Leila wa al ziap
1984
Synopsis
In present-day London, a Lebanese woman is staging a photography exhibition where women are the unsung heroines and martyrs of political conflict. She time-travels through the 1900s to the 1980s, wandering through real and imaginary landscapes of Lebanon and Palestine.
Editorial
When Heiny Srour made this mesmeric hybrid film, to be Arabic and a woman was to be invisible twice over. Roaring back at the titular wolves—a pack of colonizers and ignorant men—the Lebanese filmmaker counters blindness with sonorous protest, and a beautiful call to the past as much as the present.
