WEST BEYROUTH
Lebanon-France

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     Beirut, April 13, 1975. The first day of the Lebanese civil war. The passengers in a Palestine bus are massacred by the militia. Tarek and Omar, two teenagers who live in West Beirut, on the Moslem side, witness all. Christians control East Side Beirut - a geographical situation that is the mark of a country and a people divided.

     Tarek and Omar try to ignore what has happened and amuse themselves in the city streets, since school has been closed because of the fighting. Together with a Christian girl, they survive the first year of the war and discover love and sex as they wander over the district in search of adventure. They make friends with all of the neighborhood and of the militia and film all they see with a Super-8, to make the battle-field into a recreation play ground.

     Little by little, however, they are involved by violence and lose ground to religious battle and conflict. A knavish tale where adolescence is threatened by war.

   
 
DireCtor : Ziad Doueiri
Screemplay : Ziad Doueiri
Cinematographer : Ricardo Jacques Gale
Edition : Dominique Marcombe, Ulirke Lamb
Cast : Rami Doueiri, Mohamad Chamas, Rola Al Amin, Carmen Lebbos
Production : 3B Productions 70 rue d'Assas, 75006 Paris, France Tel.: 33 1 45 48 44 75 Fax: 33 1 45 49 17 85 La Spet/ Art, Douri Films (Lebanon), Ciné Libre (Belgium), Exposed Film Productions As (Norwegian)
World Sales : FPI 5 rue Richepanse, 75008 Paris, France Tel.: 33 1 4296 0220 Fax: 33 1 4020 0551
  Col., 90 min., 1998
 

Born in 1963 and lived in the Lebanon until 1983 when Beirut was at the height of a civil war. He studied cinema in San Diego, in the United States, and in UCLA, where he made some short films in Super-8 and 16mm. A cameraman by profession, he divides his time between France and the U.S. He worked as camera assistant and as second unit cameraman in several films by Quentin Tarantino, including Reservoir Dog, (selection for the 16th Mostra), Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown. Inspired in his own life, West Beyrouth is his first film.