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Program guide The Lebanese Film Festival Association is a NSW registered non-profit organisation, established in 2011 to provide a dedicated platform for the showcasing of Lebanese cinema in Australia. Since its first edition in 2012, the Lebanese Film Festival has become a growing foreign film festival that attracts over 3,000 patrons per year. Through the Festival, the Association hope to challenge the perception of Lebanon, its people, its culture and its traditions by providing an avenue for Australian society to hear the stories of Lebanon and its large diaspora through the art of film. By the end of our fifth edition this year, we would have screened 130 Lebanese films, ranging from student short films, to internationally acclaimed feature films. The Lebanese Film Festival, being based in Bankstown, also seeks to maintain and grow its local presence and contribute to the city becoming a centre of the arts and culture. This contribution will allow greater access to foreign film for the Greater Western Sydney region whilst also drawing Sydneysiders to experience the great centres of Sydney’s west. As always, we invite all of you, sponsors, patrons and the public, to share with us your feedback, ideas, inspirations and any other comments which would help our team grow and improve. 3 Dear Festival attendees, It is with great excitement that I welcome you to our fifth edition of the St.George Bank Lebanese Film Festival. What was once a small dream, has now turned into an annual event drawing thousands of audiences to Bankstown, Central Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide. This year, we have another exciting line up of Lebanese short, documentary and feature films, with personal favourites being 3000 Nights and A Time in Life, set in my favourite Lebanese coastal town of Batroun. This year, we’ve seen a shift away from Lebanese diaspora films, with a strong contingent of films coming from Lebanon itself. It is great to see the ongoing growth in Lebanon’s film industry amid the challenging realities of Lebanese life. As the country of four million citizens accommodates two million refugees, and a government and economy in paralysis, it is heart warming and encouraging to know that there is ongoing investment in film, with Lebanon’s profile at the Cannes Film Festival and other international film festivals continuously growing. It is with great pride that I again welcome audiences from across Sydney to Bankstown. I invite you to make the most of your Festival experience and sample the great food and entertainment offerings also available in our great city. Enjoy your Festival experience! Camille Lattouf Director, Lebanese Film Festival 4 - Lebanese Film Festival 2016 I find it hard to believe that this is the fifth year of the Lebanese Film Festival and my association with the festival over the past four years continues to bring me joy. The team of Julia, Jessica and Camille is inspiring. Their love of Film and their dedication to enhancing our knowledge of Lebanese culture and its people is something I personally am deeply grateful for. We live in a troubled world and its extremely important to be reminded that all nations share the same humanity and needs and desires. Our relationships with friends, families and communities is what sustains us and film reminds us of this. Lebanon is experiencing very difficult times but its filmmakers continue to flourish and share their stories with the world. Central to Bankstown since its inception, the Lebanese Film Festival continues to be an important part of its cultural life, bringing outsiders to the area and providing entertainment to its own. I am proud to be the Patron of the Lebanese Film Festival. It has enhanced my life. Bryan Brown AM Patron, Lebanese Film Festival 5 2016 Schedule Date Session Time Venue Film and Duration Friday 19 Aug. Session 1 7:00PM Bankstown Sports Theatre A Time in a Life - 27 mins Session 1 Bankstown Sports Theatre Under the Robes - 20 mins Session 1 Bankstown Sports Theatre Congratulations - 22 mins Saturday 20 Aug Session 2 6:00PM Hoyts Cinema Bankstown Cash Flow 2 - 100 mins Session 3 9:00PM Hoyts Cinema Bankstown Go Home - 98 mins Sunday 21 Aug. Session 4 1:00PM Bankstown Sports Theatre 12 Angry Lebanese - 78 mins Session 5 3:45PM Bankstown Sports Theatre Scheherazade’s Diary - 78mins Session 6 6:30PM Bankstown Sports Theatre The Broken Winds - 90 mins Session 7 9:15PM Bankstown Sports Theatre A Time to Rest - 66 mins Thursday 25 Aug. Session 8 7:00PM Hoyts Cinema Broadway 3000 Nights - 103 mins Friday 26 Aug. Session 9 7:00PM Hoyts Cinema Bankstown Very Big Shot - 107 mins Saturday 27 Aug. Session 10 6:00PM Hoyts Cinema Bankstown Chi Yom Rah Fell - 99 mins Session 11 9:00PM Hoyts Cinema Bankstown Tramontane - 105 mins Sunday 28 Aug. Session 12 12:30PM Bankstown Arts Centre Shreds - 11 mins Session 12 Bankstown Arts Centre Grand Ecart - 15 mins Session 12 Bankstown Arts Centre Fade Out - 19 mins Session 13 2:00PM Bankstown Arts Centre Twice Upon a Time - 74 mins Session 14 3:30PM Bankstown Arts Centre Cupids - 12 mins Session 14 Bankstown Arts Centre Finding My Lebanon - 20 mins Session 14 Bankstown Arts Centre Sarab - 10 mins Session 15 4:50PM Bankstown Arts Centre A Stor of Emigration - 24 mins Session 16 5:45PM Bankstown Arts Centre Home Sweet Home - 60 mins Sunday 28 Aug. Session 17 7:45PM Bankstown Sports Theatre I Say Dust - 14 mins Session 17 Bankstown Sports Theatre The Prophet - Gary Tarn - 75 mins Thursday 1 1 Session 18 7:00PM Bankstown Sports Theatre The Prophet Animation - 85 mins Session 19 9:30PM Bankstown Sports Theatre Jamil a Flying Soul - 60 mins Friday 2 Sept. Session 20 7:00PM Hoyts Cinema Bankstown Chi Yom Rah Fell - 99 mins Saturday 3 Sept. Session 21 6:00PM Hoyts Cinema Bankstown 3000 Nights - 103 mins Session 22 9:00PM Hoyts Cinema Bankstown Halal Love (and Sex) - 94 mins 6 - Lebanese Film Festival 2016 7 GO HOME Director:Nadine Naous | Language: French/English/Arabic Year: 2014 | Country: France/ Suisse/ Belgique | Genre: Drama Runtime: 98min Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Maximilien Seweryn, François Nour, Mirielle Maalouf, Julia Kassar Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she comes back to Lebanon, she realizes she’s a foreigner in her own country. But there’s still a place she calls home: an abandoned house in ruins, haunted by the presence of her grandfather who disappeared mysteriously during the civil war. Something happened in this house. Something violent. Nada is a young woman searching for the truth and discovering herself. Session Times and Venue Saturday 20 August Venue: Hoyts Cinema Bankstown Time: 9:00pm 8 - Lebanese Film Festival 2016 CHI YOM RAH FELL Director:Layal M. Rajha | Language: Arabic (with English subtitles) Year: 2015 | Country: Lebanon | Genre: Drama, comedy, romance Runtime:116min Cast: Adel Karam, Pierre Dagher, Lorraine Kodeih, Joy Karam, Elham Abi Rached After serving his sentence in Carandiru, one of the world’s most notorious prisons, Tarek (Adel Karam) sets out to create a new life for himself in Brazil - a life like any normal person - yet he is still unsatisfied. An urge to finish what is not yet complete drives him back to Lebanon. “Chi Yom Rah Fell”, is a Lebanese Social Drama, which depicts how corrupt we can become when our lives revolve around buying our happiness and those around us with money. Session Times and Venue Saturday 27 August Friday 2 September Venue: Hoyts Cinema Bankstown Venue: Hoyts Cinema, Bankstown Time: 6:00pm Time: 7.00pm 9 HALAL LOVE (AND SEX) Director:Layal M. Rajha | Language: Arabic (with English subtitles) Year: 2015 | Country: Lebanon Genre: Drama, romance, comedy - Themes of Sexual references, mature language Runtime: 94 mins Cast: Darine Hamze, Rodrigue Sleiman, Mirna Moukarzel, Ali Sammoury, Hussein Mokaddem., Zeinab Hind Khadra, Fadia Abi Chahine,Berlin Badr and Christy Bared. Four tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules. Session Times and Venue Closing Night – Saturday 3 September Venue: Hoyts Cinema Bankstown Time: 9:00pm 10 - Lebanese Film Festival 2016 3000 NIGHTS Director:Layal M. Rajha | Language: Arabic and Hebrew (with English subtitles) Year: 2015 | Countries: Lebanon/Palestine /France/Jordan/UAE & Qatar Genre: Drama - Themes of violence, drug use Runtime:143 mins Cast: Maisa Abd El Hadi, Nadera Omran, Karim Saleh Inspired by a true story and shot in a real prison, 3000 Nights tells the story of a newlywed Palestinian schoolteacher who is falsely arrested and incarcerated in an Israeli prison where she gives birth to her son. Through her struggle to raise her child behind bars, the film traces a young mother’s journey of hope, resilience and survival against all odds. Session Times and Venue Thursday 25 August Closing Night – Saturday 3 September Venue: Hoyts Cinema Broadway Venue: Hoyts Cinema Bankstown Time: 7:00pm Time: 6:00pm 11 VERY BIG SHOT Director:Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya | Language: Arabic (with English subtitles) Year: 2015 | Country: Lebanon Genre: Action, Drama - Themes of violence, references to drug use, references to war Runtime:107 mins Cast: Alain Saadeh, Wissam Fares, Fouad Yammine, Alexandra Kahwagi, Tarek Yaacoub Intending to smuggle drugs across the borders, a small-time Lebanese drug- dealer slyly manipulates public opinion with the help of an underrated filmmaker. Session Times and Venue Friday 26 August Venue: Hoyts Cinema Bankstown Time: 7:00pm 12 - Lebanese Film Festival 2016 ACS Print Ad - Lebanese