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Borhane Alaouié, along with Maroun Baghdadi, made a bet for Lebanese cinema to the world. Starting from Paris, in which they lived for a period of time due to the repercussions of the war in Lebanon and moving between it and Beirut, but Burhan was haunted by the Arab cause. The first: Palestine (he said: "Palestine is the one that brought me to cinema"), and he found open sponsorship from the General Foundation for Cinema in Syria, which previously opened the door to many Arab creatives and funded their projects, and with it he completed his most important tape: Kafr Kassem, about the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation.
The film was a resounding success, winning in the same year the Golden Tanit from the Carthage Film Festival, and this work remains linked to Burhan’s name throughout his cinematic career. The music of the film was composed by Walid Gholmieh, and he participated in playing the characters: Abdullah Abbasi, Ahmed Ayoub, Salim Sabry, and Shafiq Manfaluti.
Alaouié lived for a long time in Belgium. He received his film degree from INSAS in Brussels and was the first to deal with the Lebanese war that broke out in 1975 in a beautiful tape that was well-received publicly and critically, entitled: 'Beirut: the Encounter'. More notable titles are: 'It Is Not Enough for God to Be With the Poor'; 'A Message from the Time of War'; 'A Message from the Time of Banishment'; and due to his strong support for the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, he made a remarkable tape; 'Aswan and the High Dam' (1990).
The director was known for his direct opinions on everything, in cinema as in life: "I am temperamental to the bone and I never want to bother myself with work that is not in line with my convictions, and everything I filmed is a picture of my thoughts and convictions." The Jesuit University in Beirut knew him as an attractive lecturer for film students, and he spent among them, as he says: "The most enjoyable times, and I do not deny that I learned from them, as they learned from me."
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03 May 2001
After “Letter From a Time of Exile”, the director is back in Lebanon where he discovers that his dreams about his country are an illusion and that the exile in your homeland is by far the worst exile.
02 January 1987
Focusing on key Arab films produced in the last 20 years. Férid Boughedir traces the development of the film-makers' concern to produce more socially aware cinema.
02 January 1993
The second Gulf War from 1990 to 1991 represents in the collective Arab memory a turning point in regards to the Arab nationalism’s self-perception as well as a moment of deep historical and existential insecurity.
02 January 1981
Zeina is a Catholic student whose good friend Haidar, a Muslim, has always been particularly close. After a futile attempt to get together (he gets caught in traffic), they each decide to make an audio tape trying to explain, based on their own ideas, why there continues to be fighting in Lebanon now, in 1977, and why they are against it.
02 January 1978
The Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy talks about his life and work. Footage of Cairo, Gharb Assouan, New Gourna, Kom-Ombo.
30 April 1988
Alaouié presents the stories of four exiles from Beirut. Their only connection is the voice of the narrator and their situation of living in exile in Europe.
16 December 1992
This is Egypt and one of its symbols, Sad Al-Ali, the massive wonder that is the high dam of Aswan. With a first-person narrative in a soft, husky voice, the film explores the memory of the Nile Valley to tell the story of Lake Nasser and the ecological and human consequences of this construction.
27 December 2022
A time travel film incorporating truthful moments and confessions that takes us back to Beirut of the 80s, Palestine of the 50s, and dystopian Paris.
02 January 1974
On the eve of the Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, Israel declares martial law in all the occupied Arab territories without any previous notice.
08 February 2016
Adar, an old actor who loves both theater and cinema. Its character portrays a play about a shoemaker whose dream is to create a political party, the Nail Party, in order to represent the common people in the presidential election in Algeria.
06 October 1984
Filmed in Beirut in the Spring of 1984, in many ways a letter about warfront.
30 November 2007
The class struggle between loving the poor, or asking yourself an excuse to be selfish for trying to live a luxury life.
