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Film: In the Shadows of the City
 New Asia Cinema: Arab Cinema Panorama


Wednesday, September 6, 2006
 Room 137 Isenberg School of Management   7:30 pm
Free and open to the public
 Director: Jean Chamoun 2000, 102 minutes Arabic with English subtitles. Official Selection for the 2002 Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
To escape civil war between religious factions, a Lebanese family moves from the countryside to Beirut, but find themselves caught in an equally dangerous situation. Using archival footage, director Jean Khalil Chamoun conveys the struggles the teen-age protagonist and his family must confront in war-torn Beirut. By creating a harrowing overview of the conflict that left his country in physical and moral disarray, the filmmaker takes a more in-depth look at the underlying factors of the Lebanese Civil War.
"'In the Shadows of the City' skillfully depicts the ravages of war on a vastly personal level." --IslamOnline
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