Posted By
Najib
May 20, 2018 08:34
Nadine Labaki may not be the first Lebanese director to win the Jury Prize at Cannes but she is the first Lebanese female director to do so, and the first Arab filmmaker to win an official Cannes competition award in 12 years! There were so many firsts for the Lebanese & Arab Cinema at Cannes this year but the most memorable part will definitely be Nadine's speech upon receiving the Jury Prize, a speech that…
Posted By
Najib
May 18, 2018 08:57
Nadine Labaki's latest film, "Capharnaum", earned a massive 15-minute standing ovation following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and people are already favoring her for winning Cannes’ top honor on Saturday. The distribution rights to the movie were already purchased by Sony Pictures prior to the movie and we should expect "Capharnaum" to be competing for next year’s best foreign language Oscar, which would make it an awesome and unprecedented feature for Lebanese movies…
Baladi
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Baladi
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Automotive
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I posted about this story a couple of months ago but I didn’t have much info on it. As it turns out, it’s an EU-funded project that helped build a 250kWh solar farm in the ...
Art
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Cre8mania prepared a stunning 4-minute 3D Mapping show projected on the National Museum of Beirut during the 5th edition of La Nuit des Musées that took place last weekend. Check it out: ...
Baladi
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Since 2011, it feels like most of the work being done by the international community in Lebanon, has been geared towards refugees. While the refugee crisis has required a lot of support from the rest ...
