Don't miss this chance to see Lebanon's official submission for the Best International Feature Film Academy Award—which had its world premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival—before its theatrical release, and hear from director Oualid Mouaness!

This screening is a co-presentation of the LMU School of Film and Television and the LMU Academy of Catholic Thought and Imagination (ACTI).

1982

Written and directed by Oualid Mouaness // Produced by Alix Madigan, Oualid Mouaness, Myriam Sassine, Georges Schoucair, and Christopher Tricarico // Starring Nadine Labaki, Mohamad Dalli, Ghassan Maalouf, Aliya Khalidi, Rodrigue Sleiman, Gia Madi, Lelya Harkous, Saeed Serhan, and Zeina Demelero

 In June of 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon, which was already reeling from its ongoing civil war. In his feature debut, director Oualid Mouaness revisits this cataclysmic moment in Lebanese history through a different lens. At a private school on the outskirts of Beirut, as the geopolitical conflict inches closer and closer, 11-year-old Wissam (Mohamad Dalli) is more intent on finding the courage to tell his classmate he loves her.

For a dreamer like Wissam, who is more likely to be drawing than playing football, it's hard to comprehend the gravity of the impending violence. But for his teachers, Yesmine (Nadine Labaki) and Joseph (Rodrigue Sleiman), the jets in the sky signal something greater.

As they try to mask their growing fears for the sake of the students, they also attempt to hide the fractures in their relationship, as they fall on different sides of the political divide. Mouaness, who also wrote the script, splits the film between these two perspectives — that of the adults and that of the children — to explore the complexities of love and war.

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