Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
LEILA AND THE WOLVES
Leila wa al ziap
Synopsis
In present-day London, a Lebanese woman is staging a photography exhibition where women are the unsung heroines and martyrs of political conflict. She time-travels through the 1900s to the 1980s, wandering through real and imaginary landscapes of Lebanon and Palestine.
Synopsis
In present-day London, a Lebanese woman is staging a photography exhibition where women are the unsung heroines and martyrs of political conflict. She time-travels through the 1900s to the 1980s, wandering through real and imaginary landscapes of Lebanon and Palestine.
Our take
When Heiny Srour made this mesmeric hybrid film, to be Arabic and a woman was to be invisible twice over. Roaring back at the titular wolves—a pack of colonizers and ignorant men—the Lebanese filmmaker counters blindness with sonorous protest, and a beautiful call to the past as much as the present.