Beirut: The Encounter
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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. Zeina is about to leave for the United States and Haidar is to meet her at the airport, where they will exchange their tapes. Alas, fate intervenes because when he arrives early at the airport, he is harassed by someone looking to prey on gullible refugees and he gets so angry that he grabs a taxi out of there, throwing his tape away as he does so. When Zeina arrives and realizes he is not there, she is broken-hearted.
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Borhane Alaouié Director · Ahmed Beydoun Writer Charles Van Damme Cinematographer
First release January 1, 1981 · Produced in Belgium, Lebanon, Tunisia · Production Ciné Libre, SATPEC
Production
Etablissement Arabe de Production Cinématographique (EAPC)
Production
Ciné Libre
Production
SATPEC
Production
Belgium · Lebanon · Tunisia
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Original title
بيروت اللقاء
Original language
Arabic
Spoken on screen
Arabic
Release dates
Italy · January 1, 1981
Venice Film Festival
Lebanon · January 2, 1981
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
March 16, 1983
Germany
February 1, 1982 · Berlin International Film Festival
Indonesia
October 8, 2023 · Limited theatrical · Madani International Film Festival
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