A car with a loudspeaker on its roof is driving through southern Lebanon. The old man at the wheel is calling for people to join a demonstration to support their brothers and sisters who’ve occupied a tobacco company and are now being besieged by the army. His words come from the past, as he’s referring to events from 1973 – events that few remember today. Neither the protests made by the tobacco farmers from the south against the large landholders’ monopoly nor the strike for better working conditions by workers at a Beirut chocolate factory are anchored in the country’s collective memory. All recollection of this social movement was erased by the civil war and society has since been marked by deep sectarian divisions.
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Mary Jirmanus Saba Director · Karam Ghossein Cinematographer Ziad Chahoud Cinematographer
Budget $30K · First release February 11, 2017 · Produced in Lebanon
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Budget
$30,000
Production
Lebanon
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Original title
شعور أكبر من الحب
Original language
Arabic
Spoken on screen
Arabic
Release dates
Germany · February 11, 2017
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No release date listed for United States.
Argentina
April 24, 2017 · BAFICI - Buenos Aires Film Festival
India
June 16, 2017 · International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala
Kosovo
August 7, 2017 · Dokufest
Poland
August 5, 2017 · New Horizons Film Festival
South Korea
October 13, 2017 · Busan International Film Festival
Tunisia
November 7, 2017 · Carthage Film Festival
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