In This House (Fi Hatha al-Bayt)

In This House (Fi Hatha al-Bayt)
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Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2005
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 30 (in minutes)

Ali Hahsisho volunteered with a radical communist group affiliated with the Lebanese Resistance Front fighting the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon. From 1985 until 1991, he and some comrades occupied a house abandoned by its owners, and when they received orders to withdraw from their post, Ali left a letter to the house's owners inside a mortar shell casing he buried in their garden. More than a decade after the end of the war, the filmmaker decided to unearth the letter.

Written, directed, and cinematography by Akram Zaatari.

2005, Lebanon, 30 min


Screening: Friday, October 7, 2011, 7:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2 (Introduced by Essafi. Program length 71 min.)
Screening: Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 7:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2 (Introduced by Barrada. Program length 71 min.)
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