Official competition documentaries

WE WERE COMMUNISTS ( Lebanon 2009 )

Couleur: 75’
Direction: Maher ABi SAMRA
Screenplay: Maher Abi Samra
Director of Photography: Claire Mathon
Sound: Moncef Taleb
Editing: Carine Doumit
Production: Jinane Dagher, Serge Lalou

Synopsis

Samra reconnects with “communist” comrades,linked at the same time by ideology and friendship. Four men tell their stories of the battlefield, their broken dreams and their disillusionment,. The film examines the legacy of the Lebanese Civil War and post war Lebanon.

The director:


Maher Abi Samra was born in Beirut in 1965 and completed his studies at FEMIS in Paris. He directed «Chronicle of Returning», «Aging on Sea Wave»s «Femmes du Hezbollah» «Being in Palestine».


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