Beirut: The Encounter

Synopsis

Zeina (Nadine Acoury) is a Catholic student whose good friend Haidar (Haithem El Amine), 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. In a strange twist at the end, the cast and the director (Borhane Alaouie) have a discussion as to whether or not the character of Haidar should kill himself.

Main Cast

Haithem el Amine

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Nadine Acoury

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Najoua Haydar

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Houcem Sabbah

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Renée Dick

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Raafet Haydar

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Borhane Alaouié
Writing	Writer	Ahmed Beydoun
Production	Producer	Hassen Daldoul
Camera	Director of Photography	Alexis Grivas Charles Van Damme
Editing	Editor	Eliane Du Bois
Art	Art Direction	Jean-Louis Mainguy
	Set Decoration	Abdallah Kahil
Sound	Sound	Henri Morelle
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