Films by Oscar-nominated Lebanese directors Nadine Labaki and Ziad Doueiri are to be screened in the Middle East to raise money for the Red Cross following the devastating explosion in Beirut on Aug.
4. The Beirut Relief Screenings is an initiative by Middle East distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment and its partner the Kuwait National Cinema Company together with the UAE arthouse cinema Cinema Akil, where the screenings will take place.
West Beirut, Doueiri's 1998 feature debut set in 1975 during Lebanon's devastating civil war, will be shown alongside Where Do We Go Now?, Labaki's 2011 comedic drama set in a Lebanese village where the local women go to extreme measures to stop their husbands from warring.
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