Tripoli, 25 May 2013:
An award-winning Lebanese film about a . . .[restrict]young girl’s experience of love, secrecy and an arranged marriage, will be shown at Tripoli’s Art House tonight.
Directed by Randa Chahal Sabag and starring Flavia Bechara and Maher Bsaibes, Kite tells the story of a Lebanese girl, Lamia, who is forced to marry her cousin, although she is secretly in love with someone else.
Lamia’s village is in Lebanon, while her cousin’s was annexed by Israel. The villages are separated by a no-man’s land and communicate with each other via megaphones and binoculars. The only things that cross this no-man’s land are brides and coffins.
On the day of her wedding Lamia goes to join her husband’s family. She leaves behind her little brother, her school, her paper plane, her mother and her past. However, she doesn’t take to married life, and dreams of another love and another life.
Kite is in Arabic with English subtitles.
Tonight’s film-screening is organised by the Arete Cinema Club. Cinemas and theatres in Libya were closed for decades and the cinema club aims to reintroduce films to the community.
The showing of Kite starts at 6 pm on Saturday 25 May. The Art House is on Al-Sekka Road in Tripoli. [/restrict]
