Ten years later Heiny Srour Made history on Cannes with his debut “The Hour of Liberation has arrived”, which made her the first Arab woman directing a film shown at the festival, released the filmmaker his seminal 1984 classic “Leila and the wolves. “Thanks to Bam Cinemas, Sork’s inheritance gets international attention.
Bam Cinema’s screenings are now both recently restored to honor the US release of “Leila and the Wolves”, thanks to the distributor several future. Srour, which is based in Paris, will participate in the week -long driving at Bam Cinemas.
“I’m so happy to meet my American public,” Srour said in a press release. “My movies are a bridge of peace, and that’s what we need right now. Without a distributor several future, the wolves would have eaten Leila. ”
Graham Carter from several future raised: “The importance of Heiny Sork’s films cannot be underestimated. Helping to bring them to North American audiences is an honor. “
“Leila and the Wolves” is based on the Arabic heritage from oral tradition and mosaic patterns to combine fictional drama, archive films and fantasy sequences that explore the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in history during the last half secretion both in Palestine and in Libanon. The anti -colonial story -documentary hybrid function was filmed for seven years with women from Lebanon and Palestine and captured the intersectionality between the fighters that women met in occupied Palestine. The nature of Leila (Nabila Zeitouni) travels through time, from the British mandate in Palestine to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon 1982, to mix “memory and myth”, according to a press release. Rafic Ali Ahmed Stars as well.
“Leila and the Wolves” has a movie by Charley Recors and Curtis Clark, editing Eva Houdova. The film was originally produced by the British Film Institute (London), Leila Films (Paris), Ministry of Culture (Belgium), NCO and Novib (Holland).
The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 1984. The new restoration ended by CNC, Center National Du Cinéma et de L’Impa Animée, in France, and was revealed on 2024 Il Cinema Ritrovato festival in Italy.
“Leila and the Wolves” premiere on March 14 at Bam Cinemas, followed by a roll -out of views in selected us and Canadian cities including Toronto’s TIFF Theater on April 5, SPacy in Dallas on April 7, Vancouver’s Cinemathheque on April 11, 13 and 13 and 26 and the Cleveland Institute of Art on May 4. Check out the trailer below.
