Kite ( French: Le Cerf-volant , Arabic. طيّارة من ورق ) - 2003 Lebanese film directed by Randa Chahal Sabag . It tells of a 16-year-old Lebanese girl who fell in love with an Israeli soldier, but she is forced to marry her cousin. Kite flying became the most successful Sabag movie by critics and commercially, Sabag died in 2008. [1]
| Kite | |
|---|---|
| Le cerf-volant | |
 | |
| Genre | drama melodrama |
| Producer | Randa Chahal Sabag |
| Author script | Randa Chahal Sabag |
| In the main cast | Flavia Bejara Meher Baysibes Randa Azmar |
| Operator | Dominic Brenger Alain Levent |
| Composer | Ziad Rahbani |
| Duration | 80 min |
| A country |  Lebanon |
| Tongue | |
| Year | 2003 |
| IMDb | ID 0377610 |
Content
Story
The film takes place in the Lebanese village of Deir Mimas near the border of the territories temporarily occupied by Israel . The 16-year-old Lebanese girl Lamia ( Flavia Behara ) lives here with her family, her relatives promise to give her in marriage to their cousin Sami (Edmond Haddad), who lives on the Israeli side. Due to the inability to cross the border and minefields, relatives on both sides communicate through megaphones, so the Israeli soldier Yousef (Meher Bsaybes), who serves on the border tower, learns a lot about Lamia, who also often launches a kite with her younger brother very close to the border. Watching each other only at a distance, they fall in love with each other.
The very ending of the film looks surreal, and therefore can be interpreted in different ways.
Cast
- Flavia Behara - Lamia
- Meher Bsaybes - Youssef
- Edmond Haddad - Themselves
- Randa Azmar - Amira
- Reni Dick - Mabrook
- Julia Kassar - Jamile
Awards and nominations
- Global Lens ( Global Film Initiative ), New York , 2008 [2]
- Prix de la bande Sonore , Bastia , 2004
- Prix de TV5 , Belgium , 2004
- Silver Lion - Special Jury Prize , 60th Venice Film Festival, 2003
- Prix de la Lanterne Magique , 60th Venice Film Festival, 2003
- Prix de la paix- Gillo Pontecorvo , 60th Venice Film Festival, 2003
- Prix international de la musique et du film , Auxerre , 2003
Links
- " Kite ” on the Internet Movie Database