Once Upon a Time in Beirut

Overview

Two young girls of the war generation, Yasmin and Leila, are in search of Beirut. When they meet an elderly film enthusiast with a secret store of Lebanese films, they persuade him to screen his collection for them. So begins an initiation into the myths and images of Beirut, but the girls want cold figures and facts, war babies indifferent to the memories evoked.

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Cast

Michèle Tyan

Yasmine

Myrna Maakaron

Leila

Khaled El Sayed

Driver

Emile Accar

Monsieur Farouk

Ziad Makhoul

Gardner

Pascal Faugeras

Officer

Pierre Chamassian

Abou El Abed