Heiny Srour Classic gets our release
Ten years after Heiny Srour at the Cannes Festival with her first appearance, “The Hour of Liberation”, which made her the first Arab woman to direct a film presented at the festival, the director released her classic “Leila and The Wolves”. “Now, thanks to BAM Cinemas, the Srour legacy acquires international attention.
BAM Cinemas will examine both newly restored films to honor the American version of “Leila and The Wolves”, thanks to the distributor many future contracts. SROR, which is based in Paris, will attend the week -long tour of BAM Cinemas.
“I am pleased to meet an American audience,” Sri Sri said in a press statement. “My films are a bridge of peace, and this is what we need now. Without a distributor of several future decades, the wolves had ate Laila.”
“It is not possible to reduce the importance of Heiny Srour films. Help in bringing them to North American fans is an honor,” Graham Carter added from many futures.
“Leila and The Wolves” depends on the Arab heritage of oral traditions and the mosaic pattern to combine fictional drama, archival shots, and imagination series that explore the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in history throughout the past half in both in Palestine and in Lebanon. The anti -documentary hybrid feature was filmed for seven years with women from Lebanon and Palestine, as it acquired the intersection of the struggles facing women in occupied Palestine. Laila (Nabila Zaitouni), over time, travels from the British mandate of Palestine to the Israeli invasion in 1982, to mixing “memory and legend”, according to a press statement. Rafic Ali Ahmed also stars.
“Leila and the Wolves” is characterized by filming by Charley Recors and Curtis Clark, which is editorial by Eva Houdova. The film was originally produced by the British Film Institute (London), Lila Films (Paris), the Ministry of Culture (Belgium), NCO and Novib (Netherlands).
The film was first shown at the Venice International Film in 1984. The new restoration was completed by CNC, National Cinéma et de l’Mage, in France, and was unveiled at the IL Cinema Ritrovato 2024 festival in Italy.
“Leila and the Wolves” for the first time on March 14 in BAM Cinemas, followed by a set of performances in American and Canadian cities including Tif Toronto Theater on April 5, Spassasi in Dallas on April 7, Vancouver’s Cinematheque on April 11, 13 and 26. , And the Cleveland Institute of Arts on May 4. Check the trailer below.
