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Grand Theater: A Tale of Beirut: Directed by Omar Naim. A documentary viewing the Lebanese Civil War, as well as it's roots and aftermath, through the eyes of an old theater. The stories of actors, directors, soldiers and civilians intersect and intertwine at the Grand Theater, giving us a vivid portrait of a city under siege.
Jul 10, 2011 · Grand Theater: A Tale of Beirut is a half hour documentary film produced and directed by Omar Naim. It examines the Lebanese civil war through the microcosm of the Grand Theater, a historic...
Jul 14, 2011 · Thirteen years ago, one of my oldest friends, Omar Naim, made a documentary film about Beirut's Grand Theatre, a landmark building that once hosted the great touring theatrical groups and musical stars of Europe and the Middle East.
The Grand Théâtre, Lebanon also known as the Grand Théâtre des Mille et Une Nuits [1] was a theatre located in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. The structure is currently unused. Overview. It was designed by Youssef Aftimos and built in the 1920s by Jaques Tabet (a poet and theater lover). The building opened in 1929.
Synopsis. A documentary viewing the Lebanese Civil War, as well as it's roots and aftermath, through the eyes of an old theater. The stories of actors,...
Jun 7, 2024 · He has made three feature fiction films and two documentaries, both about the theatre and the city of Beirut, shot nearly twenty years apart. They are being shown here together for the first time. Grand Theatre: A Tale of Beirut was his thesis film, shot in the summer of 1998, less than a decade after the end of the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War ...
During his four-year education at Emerson, Naim created a number of short films, among which figures his 1999 thesis, a 28-minute documentary titled Grand Theater: A Tale of Beirut. In this work, Naim puts the spotlight on Beirut ’s historic Grand Theater, which was torn in a violent no-man's land between two bellicose sides in the Lebanese ...
