Heritages
Lebanon
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2013
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Color
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90 min
This directory compiles the glossaries from all editions of Cines del Sur: eleven already held and the twelfth currently underway. It serves as a living memory of the festival, its films, guests, sections, and spaces for reflection on the cinemas of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab world. Here you can trace the evolution of its programming, rediscover filmmakers, and follow the thematic threads that have defined Cines del Sur's identity as a meeting point for cultures, perspectives, and ways of understanding cinema from the Global South.
When Philippe Aractingi was forced to leave Lebanon for the third time in July 2006, he became aware of all the ancestors who, for five generations, had been forced to follow the same path, fleeing wars and massacres. In search of his roots, Aractingi revisits the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of Israel, and the Lebanese civil war. With a radical approach, the filmmaker experiments by intertwining sequences specifically shot for the project with a large number of archival materials that blend personal video diaries, family photographs, and Super 8 footage. In his narrative about exile, memory, and transmission, Philippe Aractingi offers us a proposal full of emotion and honesty.
Technical Details
Direction:
Philippe Aractingi
Cinematography:
Wassim Nohra, Elie Haswani, Nidal Abdul Khalek, Philippe Aractingi, Rémi Mazet
Music:
René Aubry
Language:
Arabic and French
Production:
Diane Aractingi, Philippe Aractingi, Marc Irmer
Art Direction:
Roland Ascheid, Sofia Moussa
Sound:
Mouhab Chanesa, Frédéric Dabo
Subtitles:
English and Spanish
Screenplay:
Diane Aractingi, Philippe Aractingi
Editing:
Christine Safi L.E.A., Deena Charara, Maria Malek, Philippe Aractingi
Cast:
Philippe Aractingi (Philippe / Colonel Goumy), Diane Aractingi (Diane / Margueritte Goumy), Luc Aractingi (Luc / little Philippe), Mathieu Aractingi (Mathieu / little Ernest), Eve Aractingi (Eve / little Wadiaa / little Diane), Andree Sultan (Andree / Mom Wadiaa)
Director
Philippe Aractingi
Of French-Lebanese origin, he was born in Beirut in 1964, the city where he grew up. A self-taught filmmaker, he has made over forty films worldwide, ranging from reports and documentaries to more personal features. Aractingi, a humanist, lived in France for twelve years before returning to his native Lebanon to make Bosta, the first post-war musical. The film, which was a great success in Lebanon and throughout the Arab world, premiered in over twenty countries and was selected to represent Lebanon at the 2006 Academy Awards. In July of that same year, when war once again devastated his country, Philippe Aractingi, in the heat of the moment, filmed his second feature, Under the Bombs, which won the Gold Award for Best Feature Film at the Dubai International Film Festival and the EIUC Award at the Venice Film Festival. Heritages is Aractingi's third film.
