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Women Beyond Borders by Jean Chamoun

The film explores the lives of three pioneering Palestinian women, who each in their own way broke the boundaries that society, history, and politics placed before them.

2004 | 58min
Language: Arabic with English subtitles.

This film is screened in the framework of the Jean Chamoun month at Dar El-Nimer, organised in partnership with Nadi Lekol Nas.

Jean Chamoun is among the most prominent Lebanese directors who are devoted to documentary cinema and human causes. Chamoun belongs to a generation of filmmakers who created a dramatic change in the pathway of cinema in Lebanon and whose rise occurred with the start of the Lebanese Civil War. He directed and produced with Mai Masri several films which won many international prizes and were aired on more than a hundred television channels around the world.