About a war / a film by Daniele Rugo and Abi Weaver ; a film produced by Iterations Film ; directed and produced by Daniele Rugo, Abi Weaver.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Assaad, Nassim, on-screen participant.

Bhar, Ahed, on-screen participant.

Chaftari, Assad, on-screen participant.

Rugo, Daniele, film director, film producer, editor of moving image work.

Weaver, Abi, film director, film producer.

Hirakubo, Masahiro, editor of moving image work.

Iterations Film (Firm), production company.

Collective Eye (Organization), distributor.

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Assaad, Nassim.

Bhar, Ahed.

Chaftari, Assad.

Lebanon--History--Civil War, 1975-1990.

Lebanon.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (1 hr., 24 min.) : digital, sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Iterations Film, [2019]

Language Note:

In Arabic with occasional passages in English, with English subtitles.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

digital

Summary:

The Lebanese Civil War saw 170,000 dead, 1 million displaced and 17,000 people still missing. During the conflict thousands of teenagers picked up arms to fight in a 15 years war that tore the nation apart. In 1990, the Taif agreement brought the war to a close, integrating warring parties into a power sharing government. With an amnesty pardoning all crimes against civilians and no plans to reintegrate militiamen back into society, many fighters became anonymous, silent and were left to disappear into a society ravaged by internal strife. Moving through the testimonies of Assad, a right wing Christian intelligence officer; Ahed, a Palestinian refugee fighter and Nassim, a Communist commander, About a War unpicks the personal motivations, trauma and regret of militiamen who picked up arms during the civil war. With no official account of the conflict, their testimonies build a multi-perspective picture of a crucial turning point in Lebanese history that radically transformed the Middle East. Nowadays, ex-fighters Ahed, Assad and Nassim work towards breaking cycles of violence among young people in Lebanon. While their own personal confessions delve deeper into issues of violence and politics in the Middle East, they also stand as a cautionary tale for a country that continues to be marred by inequality and sectarian divide.

Participant:

Featuring: Nassim Assaad, Ahed Bhar, Assad Chaftari.

Credits:

Film editors: Masahiro Hirakubo, Daniele Rugo.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Distributed by Collective Eye.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed December 02, 2021).

OCLC:

1288335100

Publisher Number:

ce-aaw Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.