Nadi Lekol Nass and the Sursock Museum will be presenting on Thursday 6 October at 7pm, the newly restored documentary The Freedom Giver produced in 1987 by Iraqi filmmaker and editor Kais al-Zubaidy.

The Freedom Giver
Dir. Kais al-Zubaidy, 1987
90', Lebanon 

The film depicts the many Lebanese and Palestinian Resistance acts carried out by different political and islamic factions against the Israeli occupation in Lebanon. When Israel succeeded in expelling the Palestinian Resistance in Lebanon in 1982, the Lebanese Resistance grew in Beirut and then spread all over Lebanon, leading to the outbreak of the Intifada in Palestine. The documentary film relies on sound and visual material including rare photographic images and scenes from cinematic films, coupled with music and songs from Marcel Khalife, as well as Ziad Rahbani’s famous song If he stands South, he stands with his children performed here by artist Sami Hawat.

In Arabic with English subtitles.