Nadine Labaki
''s (director of
Sukkar banat
) festival-favourite (Cannes, San Sebastian, Oslo and so on),
bittersweet comedy
about how our religions separate us, how violence spreads and how woman can do something against it. The answer is, according to the director, econemism.
Arabic language, english subtitles.
Christians and Muslims
lived peacefully together for years in this small Lebanese village, but animosities begin to build among the men as a result of slights and misunderstandings. The women of the village conspire to avert sectarian strife though a series of harebrained plans, none of which succeeds in slowing down the escalating spiral of violence.





When tragedy strikes, the women find themselves driven to make a
deeply personal sacrifice
for the sake of peace.





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