GB, FR, LB 1974, D, SC, E Heiny Srour, C Michel Humeau, S Jean-Louis Ughetto, P Srour Films, Print colour, DCP, 64 min, arab. OV +engl. SUB
„My French cameraman Michel Humeau and the soundman Jean-Louis Ughetto are heroes: the first carried a ten kilogram sync camera, and the second a twelve kilogram Nagra walking 800 kilometers through deserts and high mountains under the bombing of the Royal Air Force. It’s thanks to Michel that I was able to give a voice to the voiceless, for the first time in the Middle East, due to the use of sync camera. [...] However, both had a very male dominated outlook and were, in those days, blind and often unsympathetic to the avant-garde feminism of the Front." (Heiny Srour interviewed by Mary Jirmanus Saba, Screenslate, 2019)
| Acronyms | |
|---|---|
| amer. | American English |
| b/w | Black and white |
| OV | Original version |
| SUB | Subtitles |
| +SUB | electronic live subtitling (below the image) |
| INT | Intertitles |
| Countries | |
|---|---|
| AT | Austria |
| FRG | Federal Republic of Germany (historic) |
| BLR | Belarus |
| DE | Germany |
| CAN | Canada |
| GDR | German Democratic Republic (historic) |
| EGY | Egypt |
| FR | France |
| GB | Great Britain |
| URY | Uruguay |
| BRA | Brasil |
| SWE | Sweden |
| UKR | Ukraine |
| PL | Poland |
| IDN | Indonesia |
| PRT | Portugal |
| HRV | Croatia |
| ECU | Ecuador |
| HUN | Hungary |
| AUS | Australia |
| IT | Italy |
| MEX | Mexico |
| IND | India |
Followed by a conversation with the director
Heiny Srour was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1945 She lived, worked and studied there. BA Sociology at the ESL (École Supérieure des Lettres/French University of Beirut). PHD research in Social Anthropology in the Sorbonne in France under the guidance of Maxime Rodinson. She worked as teacher and journalist in Lebanon. She was also a film critic in Paris. Her film THE HOUR OF LIBERATION HAS ARRIVED was the first arab film by a woman to be selected at the Cannes Film Festival.
