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| 00.00.08 | Title - “I Remember Lebanon”
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| 00.00.13 | Landscape stills |
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| 00.00.22 | Car photo+ other stills | These are the last images I have of Beirut – pictures I took from the airport, as I waited to board the flight, one week before the first bombs fell, on this runway…
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| 00.00.33 | Looking out of airplane window | The mountains, so peaceful then, now look over a city in ruins.
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| 00.00.44 | Anas in car | Anas speaking: Hello, I am on my way to Jayeta. My name is Anas Abou Hosn
VO: This is Anas – my 12 year old brother. He wants to be a filmmaker.
Anas: I’ll be your host guest for today
VO: He is now stuck in Lebanon. He only holds a Lebanese passport, and therefore his future is not a priority… no one is trying to evacuate him to safety… (footage shot by Anas)
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| 00.01.07 | Streets | Anas: here we’re gonna go on a journey that is beautiful and full of surprises
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| 00.01.28 | Anas in car | Anas: we are now heading home from our very nice trip to the beach
Zeina: which you dind’t film
Anas: oh my God! I forgot to film!
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| 00.01.45 | Marianne’s stills | This is Marianne – my best friend, a tv presenter, who never left Lebanon because she had faith that it was again becoming ‘the paradise of the east’ (footage of Marianne)
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| 00.01.56 | Marianne in street at night | Marianne: I swallowed my nail Zeina: show me the others
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| 00.02.18 | Inside night club | VO: this is Lila Braun where we drank and danced VO: this the basement where we danced some more |
| 00.02.46 | Band | COM
One of Lebanon’s new bands in the New Government, and this is their latest single
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| 00.02.54 | Zeid | VO. This is Zeid Zeid: the concept of spraying a bomb in Lebanon is like a wake up call.
VO: he had just set up a rock band and an indie record label. They were just set to tour the world… (footage of Zeid)
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| 00.03.25 | The beach |
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| 00.03.23 | Habiba, Mona and dog walking on the beach | VO: These are Habiba and Mona, and Sour their dog – they had a little guest house by the beach in Tyre. They protected this beach, where Green Turtles came every year to lay their eggs…
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| 00.03.54 | The sea | VO: This is the sea… the sea… the sea… the sea…
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| 00.04.14 | Zeina in car | VO: These are my memories – too bad they are going to be only memories. This is how I remember Lebanon, and how I will always remember Lebanon.
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| 00.04.29 | Still of war and ruins | VO: But I will also remember how everyone stood by and watched my family, my friends and my Lebanon burn…
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| 00.04.39 | landscape | VO: The last time Lebanon was on the news, it was during the civil war. And now, another war, and we’re in the headlines again. And the 15 years in between? The years of peace, and happiness, and beauty and ambition and hopes for the future?... Nobody was interested… it wasn’t a story…
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| 00.05.2 | Stills of sea, etc | VO: So you have never met this land, or these people before…
VO: Perhaps if you had, you would now care if they live or die…
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| Collection of Stills |
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| Still photo of Anas | ‘Anas, my mum and Dad managed to cross safely to Syria’
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| Still photo of Marianne | ‘Marianne is in Beirut helping refugees’ |
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| Still photo of Zeid | ‘Zeid is in Jordan. His future is uncertain.’ |
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| Still photo of Habiba and Mona | ‘We have no idea what happened to Habiba & Mona…’ |
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| Still of Sour – the dog | ‘Only that their area was one of the worst hit…’ |
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| Still of polluted sea | ‘This is what the sea looks like now’ |
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| CREDITS | directed by zeina aboul hosn edited by mia bittar executive producer paul eedle
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| Still of the beach at Sour |
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| camera zeina aboul hosn anas aboul hosn rob hardy marianne sargi farah dakhlallah jihad samhat
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| music ziad sahhab the new government lumi blend
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