A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
January 1, 2000
Original Title:
Nightfall
Genres:
Documentary
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 80
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) student brigade included leftist students from Lebanon who mobilized around the struggle for the liberation of Palestine in the early 1970s. With the departure of the PLO’s armed forces from Lebanon after the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982, the brigade was disbanded. Mohamed Soueid was part of the group, and as the Lebanese civil war ended, he decided to film them and revisit their shared sites of memory, drawing a raspy-voiced portrait of defeated militants infused with poetry and generously doused in alcohol.
Assistant Director:
Fadi Ayoub
Cinematography:
Mohamed Soueid
Director:
Mohamed Soueid
Editor:
Marwan Ziadeh
Producer:
Mohamed Soueid
Writer:
Mohamed Soueid
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