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Release Date:
December 8, 2011
Original Title:
القطاع صفر
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Abbout Productions
Dubai Entertainment and Media Organization
Front Row Filmed Entertainment
Production Countries:
Lebanon | United Arab Emirates
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 64
Through a closed study of the notorious, now derelict district of Karantina, Sector Zero uses Karantina’s history as a metaphor for Lebanon’s own troubled past, suggesting that by denying their traumas, the Lebanese people have entered a downward spiral into the abyss that is their own collective unconscious. The film is not so much a documentation as it is an exploration into the dark corners of modern Lebanon’s collective memory in an attempt to discover how much of who we are is based largely on that part of ourselves we have chosen to forget.
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Director:
Nadim Mishlawi
Director of Photography:
Talal Khoury
Editor:
Nadim Shartouny
Music:
Nadim Mishlawi
Producer:
Georges Schoucair
Writer:
Nadim Mishlawi
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