Nov 1 • Screening – Rasheed by Samia Badih

Ciné-club • November 1st
Rasheed  – A documentary film by Samia Badih 

In Rasheed, Samia Badih documents the life of her late uncle Rasheed Broum who was killed, at the age of 29, in an airstrike in the city of Sidon during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 – three years before Samia was born. The airstrike hit Rasheed’s in-laws’ residence where he had taken shelter on the second night of the invasion. Thirty-one years after the tragedy, Samia goes on a quest to find out about her uncle’s story of life and death, as it is told by the friends and family who survived him and knew him best, mainly his two sisters, Rasha and Maha, and his best friend Ghassan. At the heart of the film is Samia’s relationship with her mother who has not coped well with her brother’s loss.
 
Through Rasheed’s story, the documentary takes the viewer back in time to the 1960s and ‘70s, a time when Lebanon was influenced by the rise of Arab nationalism and torn with internal politics which later broke into a civil war. Rasheed captures one of the many war stories from the southern city of Sidon, Lebanon through Badih’s own personal journey. Sidon reportedly suffered the highest casualty toll during the Israeli invasion outside of Beirut. It has been reported that the Israeli invasion that summer killed 17,500 people.

NOVEMBER FRIDAY 1 • 7PM
Limited seated capacity
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