Two Revolutionary Films by Heiny Srour

Two Revolutionary Films by Heiny Srour

2 Episodes

Spotlighting the role of women in Arab revolutionary movements, the extraordinary films of Lebanese director Heiny Srour are long overdue for rediscovery. For THE HOUR OF LIBERATION HAS ARRIVED, Srour weathered the dangers of an active conflict zone to document an Omani anticolonialist uprising in which women were instrumental. And in her singular, formally free-flowing feature LEILA AND THE WOLVES, Srour journeys through the Lebanese and Palestinian liberation movements of the twentieth century to show the strength and centrality of women in the key political struggles of their time.

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Two Revolutionary Films by Heiny Srour

2 Episodes

  • Leila and the Wolves
    1:34:50
    Leila and the Wolves
    Episode 1

    Leila and the Wolves

    Episode 1

    Directed by Heiny Srour • 1984 • Palestine, Lebanon
    Starring Nabila Zeitouni, Samar Samy, Rafik Ali Ahmad

    Drawing on the Arab tradition of “The Thousand and One Nights,” LEILA AND THE WOLVES combines fictional drama, archival footage, fantasy sequences, mosaic pattern, and more to counter the co...

  • The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived
    1:08:57
    The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived
    Episode 2

    The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived

    Episode 2

    Directed by Heiny Srour • 1974 • France, Lebanon, United Kingdom

    In the late 1960s, the region of Dhofar in Oman rose up against the British-backed Sultanate in a democratic, Leninist guerrilla revolution. Director Heiny Srour and her team crossed five hundred miles of desert and mountains by fo...

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