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 colonial, male-dominated version of history. Leila (Nabila Zeitouni), a Lebanese woman living in London, travels across time and space to explore the collective memory of Arab women in Palestine and Lebanon and their hidden roles in historical events.
Up Next in Two Revolutionary Films by Heiny Srour
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The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived
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...
