Lebanese Director Mounia Akl on Expressing Her Truth with ‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’
Lebanese director Mounia Akl talks with PopMatters about the act of resistance in making and participating in art and her feature debut, Costa Brava, Lebanon.
Lebanese director Mounia Akl talks with PopMatters about the act of resistance in making and participating in art and her feature debut, Costa Brava, Lebanon.
Majdalani’s Beirut 2020 warns that unwillingness to enforce rules and due process lies at the heart of the problems plaguing both Lebanon and America.
Andy Warner's style of narrative in Spring Rain is evocative of those visual puzzles that require the viewer to look beyond the image in front of them, letting their eyes relax into an indirect gaze, in order for the hidden picture to reveal itself.
Naima Shalhoub finds healing waters in her new video for the single "Two (Rivers in the Desert)".
Lebanese composer Ziad Rahbani's disco masterpiece "Abu Ali" is well deserving of its Record Store Day reissue.