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Lebanon’s Crisis Weary Filmmakers Talk Impact Of Escalating Israel-Hezbollah Conflict


Lebanon’s Crisis Weary Filmmakers Brace For Worst In Escalating Israeli-Hezbollah Conflict

The upscale district has been spared the relentless Israeli bombardments that have pounded Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon and Beirut since late September, but at an airstrike in the neighboring area of Basta last Thursday killed at least 22 people and wounded 117 others . He says the Lebanese film industry has been in trouble since the financial crisis of 2019, which brought together the perfect storm of the country’s foreign debt default, currency devaluation and the collapse of the banking sector as people rushed to withdraw deposits Chakra fears the ongoing pressures could destroy one of the most traditionally creative, liberal and politically daring film and TV cultures in the Middle East, where writers and directors regularly used to pushed boundaries.

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