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Souha/Our Heedless Wars

Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House

October 9, 2010

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Souha dir. Randa Chahal Sabbag, Lebanon, 2001, BetaSP, 57 mins, color, French and Arabic w/ English subtitles. In 1989 twenty-one year old Lebanese communist Souha Béchara attempted to assassinate General Antoine Lahad, who was collaborating with the Israeli Army in the south of Lebanon. Lahad survived, and Souha was arrested and imprisoned in Khiam prison, where she spent the next ten years, six in solitary confinement. The film follows the emotional homecoming in her village, revisiting Khiam prison, and meeting with fellow former prisoners. Despite her suffering, Souha is a survivor who shares her story with hope for the future, both her own and that of Lebanon. followed by Our Heedless Wars--Nos Gueres Imprudents dir. Randa Chahal Sabbag, France/Lebanon, 1995, DigiBeta, 61 mins, color, French and Arabic w/ English subtitles. Randa Chahal Sabbag began filming the then seventeen-year-old Lebanese civil war in 1976 and recording her politically active family on video in 1983. Our Heedless Wars is a thought-provoking journey of rediscovery, drawing on this material to document the filmmaker’s return home from Paris, where she lived in self-imposed political exile, to Lebanon, where many of her family remained.