Mounia Akl’s debut feature film “Costa Brava, Lebanon” is valiant filmmaking. Using the beauty of cinema to show the destruction of man’s cruelty to the environment is not just effective — it’s ...
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A lovingly eccentric family's alternative lifestyle is threatened when a landfill is zoned right next to their rural Lebanese idyll. Dealing with an issue that locates it sometime during the 2015 ...
Lebanese multihyphenate Nadine Labaki’s most recent directorial effort, the Oscar-nominated “Capernaum,” shed light on Beirut’s desperation before her city was blasted last year by one of the biggest ...
An off-the-grid Lebanese family is trashed (literally) by the enduring misfortunes of their homeland in Monia Akl's fiction-feature debut. By Keith Uhlich Lebanese director Mounia Akl’s compelling, if ...
The Toronto International Film Festival, the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) and the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema (NETPAC) have named their award winners for ...
Lebanese film Costa Brava has scored one of the major wins, Audience Award, at the 65th edition of the BFI London Film Festival that took place between 6 and 17 October. Directed and co-written by ...
This review of “Costa Brava, Lebanon” was first published July 14, 2022, before it opened in New York City. Mounia Akl’s debut feature film “Costa Brava, Lebanon” is valiant filmmaking. Using the ...
Lebanese film Costa Brava has scored one of the major wins, Audience Award, at the 65th edition of the BFI London Film Festival that took place between 6 and 17 October. Directed and co-written by ...