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‘Cinema al Fouad’ festival to promote LGBT community
24-6-2019
The French Institute of Beirut today launched the unique ‘Cinema al Fouad’ film festival in support of the struggles of MEEM LGBT community in Lebanon and to highlight the individual day-to-day sufferings of homosexuals and transgender persons. The event is organized in cooperation with human rights associations, including Human Rights Watch, Legal Agenda, the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality and Mosaic Lebanon. The program of the festival showcases 9 long feature films and documentaries, and 5 short Lebanese films to be screened starting today, June 29 concurrently in Lebanon, Tunisia, Algeria, Iran, Colombia, Greece, Brazil, France and Spain. Noting, that during the opening session, the organizing party will launch a campaign to confront the ‘myths’ and misconceptions about sexual orientation and identities, as well as the gender expressions in the Arabic-speaking region. On the naming of the festival, Al Akhbar newspaper reported that ‘Cinema al Fouad’ film by director Mohamad Souaid, launched back in 1993, was the first queer film to bring a taboo topic to the forefront through the Lebanese cinema. The film depicts Khaled, a Syrian laborer, in his journey to explore his real sexual identity, Al Akhbar wrote, saying that after more than a quarter of a century, the LGBT cause has knocked down many walls in Lebanon. It has succeeded today in the launch of a complete festival that was named after Souaid’s film. More on the event on the following link:(https://www.facebook.com/cinemalfouad). (Al Akhbar, June 24, 2019)
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