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    Frontiers of Dreams and Fears

    Mai MASR 2001 Palestine, USA color 56min DCP
    Two girls, Mona and Manar, living in refugee camps in Beirut and Bethlehem, share the dreams, hopes and fears of young Palestinians. The film uses intricate parallel editing to capture the joys and sorrows of the girls' growth, while also depicting the generational experience of exile.

    Director

    Mai MASR

    A pioneering Palestinian filmmaker based in Beirut. MASRI began making films in the early 1980s, and over the course of the past 40 years has directed and produced over 18 award-winning films. Her films focus on the struggles of women and children in Palestinian and Lebanon.

    Mai MASR

    2021 Beirut: Eye of the Storm

    2015 3000 Night 

    2007 33 Days

    2006 Beirut Diaries

    2001 Frontiers of Dreams and Fears 

    1998 Children of Shatila

    1995 Hanan Ashrawi: Woman of Her Time

    1992 Suspended Dreams

    1990 Children of Fire 

    1989 War Generation – Beirut 

    1986 Wildflowers 

    1983 Under the Rubble

     

    Producer: Mai MASRI, Jean CHAMOUN 

    Cinematographer: Fouad SULEIMAN, Hussein NASSAR, Jimmy MICHEL

    Editor: Michèle TYAN

    Music: Anouar BRAHEM

    Mai Masri
    maimmasri@gmail.com

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