A Feeling Greater Than Love

Fatima returns to a moment in Lebanese history where a social revolution could have been -but was thwarted by the outbreak of civil war in 1975. Following my search in Lebanon today for Fatima Khaweja, a 19 year-old girl killed by the Lebanese army during a worker’s strike at Gandour chocolate factory in 1972, the film asks why the revolution never happened and what hope is there for secular social change today.

LENGTH

Feature

GENRE

Documentary

PRODUCED IN

Lebanon

STATUS

Completed

WITH THE HELP OF

AFLAMUNA Connection

meet the director

Mary Jirmanus Saba is a filmmaker and geographer. Her work explores labor and agrarian movements in the Middle East and Latin America and the militant cinema of both regions. Her shorts have been shown at festivals and in classrooms internationally. Fatima is her first feature documentary.

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