MIGUEL’S WAR
With Director Eliane Raheb in-person
Screenings:
Sunday, March 5 at 7 PM at Spectacle Theatre, followed Q&A with director Eliane Raheb moderated by Ginou Choueiri (Director of Film Programs, ArteEast)
Wednesday March 9 at 7:30 PM
Sunday March 12 at 5 PM
Tuesday March 21 at 7:30 PM
Address: Spectacle Theatre, 124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY,
co-presented by ArteEast and Spectacle Theatre
Friday, March 3 at 5:30 PM at the Museum of the Moving Image
Address: Bartos Screening Room, Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106
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co-presented by ArteEast and the Museum of Moving Image
Miguel’s War, Eliane Raheb, Lebanon/Germany/Spain, 2021, 128 mins
In Arabic, Spanish, French, and English with subtitles.
Synopsis: Miguel’s War is the story of a gay man who grew up oppressed and shamed during the Lebanese civil war. Raised by a conservative Catholic father and an authoritarian Syrian mother, teenage Miguel was inhibited by a deep inferiority complex and was incapable of asserting himself. In 1983 the deeply sensitive boy, desperate to prove he “exists” and can act like “a real man” joined the fighting as part of an armed faction. But his experience was a failure. Traumatized he immigrates to Madrid, Spain. In post-Franco Madrid, Miguel seeks to liberate himself through debauchery. A string of destructive relationships lead him to a failed suicide. Trying to pull himself together, Miguel becomes a conference interpreter in Barcelona. Only then, thirty-seven years after leaving Lebanon, Miguel feels ready to face his trauma and the ghosts of his past, and hopes to regain his emotional balance and maybe even find love. Using intertwining cinematic forms, melding documentary, animation, theater and archive and filmed on location in Lebanon and Spain, this feature film hopes to offer an experience of self-confrontation, awareness and catharsis.
