Year: 1998
Runtime: 105 mins
Language: Arabic
Director: Ziad Doueiri
Growing up is only half the battle. In 1975, as the Lebanese civil war erupts, childhood friends Tarek and Omar find their lives shattered by the conflict. When they attempt to cross the city’s dividing line from West to East—where Muslim and Christian neighborhoods meet—their loyalties and survival are tested amid escalating violence.
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