Once Upon a Time in Beirut

Once Upon a Time in Beirut

104 mins | Drama | Jan. 2, 1995

Two young girls of the war generation, Yasmin and Leila, are in search of Beirut. When they meet an elderly film enthusiast with a secret store of Lebanese films, they persuade him to screen his collection for them. So begins an initiation into the myths and images of Beirut, but the girls want cold figures and facts, war babies indifferent to the memories evoked.

Once Upon a Time in Beirut

104 mins | Drama | Jan. 2, 1995

Once Upon a Time in Beirut
Two young girls of the war generation, Yasmin and Leila, are in search of Beirut. When they meet an elderly film enthusiast with a secret store of Lebanese films, they persuade him to screen his collection for them. So begins an initiation into the myths and images of Beirut, but the girls want cold figures and facts, war babies indifferent to the memories evoked.
Producers Aleph Production
Original title كان ياما كان في بيروت
Directors Jocelyne Saab
Writers Philippe Paringaux, Jocelyne Saab

Cast

Michèle Tyan

as Yasmine

Myrna Maakaron

as Leila