Martyr /

For Hassane, a young man from an impoverished neighborhood, life has stopped making sense. All he has left is a close group of friends, brought together by a shared sense of marginalization and hopelessness. Hassane's strange sudden drowning at Beirut's rocky shore sparks a mob procession...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	La Biennale de Venezia
Other Authors:	Khaled, Mazen (Screenwriter), Abboud, Carole (Actor), Mekdad, Hamza (Actor), Fahs, Mostafa (Actor), Ayash, Hady Bou (Actor), Nasereddine, Rashad (Actor), el Zaher, Rabih (Actor), Akil, Mohammad (Actor), Sabbah, Hussein (Actor)
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	Arabic
Language Notes:	Arabic dialogue; English subtitles.
Published:	Philadelphia, PA : Breaking Glass Pictures, [2018]
Subjects:	Gay men > Drama. Beirut (Lebanon) > Drama. Foreign films. Motion pictures, Lebanese. Motion pictures, Italian. Feature films. Fiction films.

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Summary:	For Hassane, a young man from an impoverished neighborhood, life has stopped making sense. All he has left is a close group of friends, brought together by a shared sense of marginalization and hopelessness. Hassane's strange sudden drowning at Beirut's rocky shore sparks a mob procession and strips apart the bond of youth and friendship, forcing his friends to grapple with loss and powerlessness, and with cold heavy truth of their friend's dead body.
Item Description:	Title from container. Wide screen (1.78:1). Special features: "A very dangerous man" director's short film.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD, region 1, NTSC, wide screen (1.78:1); Dolby digital 5.1.