LEILA & THE WOLVES (1985, Lebanon) (Church of Film)

Leila, a Lebanese woman living abroad, reflects on the women in Lebanese and Palestinian history. Her reflection becomes cinematic time travel throughout the past, where she passes as a ghostly apparition through a mosaic of tales of women during Palestine’s colonization, the Nakba, and the destruction of the civil war in Lebanon. Taking over 7 years to complete under dangerous shooting conditions, Heny Srour’s LEILA & THE WOLVES is part fairy tale feminist masterpiece of revolution, war, trauma and gender throughout Palestine’s tragic century.