The Arab Film Festival is proud to host the World Premiere of We Never Left by Loulwa Khoury. Watch it in person in San Francisco on October 27th, or online as part of our virtual festival.
Saying goodbye to loved ones at the Beirut airport has become an unfortunate tradition in Lebanon, even a curse. Lebanese emigrants, driven abroad by decades of turmoil, are more than double those still left in their homeland. After civil protests erupt in Lebanon on October 17th 2019, WE NEVER LEFT follows three young Lebanese expats as they wage the Lebanese revolution from New York and fight for a better country. As they go through their collective journey, they each individually confront their relationship with their homeland and their own complicated identities. This is the story of political and personal revolutions a world away from home.
Another film from Lebanon that we are screening at the festival is Arzé by Mira Shaib. You can read more about it here.
We Never Left
Directed by Loulwa Khoury
WORLD PREMIERE
Run Time: 83 minutes
Year: 2024
Country: United States, Lebanon
Language: Arabic, English
About the Director, Loulwa Khoury
Loulwa Khoury is a New York based filmmaker, film editor born and raised in Beirut. She edited award-winning feature documentaries Paradise Without People (2019), Dusty and Stones (2022). She also edited Traces of Home and Joy Dancer (2024).
We Never Left is her first feature documentary as a Director and Producer.
She was one of the fellows of the Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship and a fellow in the Sundance Co//ab Art of Editing Fellowship, in the DOC NYC x VC Storytelling Incubator cohort as well as a winner of the Creative Power Award.
After studying in film school, her focus on documentary came from wanting to raise awareness of social and political issues in the world through film. She also likes documentaries related to art and music since she grew up in a family of musicians and music was her first love before diving into the film world.
We Never Left by Loulwa Khoury will screen on October 27th in San Francisco and online as part of our virtual festival.
For more information about the 28th Arab Film Festival, visit arabfilmfestival.org
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