Leila and the Wolves
{{Short description|1984 drama film by Heiny Srour}}
Leila and the Wolves ({{langx|ar|ليلى والذئاب}}) is a 1984 drama film from Lebanese director Heiny Srour{{cite book |last=Hillauer |first=Rebecca |date=2005 |title=Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yv1BH5Wz-ekC&pg=PA183 |publisher=American University in Cairo Press |page=183 |isbn=9789774249433}} and assistant director Sabah Jabbour.{{Cite web |title=Sabah Jabbour |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb1e58223 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824194440/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb1e58223 |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 24, 2021 |publisher=British Film Institute |language=en }}
It was filmed in often treacherous areas and the filming lasted seven years.{{cite book |last=Kuhn |first=Annette |date=1990 |title=The Women's Companion to International Film |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pjqOM04aGJ8C&pg=PA383 |publisher=University of California Press |page=383 |isbn=9780520088795}} In the film, the protagonist Leila, a modern Lebanese woman living in London, time travels through the 1900s to the 1980s, with each trip focusing on the centrality of women in Palestinian and Lebanese resistance movements.{{cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/leila-and-the-wolves |title=Leila and the Wolves |website=Time Out |date=10 September 2012 |access-date=June 24, 2017}} The film won the Grand Prize in the Third World competition at the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg.
Cast & Crew
Directors of photography: Charlet Recors, Curtis Clark
Editor: Eva Houdova
Sound: Peter Maxwell
Music: Mounir Bachir, Laki Nassif
Cast: Nabila Zeitouni, Rafik Ali Ahmad, Raja Nehme, Sabah Obeid, Samar Samy
References
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Bibliography
- Terri Ginsberg, Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour: Studies in Palestine Solidarity Cinema, Palgrave, 2021 ; see, {{p.|19-49}}, [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-85354-9_2 first chapter].
- Viviane Saglier, « Decolonization, Disenchantment, and Arab Feminist Genealogies », Feminist Media Histories 8(1), January 2022, {{p.|72-101}}, DOI:10.1525/fmh.2022.8.1.72 [https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/29454/Saglier_2024_FMH_Decolonization-disenchantment_VoR.pdf;jsessionid=AB7892AB375BD0160E68EDBFC2AC37DC?sequence=1 read online]
- Mark Westmoreland, «Leila and the Wolves», {{cite book|access-date=2025-01-15 |date=2020-09-15 |first1=Terri |first2=Chris |isbn=978-1-5381-3905-9 |language=en |last1=Ginsberg |last2=Lippard |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |title=Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xhzzDwAAQBAJ&q=Leila+and+the+Wolves+%281984%29&pg=PR9}}, {{p.|310-311}}.
- «Leila and the Wolves», {{cite book|access-date=2025-01-09 |date=2005 |first1=Rebecca |isbn=978-977-424-943-3 |language=en |last1=Hillauer |publisher=American University in Cairo Press |title=Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yv1BH5Wz-ekC&q=leila+and+the+wolves&pg=IA1}}, {{p.|184-187}}.
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