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Beirut: The Last Home Movie

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Director
  
Jennifer Fox

Screenplay
  
Jennifer Fox, John Mullen

Country
  
United States

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Genre
  
Documentary

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Beirut: The Last Home Movie movie poster

Release date
  
1987 (1987) (London Film Festival)

Writer
  
Jennifer Fox, John Mullen

Initial release
  
June 29, 1988 (New York City)

Music director
  
Ziad Rahbani, Lanny Meyers

Awards
  
Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize - U.S. Documentary

Similar movies
  
West Beirut (1998), Waltz with Bashir (2008), 51 Birch Street (2006), Shermans March (1985), Zozo (2005)

Beirut: The Last Home Movie is a 1987 documentary film directed by Jennifer Fox. It follows the life of Gaby Bustros and her family, who live in a 200-year-old mansion in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. The Bustros family, one of the noble families of Beirut, remain in their ancestral home despite the endless war that surrounds them.

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Exhibition

The film was screened at the Berlin Film Festival, the London Film Festival, and at INPUT, the International Television Conference. It was broadcast on US television as a Frontline special on PBS in 1991. The film was awarded the Excellence In Cinematography Award and won the Grand Jury Prize Documentary at the 1988 Sundance Film Festival.

Awards

  • Sundance Film Festival Best Cinematography
  • Soc. Civile des Aut. - Multimedia Best Screenplay
  • Women and Cinema Argentina - Press Award
  • C.I.N.E. - Golden Eagle Award
  • San Francisco Film Festival - Golden Gate Award
  • Cinema du Reel - Grand Prix
  • References

    Beirut: The Last Home Movie Wikipedia
    Beirut: The Last Home Movie IMDb Beirut: The Last Home Movie themoviedb.org