“Sleepless Nights” DVD Launch

After its premiere at the prestigious San Sebastian film festival in Spain, screenings at other international festivals, theatrical releases in Paris and Lebanon and a ranking of fifth of the best 25 non-fiction films of 2013 by Sight and Sound magazine, the documentary “Sleepless Nights” by Eliane Raheb will be released on DVD during the 8th edition of Beirut Cinema Days by MC Distribution.

“Sleepless” are the nights of Assaad Shaftari, the former high-ranking intelligence officer in the Lebanese Forces militia, who feels guilt for his bloody acts during the civil war, and the nights of Maryam Saidi, who’s still searching for her son Maher, a young Communist fighter who disappeared in 1982. While each of them is looking for salvation, the film asks if redemption and forgiveness are possible in a community that seems unable to heal itself.

Director: Eliane Raheb
Producer: Nizar Hassan