Behind Me Olive Trees

Apart from being the first short film from a Lebanese film student , to be selected at the Cinefondation competiton, Behind me Olive trees deals with a rather unknown side of Lebanon’s recent painful history : the cooperation of the so called “Lahd “ army with the Israel defense forces before Israel’s withdrawal from South Lebanon in 2000. Indeed, Mariam Mansour, the main character, played by Pascale Abou Jamra herself, is a twenty year old Lebanese girl who comes back with her family to Southern Lebanon after being forced to flee to Israel because her father was a military at the Lahd army.

The short-film will be screened during the Lebanese Film Festival 2012 in Cinema 1.