{"id":28656,"date":"2013-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/directory\/tall-as-the-baobab-tree-screening-at-the-2013-beirut-international-film-festival"},"modified":"2013-10-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T00:00:00","slug":"tall-as-the-baobab-tree-screening-at-the-2013-beirut-international-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/directory\/tall-as-the-baobab-tree-screening-at-the-2013-beirut-international-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tall as the Baobab Tree&#8217; Screening at the 2013 Beirut International Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join the 13th edition of the Beirut International Film Festival as it hosts a screening of the film, &#8220;Tall as the Baobab Tree,&#8221; directed by Jeremy Teicher.<\/p>\n<p>  <b>Synopsis<\/b>: In a rural Senegalese village poised at the outer edge of the modern world, a teenage girl hatches a secret plan to rescue her 11-year-old sister from an arranged marriage.<\/p>\n<p>  A powerful voice from Africa\u2019s young generation, Tall as the Baobab Tree poignantly depicts a family struggling to find its footing at the outer edge of the modern world\u2026 where questions of right and wrong are not always black and white.<\/p>\n<p>  Coumba and her little sister Debo are the first to leave their family\u2019s remote African village, where meals are prepared over open fires and water is drawn from wells, to attend school in the bustling city. 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