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The Insult
NAME OF FILM: THE INSULT
DIRECTOR(S): Ziad Doueiri
STARRING: Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Camille Salameh, Diamand Bou Abboud, Rita Hayek, Talal El Jurdi, Christine Choueiri, Julia Kassar, Rifaat Torbey, Carlos Chahine.
GENRE: Foreign Film
SYNOPSIS: When a Palestinian refugee and a Christian nationalist have a fateful crossing of paths, long-simmering tensions in modern-day Lebanon rise to the surface — and spiral out of control.
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THE INSULT, WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY and BODIED Win at AFI FEST 2017
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