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From the director of Civilisees, which opened the 2000 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival and received its Nestor Almendros Prize, Randa Chahal Sabbag now turns her lens on South Lebanon. The subject of Chahal Sabbag's film is the charismatic Souha Becharre, whom many call the "fiancée du Liban." In 1989 at the age of twenty-one, Souha - a devoted communist - agreed to attempt the assassination of Lebanese General Antoine Lahad, who was collaborating with the Israeli Army in the South of Lebanon. Lahad survived, but Souha was quickly arrested and thrown in the Khiam prison where she spent ten years for the attempt on Lahad's life. Conditions in Khiam were horrific, and Souha endured six of those years in solitary confinement. Chahal Sabbag follows Souha in the months following her release, as she tirelessly travels Lebanon - speaking about her experiences at Khiam and searching out others who were imprisoned there. And despite all she suffered in Khiam, Souha is a survivor who shares her story with a sense of hope for the future - both her own and that of Lebanon.
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