Rebirth

Antoun Issa powerfully captures his mother's true experiences of love, heartbreak and new hope during the violence of civil war.Beirut, 1974. Laila Khalil has just come of age for marriage. The eldest of five in a poor Catholic family, Laila knows that she must fulfil her family's expectations. But her heart is drawn to the handsome Nicolas, a coiffeur at a local hair salon. Dodging the watchful e...