Lebanon Memory Archive

The Soil and the Sea will screen at Bertha Doc House in London on Thursday May 9 at 18:20!

The screening on Thu 9 May will be followed by a panel discussion between the director Daniele Rugo, Ramzi Kaiss (Middle East and North Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch), and Lina Khatib (Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute at SOAS University of London).

Avant première de ‘The Soil and the Sea’ en France
+ discussion avec Ziad Majed, Nassera Dutour, Carmen Abou Jaoude et Daniele Rugo.

https://luminor-hoteldeville.com/film/598828/

Happening this week: Screening and discussion at Brown University.

Those who have registered will receive a time-limited link to the documentary 48-hours before the February 15 webinar with the director and producer.

https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2024/conversation-and-film-screening-soil-and-sea

In this interview with Curzon's Jade Turner, director Daniele Rugo discusses the film’s importance in starting a national discussion, his decision to focus on landscapes and voices, and the seeming impossibility of closure for affected families across Lebanon.

You can watch The Soil and the Sea in cinemas or on Curzon home cinema starting next week!

https://www.curzon.com/journal/the-soil-and-the-sea-interview/

We are pleased to announce that The Soil and the Sea will be screening in Curzon cinemas and online starting February 19.

Director Daniele Rugo will be in Curzon SOHO on February 19 for a Q&A post-screening!

Get your tickets on https://www.curzon.com/films/the-soil-and-the-sea/HO00005109/
----
In Lebanon there are more than 100 untouched mass graves dating back from the Civil War, and thousands of families awaiting a missing relative or at least a bone to bury

The Soil and the Sea unveils the violence lying beneath a garden, a school, a cafe, a hotel, and other unremarkable landscapes. As the camera interrogates these everyday spaces, voices fill them with erased stories.

https://themarkaz.org/the-soil-and-the-sea-the-revolutionary-act-of-remembering/

The Soil and the Sea: The Revolutionary Act of Remembering Daniele Rugo's documentary film investigates Lebanon's devastating civil war and ruminates on the fate of the myriad unmarked mass graves.

📣 New Article On Our Website: "Reimagine the Past: A Journey Through Memory, Oral History, and Lebanon's Unresolved Echoes" 🌍🔍

Discover Lebanon's recent history through personal testimonies and experiences that bring it to life by Connecting Present to Past, and Personal to social.

Gain insights into alternative approaches and different methods of explaining history by visiting the new website: https://www.reimaginethepast.org

Film Screening and Discussion🎞️
Monday 3 July, 7 pm.
Join us for a screening of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘪𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘢 by Daniele Rugo followed by a discussion between producer Carmen Abou Jaoudé, director Daniele Rugo and writer Elias Khoury.
In Lebanon there are more than 100 untouched mass graves dating back from the Civil War, and thousands of families awaiting a missing relative or at least a bone to bury.
The Soil and the Sea unveils the violence lying beneath a garden, a school, a cafe, a hotel, and other unremarkable landscapes. As the camera interrogates these everyday spaces, voices fill them with erased stories.

‎🎞️عرض فيلم و نقاش
‎الإثنين ٣ تموز، ٧ مساءً
‎انضموا إلينا الاثنين٣ تموز لعرض فيلم "بحر وتراب" يليه نقاش بين المنتجة كارمن أبو جودة والمخرج دانيلي رجو والكاتب الياس خوري
‎يوجد في لبنان أكثر من ١٠٠ مقبرة جماعية مغفًلة تعود إلى الحرب الأهلية، وهناك آلاف العائلات التي تنتظر ذويها المفقودين أو رفاتهم من أجل دفنها بطريقة لائقة على الأقل يَكشف فيلم "بحر وتراب" العنف المخفي تحت حديقة ومدرسة ومقهى وفندق، وغيرها من المعالم العادية. وبينما تستكشف الكاميرا هذه الأماكن، تمتلئ أصوات قصصٍ تمّ محوه.

We are honored to invite you to join us for the screening of "The Soil and the Sea" at the Beirut Art Center on Monday, July 3 at 7 p.m.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with novelist Elias Khoury, in the presence of the film's director Daniele Rugo, and the producer and expert in transitional justice Carmen Abou Jaoude.

The Soil and The Sea explores the link between Lebanon’s missing people and the 100 mass graves scattered around the country since the civil war.
You can learn more about the film on our website:
https://www.soilandseafilm.com

نتشرف بدعوتكم الى حضور الفيلم الوثائقي "بحر وتراب" من إخراج دانييل روغو، وإنتاج الباحثة كارمن أبو جودة بالتعاون مع جمعية "لنعمل من أجل المفقودين".

يعرض الفيلم في مركز بيروت للفن الإثنين 3 تموز/يوليو الجاري الساعة السابعة مساءً. يتبع العرض نقاش مع الروائي إلياس الخوري بحضور المخرج والمنتجة.

يستكشف "بحر وتراب" الرابط بين المفقودين في لبنان و١٠٠ مقبرة جماعية منتشرة في جميع أنحاء البلاد منذ الحرب الأهلية . الفيلم هو أول سجل من نوعه يكشف العنف المخفي تحت حديقة ومدرسة وفندق والبحر وغيرها من المعالم العادية من خلال شهادات شهود العيان وعائلات المفقودين والمعتقلين السابقين والناجين.

نتمنى حضوركم مع اعتبار الدعوة عامة

تجدون معلومات إضافية حول الفيلم هنا
https://www.soilandseafilm.com

The Soil and the Sea In Lebanon there are more than 100 untouched mass graves dating back from the Civil War, and thousands of families awaiting a missing relative or at least a bone to bury.  The Soil and the Sea unveils the violence lying beneath a garden, a school, a cafe, a hotel, and other unremarkable landscapes....

We’re honored to present our film “The Soil and the Sea” in its international premiere in Beirut as part of ‘s Ecrans du réel on May 3rd at 5:30 p.m.

We hope to see you at the screening!

Les familles des disparus ne lâcheront pas leur cause À l’occasion de la journée mondiale des disparus, fixée au 30 août, les familles des disparus au Liban et dans les geôles syriennes

Moving through the testimonies of Assad, a right wing Christian intelligence officer; Ahed, a Palestinian refugee fighter and Nassim, a Communist commander, About a War unpicks the personal motivations, trauma and regret of militiamen who picked up arms during the civil war. With no official account of the conflict, their testimonies build a multi-perspective picture of a crucial turning point in Lebanese history that radically transformed the Middle East.

The filmmakers have now made available their archive to showcase additional stories and interviews recorded for the film, but not included in the final edit

Director Daniele Rugo is also leading a cluster of projects called “Performing Violence, Engendering Change,” which connects artists and researchers from countries across Africa, the Middle East and South Asia in view of harnessing the arts' potential for improving human security in areas affected by conflict. The cluster is the result of a collaboration between partners from Kenya, Iraq, DR Congo, Pakistan, South Africa, Uganda, Lebanon, and the UK, and it is funded by GCRF. The Lebanon Memory Archive is one of the projects within this cluster.

Check out the film archive here:
https://aboutawar.co.uk/

“Badna Naaref” is an oral history project that was launched in 2012. Twelve public and private schools in Greater Beirut participated in training sessions and invited students to document their parents’ stories in writing and in film. A website was created to host the summaries of these testimonies. This archive went offline a few years ago.

We decided to republish the content of the original website to keep the stories alive and available for anyone who would like to remember or learn about Lebanon’s war.

The partners that worked on Badna Naaref are: ICTJ ; CEMAM at USJ ; Umam Documentation & Research ; ACT for the Disappeared; as well as Al Jana Center.

Check it out on https://www.lebanonmemory.com/badna-naaref

Since the inception of the 17th October 2019 Revolution, the Lebanese youth has begun to confront the civil war’s legacy of repressed trauma, and forced amnesia. They have begun to challenge the hegemonic narrative put forward by ex-fighters and warlords-turned-ruling class by encouraging their parents and elders to recount their own stories of survival and struggle. However, without a central documentation platform, this oral history cannot be preserved well and be transmitted across generations. This project seeks to create a multimedia website to curate the stories and conversations surrounding the necessary memory of the war that can help push forward the understanding of Lebanon’s post-war politics and its repercussions and role in the multi-layered crises the country is experiencing.

The Lebanon Memory Archive is a central documentation platform that digs up and displays archives and projects that have contributed to preserving and transmitting the oral history of the civil war in Lebanon, as well as other histories of violence in the region. This multimedia website curates the stories and conversations surrounding the necessary memory of the war, which can help push forward the understanding of Lebanon’s post-war politics and its repercussions and role in the multi-layered crises the country is experiencing.

This project is part of the ‘Performing Violence, Engendering Change’ cluster, which connects artists and researchers from countries across Africa, the Middle East and South Asia in view of harnessing the arts' potential for improving human security in areas affected by conflict. The cluster is the result of a collaboration between partners from Kenya, Iraq, DR Congo, Lebanon, Pakistan, South Africa, Uganda, and the UK. The project is led by Dr Daniele Rugo and funded by GCRF UK.

Lebanon Memory Archive updated their business hours.