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buy canada goose jacket cheap That’s the premise of a new film called The Insult it’s Lebanon’s entry to the Oscars. In it, a neighborhood spat pushes the city of Beirut to the brink of chaos.

canada goose deals Filmmaker Ziad Doueiri says he was inspired by a real life incident. He was watering his plants on the balcony of his home in Beirut, when the water spilled out onto a construction worker below.

Canada Goose Jackets “So I leaned on the balcony I yelled at him, he yelled back, he says, ‘You’re a dog,'” Doueiri says. “And then this thing led Canada Goose sale to a bigger canadian goose jacket insult, which I threw an insult at him. This is so bad, what you just said.’ I said, ‘You’re right.’ So I came down to apologize and then the guy refused my apology because he was very hurt.”

buy canada goose jacket That argument is pushed to its extreme in Doueiri’s new film. Water leaks off Canada Goose Coats On Sale a Christian man’s balcony onto a Palestinian construction worker below.

Arguments ensue. Insults are thrown. Canada Goose Outlet Neither man is willing to apologize.

“It’s very rare in my culture where you can have somebody who does something and he comes face to face, says, ‘Look, I really apologize,'” Doueiri says. “It’s not part of our culture. Sometime the simplest thing can be the beginning of resolving a much bigger problem. canada goose coats on sale So that’s why this guy in the film, he wants an apology. All he wants is an apology and then later we start finding out why.”

The why has to do with Lebanon’s past the religious and ethnic divisions that tore the country into warring factions. From 1975 1990, Canada Goose Online the Lebanese Civil War killed more than a hundred thousand people.

canada goose coats “Lebanon, in spite canada goose uk shop of its smallness it’s Canada Goose Jackets only 4 million people it’s still extremely rich because it’s one of those places that has all the religions in it,” Doueiri says. “You have Christians, Shiites, Sunnis, Catholics, Protestants, Armenians, Canada Goose Parka Turks. All of it. You know, you have 16 religions that are all recognized by the government. It’s what it made it diversified, complex and fiery.”

cheap Canada Goose And it remains flammable, says buy canada goose jacket Lebanese born arts journalist Nana Asfour. She says what has kept those communities together since the Civil War is only a shaky peace. “That idea that there has been what they call a historical amnesia that uk canada goose outlet has happened in Lebanon where everybody thinks, ‘Let’s look https://www.alifeoutofdebt.com forward and not look back,’ and how problematic that is because all the problems that canada goose uk outlet led to the war have not been dealt with appropriately canada goose factory sale and anything can happen to bring them back.”

In The Insult the argument over leaking water goes to trial. The proceedings go viral. Palestinians and Christians start fighting on the streets.

The politics on screen are still so sensitive that Ziad Doueiri’s previous film was banned in the Arab world. It was called The Attack and it was about Arab citizens of cheap canada goose uk Israel.

“I grew up all my life canada goose coats considering the other side as the ultimate enemy but I am still curious,” Doueiri says. “I want to know who are those people. I am for dialogue. I am canada goose clearance for bridging gaps. This is how I am. This is what we do for living. Crossing canada goose borders is what we do for a living.

canada goose store “So whether we talk about tolerance or we want to look at the other side of the rock just to see what is their narrative, what is their discourse, those people you grew up all your life uk canada goose hating so much. But they must have a point of view. The Insult is a response to that.”

The Insult is also facing protests, led by the BDS movement, which calls for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Activists have accused Doueiri of being pro Israeli and have launched a social media campaign accusing him of buy canada goose jacket cheap acquiescing to Israeli occupation.

canada goose clearance sale After The Insult premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Doueiri was detained at the Beirut airport. The film’s premiere in the West Bank was cancelled.

canada goose clearance canada goose outlet “The BDS purpose is Canada Goose online what?” Doueiri says. “Defend Palestine. When you go and you forbid a film where the main actor, a Palestinian guy [Kamel El Basha], won best [actor] award at Venice Film Festival first time in history that a Palestinian actor win in Venice or anywhere else in the world, first time! when the BDS, who are supposed to be protecting Palestinian rights, stop this Palestinian actor to present his movies in Ramallah, basically you’re screwing yourself in the head. It doesn’t make any logic.”

Canada Goose sale Ziad Doueri says he won’t apologize. canada goose clearance sale And given the firestorm around his work, Doueiri says he was shocked that Lebanon chose The Insult as its entry to this year’s Oscars.

“That was my award,” he says. “I already got my award. Nobody canada goose store believed that it would happen. I mean Lebanon does take you by surprise from time to time.”

canada goose Ziad Doueiri says his cinema takes him by surprise too.

Canada Goose Parka His default setting is angry and cynical. He’s been known to throw insults. But he says it’s through his films that he calms down.

canada goose coats on sale “In my film, I try to tap into the moderate part of me,” Doueiri says. “Otherwise you lose your mind. But if you let me out there, I can be a lot angrier. If you hear what I really think, I would be the subject of a different interview.”

Canada Goose online Ziad Doueiri says his films are his way of healing the scars that still divide Beirut and cheap Canada Goose his way of pouring water over the insults that inflame so easily.