Valley of Exile (2023)
August 16, 2023Release Date
Valley of Exile (2023)
August 16, 2023Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Maria Hassan
Rima
Hala Hosni
Nour
Michel Hourani
Khaled
Michel El Hourany
Khaled
Najwa Kandakji
Haifa
Joy Hallak
Shirin
Sajed Amer
Hassan
Moe Lattouf
Firas
Tarek Hakmi
Ali
Mohamad Yassine
Amine
Anna Fahr
Director / Writer / Editor / Producer
Lara Abou Saifan
Producer
Alan Špiljak
Original Music Composer
Aeschylus Poulos
Executive Producer
Pamela Khadra
Art Direction
Wajdi Elian
Editor
Media.
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Valley of Exile is a Canadian-Lebanese drama film, directed by Anna Fahr and released in 2023. The film centres on Rima (Maria Hassan) and Nour (Hala Hosni), two sisters from Syria who are living in a refugee camp in Lebanon after fleeing their homes during the Syrian civil war.
The cast also includes Michel Hourani, Najwa Kandakji, Joy Hallak, Sajed Amer, Tarek Hakmi, Moe Lattouf and Mohamad Yassine.
The film was shot in late 2021 and early 2022, principally in a real refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.
The film premiered in August 2023 at the Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival, where it won the award for Best Narrative Feature Film, Drama. It was later screened in the Focus: Women, Life and Freedom program at the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival, where Fahr won the award for Emerging Canadian Director.