Sunday 13 April / 3pm

Screening locally made documentaries that investigate the 2006 Israel war on Lebanon, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.

Lebanon Burning
Australia / 2007 / 52 mins / Dir: Peter Manning

In 2006, after ten years of stability, prosperity and relative peace, Israel wages war on Lebanon following the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers. Israeli bombs targeted civilian factories and infrastructure, effectively setting back the cause of progress in Lebanon by twenty years. Lebanon Burning investigates the object of war, and provides a personal account of its effects from ordinary citizens who became the real targets. Produced by Mohsen Safieddin.

A Wishful Smile
Australia / 2007 / 12 mins / Dir: Mirna Nassar

Two residents of Qana in southern Lebanon speak of their loss and struggles, to make sense of the bombing of their village and the devastation it has brought to their lives.

Special Guest Speakers

Mirna Nassar - Filmmaker
Mohsen Safieddin - Producer
Peter Manning - Journalist, Academic and Author “Us and Them: A Journalist’s Investigation of Media, Muslims, and the Middle East”