Beirut the last home movie

Chronicles three months in 1981 in the life of a Lebanese family living in one of Beirut's heavily bombed and all-but-deserted neighborhoods. The Bustros family cannot face the present or extricate itself from the past.

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"Chronicles three months in 1981 in the life of a Lebanese family living in one of Beirut's heavily bombed and all-but-deserted neighborhoods. The Bustros family cannot face the present or extricate itself from the past."@en
"Chronicles of 1981-1989 in the life of a Lebanese family living in Beirut's heavily bombed and all-but-deserted neighborhood: Christian Ashrafia. The Bustros family cannot face the present or extricate itself from the past."@en
"Tells the story of three sisters, scions of one of Lebanon's oldest families, who live with their mother and brother in a two-hundred-year-old palace located in one of Beirut's most heavily bombed neighborhoods. Presents the family as one that cannot face the present, extricate itself from the past, or imagine the future."@en
"Tells the story of three sisters, scions of one of Lebanon's oldest families, who live with their mother and brother in a two-hundred-year-old palace located in one of Beirut's most heavily bombed neighborhoods. Presents the family as one that cannot face the present, extricate itself from the past, or imagine the future."
"Chronicles three months in 1981 in the life of a Lebanese family living in Beirut's heavily bombed and all-but-deserted neighborhood: Christian Ashrafia. The Bustros family cannot face the present or extricate itself from the past."@en
"In 1981 the Bustros Family (Greek Orthodox Christians) decided to remain in the Ashrafiyah district of Beirut in spite of the war zone atmosphere. The film documents three months of events in their daily life in war-torn Lebanon. Includes archival film footage."
"This study of a once-prominent Lebanese family takes place in 1981 in Beirut where six years of warfare have ravaged and divided the city. Gaby Bustros returns to her 200-year-old ancestral home in the Christian Ashrafia neighborhood to try to persuade her family to leave their palatial manor which has miraculously withstood sniper fire and bombings. Gaby, her sisters Mouna and Nayla, and brother Fady reminisce about their rarefied childhoods and their father, a reserved man with powerful financial and political connections. As servants quietly tend to the needs of the family and help preserve the vestiges of an era long past, complex familial relationships emerge, even though members are reluctant to discuss their economic situation and the cataclysmic events which rock the city outside their walled compound. Obsessive in their denial, they carry on as if nothing has changed, taking tea, hosting a costume party and celebrating the brother's marriage."
"Chronicles three months in 1981 in the life of a Lebanese family living in Beirut's heavily bombed and all-but-deserted neighborhood. The Bustros family cannot face the present or extricate itself from the past."
"This film documents three months of events in the daily life of the Bustros family, who live in war-torn Beirut in 1981."@en