SIRENS
Award winning documentary about all-female Lebanese trash metal band "Slave to Sirens"
Director:
Rita Baghdadi
Running Time:
79 min
Country:
Lebanon
Year:
2022
Language:
Arab and English
Subtitles:
Dutch
This multiple award winning documentary intimately chronicles the lives and music of Slave to Sirens, a band made up of five young metalheads whose burgeoning fame is set against the backdrop of the Lebanese revolution. Its members wrestle with friendship, sexuality, and destruction as their music serves as a refuge to Beirut’s youth culture.
At the band’s core are its two founding members, Lilasi and Shery, whose complicated relationship and subsequent tense fallout threatens the very fabric of the band. An even greater looming threat, however, is Lebanon’s criminalization of homosexuality, as well as the wholly devastating effects of their country’s political regime.
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