SIRENS

Award winning documentary about all-female Lebanese trash metal band "Slave to Sirens"

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Docu

Where:

Ketelhuis 2

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Director:

Rita Baghdadi

Running Time:

79 min

Country:

Libanon

Year:

2022

Language:

Arabisch en Engels

Subtitles:

Nederlands

Tags:

Lesbian

Queer

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.

IN-EDIT International Music Documentary Film Festival will give an introduction on March 30th.

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