2023-11-09 22:00:00
In this very bad time in which we face great dangers in which the culture of death is trying to impose itself on our right to life, yesterday, Wednesday, was the premiere of the documentary “The Rahbani Third” regarding the composer “By Nature” Elias Rahbani in the Beret Theater at the Institute of Theater, Audio-Visual and Film Studies at the University of… Saint Joseph, during the activities of the Beirut Film Festival (BAFF), carrying with him, through the testimonies of its participants, a trust from Elias Rahbani, the visionary and keen on resistance through melody and words, especially since the latter suffered from the cruelty of people and the lack of appreciation from the ministries of culture and successive governments for his generous and cosmopolitan production, with the exception of honoring him from While awarding him medals – and this is the least obligatory – during the era of Presidents Elias Sarkis, Emile Lahoud, and Michel Aoun. He is the one who told the late colleague Mai Mansi in an article in “An-Nahar” newspaper on August 15, 2010, “I have become accustomed since my childhood to not waiting for a gesture from anyone. Am I intentionally forgetting so that I only rely on myself? The implanted human instinct that sometimes precedes the philosophy of tolerance and love.” And brotherhood, which has always been my innate school, which I endeavored to develop in order to escape the cynicism of fate and the cruelty of human beings. At those times when I cannot repel it, storms of treachery and lies blow from deep within my chest, wounding the nature of the sensitive person residing within me.” This documentary, which will be re-screened at eight o’clock in the evening every Saturday, November 11 and Friday, November 17, at the Beret Theater, is a very commendable attempt to do justice to Elias Rahbani. It was made by a professional youth group in which the roles of research and preparation were distributed to Raymond Aftimos and Fairouz Sarhal, who is the director of this. The work, produced by Cynthia Choucair and funded by…
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