| The Kite | |
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| Directed by | Randa Chahal Sabag |
| Written by | Randa Chahal Sabag |
| Starring | Flavia Bechara Maher Bsaibes Julia Kassar Liliane Nemri Ziad Rahbani |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | Lebanon |
| Language | Levantine Arabic |
The Kite (French: Le Cerf-volant, Levantine Arabic: طيّارة من ورق ṭiyyāra min waraʔ) is a 2003 Lebanese film by the director Randa Chahal Sabag. It tells the story of a 15-year-old Lebanese girl, from a Druze community, who is forced to marry her cousin across the Israeli border, but finds herself in love with an Israeli soldier. Le Cerf-volant was Sabag's most commercially and critically successful movie, and her last; she died in 2008.[1] The film was Lebanon's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards.[2] Although it never received a theatrical release in the United States, the film was released to DVD in 2009 by First Run Features.[3]
- ^ Quilty, Jim (27 August 2008). "Award-winning filmmaker Randa Chahal Sabag passes away in Paris". The Daily Star. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ Lybarger, Dan (16 January 2004). "The Kite". Nitrate Online. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ Atkinson, Michael (14 April 2009). "A Tragicomedy, Split Down Its Center". IFC. Retrieved 12 December 2014.