THE LEBANESE ROCKET SOCIETY

  • Joana Hadjithomas
  • Khalil Joreige
  • 2012
  • France; Lebanon; Qatar
  • 95 minutes
  • English; Arabic
  • DR
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In the early 1960s, right in the middle of the Cold War and at the height of pan-Arabism, a group of researchers from an Armenian university and Lebanese researchers enter the space race and create the Lebanese Rocket Society The film investigates the apparent absence of the Lebanese space program from our personal and collective memory.

  • Production : Mille et une Productions
  • Distribution : Umédia
  • Editing : Tina Baz
  • Sound : Rana Eid
  • Photography : Jeanne Lapoirie, Rachel Aoun
  • Music : Nadim Mishlawi, Scrambled Eggs, Discipline
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