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THE LEBANESE ROCKET SOCIETY

Joana Hadjithomas
Khalil Joreige
2012 France; Lebanon; Qatar 95 minutes English; Arabic
DR

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
Copy Contact :
Urban Distribution International - sophie@urbandistribution.fr

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