Title: In the Shadows of the City (Also known as Taif al Madina)

Director: Jean Chamoun

Year: 2000

Language:  Arabic - English S/T

Duration: 105 minutes

 

One man's struggle to hold onto his beliefs in the midst of Lebanon's civil war, from the outbreak of fighting in 1975 up to the war's end in 1990. In 1975, 12-year-old Rami's life is turned upside down when Beirut is segregated into Christian and Muslim sectors. Twelve years later, Rami works as an ambulance driver, fighting to get news of his missing loved ones.