The Insult (Ziad Doueiri, 2017)

02/10/2018

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Categories

• Visual Arts

The Insult (Ziad Doueiri, 2017) 

Contemporary Screen

Winter/Spring 2018 Preview

Set in contemporary Beirut, Ziad Doueiri’s follow-up to The Attack is a resonant and compelling look at the tensions in Lebanese society—and sure to be one of the winter’s most-discussed foreign films. When an insult gets blown out of proportion, a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee find themselves facing off in court. The media circus that breaks out around the case threatens to ignite a social explosion in their divided country, forcing the trial’s participants to reconsider their lives and social prejudices. (112 mins., DCP)