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Jessy Moussallem

Cavalry is the lead single from The Beirut School, a new compilation celebrating ten years of trailblazing Lebanese indie band Mashrou’ Leila. The accompanying video is the band’s second collaboration with director Jessy Moussallem, following her award-winning film for Roman. This is a far more gritty and harrowing affair.&nbsp;Moussalem dramatises&nbsp;the devastating cruelty and machismo of militarized oppression, which enters our homes, and plays out in our domestic life, by having a group of young girls from a Lebanese village confront&nbsp;a platoon of soldiers who taken away a 15 year old boyCalling to mind Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian teenager arrested outside her home for confronting Israeli soldiers, and thrown into the public gaze as an activist, the children in the film reflect Mashrou’ Leila’s own struggles with political power, having recently been banned from being with their audiences in Jordan and Egypt, and finding themselves at the center of yet another human rights polemic.The film reminds us perhaps of the energized idealism we had as youths coming into the world, and believing we could change it, before political fatigue left us jaded and defeated.

Lebanon

Wissam Smayra, Marlene Jaber, Olivier Muller, Sorcha Shepherd, Jakob Preischl, Hadi Dahrouge

Clandestino Films, Phantasm, Caviar, Bwgtbld, Mathematic

Marie-lynn Nasrallah

Amanda Kik

Sofian El Fani

Jonathan Saccal

Carlo Kassabian

Ola Achkar

Tianès Montasser

Mathieu Caplanne

Mathematic

Guillaume Marien, Hadi Dahrouge

Vincent Goy, Cecile Crilout,

Ayman Hamawi

Indie

Mashrou' Leila 'Cavalry' by Jessy Moussallem

Mashrou' Leila - Cavalry (Official Music Video) | مشروع ليلى - معاليك

Jessy Moussallem brings us&nbsp;into the world of an tight-knit army unit - training, bonding, relaxing, fighting - within the ruins of a building on the shores of the Meditteranean, in this hypnotic video for Agoria.As she explains here, Moussalem was inspired by a family tragedy during a traumatic time for her country - the civil war in Lebanon in 1983. Here she dramatises&nbsp;the days and hours&nbsp;before actual conflict, where a militia of young men build up the camaraderie that they will take into battle.

Olivier Muller

Phantasm

Georges Cassab

Benoit Soler

Vincent Toubel

Carlos Font Clos

Simon Bourne

Framestore Uk

Sapiens

Agoria 'Embrace' by Jessy Moussallem

Agoria-'Embrace'-by-Jessy-Moussallem

Jessy Moussallem has written and directed a new film for songs from electronic artist Damian Lazarus &amp; The Ancient Moons&#39; new album Heart Of Sky, which opens up a little-known&nbsp;world - the farming communities that cultivate and harvest Lebanese Red hashish in the Bekaa valley, between the mountains of eastern Lebanon - and plays in the spaces between documentary and fiction.It&#39;s a moving portrait of the people&nbsp;who work the fields of the illegal industry, and the realities of their lives. But Lebanese filmmaker Moussalem adds a level of cinematic experimentation to the raw intimacy. She was given&nbsp;free rein to work with the music of Damian Lazarus &amp; The Ancient Moons, using sounds and samples. The film, a co-production between Phantasm Paris,&nbsp;Clandestino Films and Caviar London, features numerous tracks from their new album.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Eli Souaiby

Clandestino Films

Sorcha Shepherd

Wissam Smayra, Olivier Muller

Nightshift

Georgie Macechern

John Hassay

Crosstown Rebels/BMG

Caviar

Dance

Damian Lazarus & The Ancient Moons 'Heart Of Sky' by Jessy Moussallem

Damian-Lazarus-&-The-Ancient-Moons-'Heart-Of-Sky-'-by-Jessy-Moussallem

Jessy Moussallem&#39;s epic&nbsp;video for Mashrou&rsquo; Leila&#39;s Roman&nbsp;is an ode to the strength and grace of Arab women and their continuous fight for feminist action, featuring one hundred women.&nbsp;Revolving around the lyrical pivot in the chorus: &ldquo;aleihum&rdquo; (charge!), it uses a group of women who&rsquo;s ethnic backgrounds are consciously over-articulated through choices of styling and location in a manner more typically employed by Western media to represent victimhood and oppression. By doing so, the film seeks to disturb the global narrative of hyper-secularized white feminism, which positions itself as being ideologically incompatible with Islam and the Arab World.The still, pale landscape allows the force of the women&rsquo;s resolute dignity to radiate, as the dancer&rsquo;s fierce movements cut through the quietude. Together, the women walk into the water, confident in their agency and fearless in their determination for a sea change. The unique spirit of the film emerges from the gut of the Middle East through the work of the music, the narrative, and the Arab female director behind it.

Wissam Smayra

Ray Barakat

Katie Dolan

Farah Assaf

Antoine Taymour Sfeir

Daniel Fernández Abelló

Tuixén Benet

Dorine Aguillar

Houmam Abdallah

Sebastien Leclercq

Mashrou’ Leila ‘Roman’ by Jessy Moussallem

Mashrou' Leila - Roman (Official Music Video) | مشروع ليلى - رومان

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