A Feeling Greater Than Love is the point of departure for a special screening program at Spektakel Art Space in Vienna this month! Featuring the films of seminal Iraqi film editor Qays al Zubeidi http://spektakel.wien/event/montage-fabrik-zeitgemaess-unzeitgemaess/
Author: Mary Jirmanus Saba
Filmmaker and Geographer based in Beirut.
Top Films of 2017
Honored to be on film theorist and critic Nicole Bronze's list of top 5 films of 2017! Thanks BFI for putting together such a wide-ranging and interesting list of films.
Festival de Cine Nuevo Latinoamericano La Habana
A Feeling Greater Than Love is coming to La Habana! 13th and 14th of December at El 39 Festival International del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano La Habana. http://habanafilmfestival.com/filme/shuour-akbar-min-el-hob/
Review in Asian Film Vault
A Feeling Greater Than Love (2017) by Mary Jirmanus Saba "What will strike the spectator of the documentary, from the beginning, is the amount of footage Saba managed to collect and include. Photographs, video, sound, both form the past and the present, even scenes from movies dealing with the theme, of which " A Hundred [...]
A Feeling Greater Than Love in São Paulo
São Paulo film festival includes Arab movies The 41st São Paulo International Film Festival begins this Thursday (19) and runs until November 1. Fifteen Arab productions are included in the program. "One of the highlights at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Lebanese documentary A Feeling Greater Than Love (Shu'our akbar min el hob), by director [...]
Disidencias at FIC Valdivia
From Otros Cines... "En A feeling greater than love importan menos los recuerdos de huelgas por mejores condiciones laborales en el Líbano de los 70 que la agitación militante con el presente de esa memoria histórica que se vuelve cíclica." Coming soon to FIC Valdivia ! https://www.otroscines.com/nota?idnota=12539
Special Mention at Mediterranean Film Festival
Honored to received a Special Mention at the Mediterranean Film Festival in Siroki, Bosnia & Herzegovina. http://www.mff.ba/2017/opsirnije_x.asp?IDNovost=627
Acquired by Arsenal Distribution
A Feeling Greater by Love will be distributed by Arsenal Distribution in Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland!
Special Mention @ Dokufest
A Feeling Greater Than Love wins Special Mention in the Human Rights Competition at Dokufest Kosovo! "An important and timely investigation of labor histories and working class solidarity in Lebanon in the period shortly before the civil wars."
DESIST FILM “BAFICI 2017”
BAFICI 2017: A FEELING GREATER THAN LOVE DE MARY JIRMANUS SABA Desistfilm.com Por Mónica Delgado ¿Se imaginan la reunión de viejos militantes izquierdistas, ex sindicalistas y obreros, donde cada uno hace preguntas sobre los procesos de revolución fallidos que casi nadie recuerda? El valor de este film de la cineasta libanesa Mary Jirmanus Saba está [...]
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