Leila and the Wolves
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| Directed by | Heiny Srour |
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| Edited by | Eva Houdova |
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Running time | 90 min. |
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| Language | Arabic |
Leila and the Wolves (Arabic: ليلى والذئاب) is a 1984 drama film from Lebanese director Heiny Srour[2] and assistant director Sabah Jabbour.[3]
It was filmed in often treacherous areas and the filming lasted seven years.[4] In the film, the protagonist Leila, a modern Lebanese woman living in London, time travels through the 1900s to the 1980s, with each trip focusing on the centrality of women in Palestinian and Lebanese resistance movements.[5] Srour described the film as a "disillusioned" work depicting the injustices leading to violence and war that most damages the vulnerable, while not idealizing the oppressed.[6] The film won the Grand Prize in the Third World competition at the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg.[2]
Plot
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In present day London, Leila is preparing for a photography exhibit on Palestine. She takes her partner Rafiq on a historical tour of Palestinian and Lebanese history, showing the imagined role of women in these events. The film depicts the 1936–1939 Palestinian revolt, the Deir Yassin massacre, and the Lebanese Civil War. Throughout the film, repeated scenes show Leila in a white dress surrounded by women in black burkas on an unidentified beach.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 El Aasar, Nihal (5 May 2025). "Ideology Ruled Her Camera". The Baffler. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
- 1 2 Hillauer, Rebecca (2005). Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. American University in Cairo Press. p. 183. ISBN 9789774249433.
- ↑ "Sabah Jabbour". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on August 24, 2021.
- ↑ Kuhn, Annette (1990). The Women's Companion to International Film. University of California Press. p. 383. ISBN 9780520088795.
- ↑ "Leila and the Wolves". Time Out. 10 September 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2017.
- ↑ Hadouchi, Olivier (2021-04-28). ""My loyalty is always with the oppressed. Whether in Africa, the Middle East or Vietnam", Olivier Hadouchi, 2020". SABZIAN.BE, TEXT (in Dutch). Retrieved 2026-06-26.
Further reading
[edit]- Ginsberg, Terri (2021-11-16). "Feminist Auratics and the Radical Re-envisioning of Revolutionary Militancy". Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour: Studies in Palestine Solidarity Cinema. Springer International Publishing. pp. 19–49. ISBN 978-3-030-85353-2.
- Saglier, Viviane (2022-01-01). "Decolonization, Disenchantment, and Arab Feminist Genealogies of Worldmaking". Feminist Media Histories. 8 (1): 72–101. doi:10.1525/fmh.2022.8.1.72. ISSN 2373-7492.
- Westmoreland, Mark (2020-09-15). Ginsberg, Terri; Lippard, Chris (eds.). Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 310–311. ISBN 978-1-5381-3905-9. Retrieved 2025-01-15.
- Hillauer, Rebecca (2005). Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. American University in Cairo Press. pp. 184–187. ISBN 978-977-424-943-3. Retrieved 2025-01-09.
- Hérody, Élias (2025-05-07). "« Elles n'existent pas » - sur Leïla et les loups d'Heiny Srour - AOC media". AOC media - Analyse Opinion Critique (in French). Retrieved 2026-06-26.
- Chessel, Luc (7 May 2025). "«Leila et les loups» de Heiny Srour : mille et un cris". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2025-10-28.
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