Sirens
So rhythmic and well-edited that you could mistake it for a carefully plotted scripted film.
Sirens
SIRENS intimately chronicles the lives and music of Slave to Sirens, a band made up of five young metalheads whose burgeoning fame is set against the backdrop of the Lebanese revolution. Its members wrestle with friendship, sexuality, and destruction as their music serves as a refuge to Beirut’s youth culture.
At the band’s core are its two founding members, Lilas Mayassi and Shery Bechara, whose complicated relationship and subsequent tense fallout threatens the very fabric of the band. An even greater looming threat, however, is Lebanon’s criminalization of homosexuality, as well as the wholly devastating effects of their country’s political regime.
Despite their obvious challenges, the members of Slave to Sirens persist in trying to create a revolution of their own: living their truth.
Official Selection: 2022 Sundance Film Festival
At the band’s core are its two founding members, Lilas Mayassi and Shery Bechara, whose complicated relationship and subsequent tense fallout threatens the very fabric of the band. An even greater looming threat, however, is Lebanon’s criminalization of homosexuality, as well as the wholly devastating effects of their country’s political regime.
Despite their obvious challenges, the members of Slave to Sirens persist in trying to create a revolution of their own: living their truth.
Official Selection: 2022 Sundance Film Festival
Genre
Documentary,
Music,
Rock Doc
Runtime
79
Language
English,
Arabic
Director
Rita Baghdadi
Awards:
Winner, Grandy Jury Prize ~ Outstanding Documentary Feature, L.A. Outfest
Nominee, Grand Jury Prize ~ World Cinema: Documentary, Sundance Film Festival
Played at
Royal 10.07.22 - 10.13.22
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