Insult

Winner
Volpi Cup ~ Best Actor
Venice Film Festival
Nominee
Golden Lion
Venice Film Festival
Nominee
Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Awards
Gripping entertainment, passionate and humane, fascinating in the particulars.
-- Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice

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The Insult

In today’s Beirut, a civilian dispute blown out of proportion finds Tony (Adel Karam), a Lebanese Christian, and Yasser (Kamel El Basha), a Palestinian refugee, facing off in court. As the media circus surrounding the case threatens a social explosion in divided Lebanon, Tony and Yasser reconsider their values and beliefs as revelations of trauma complicate their understanding of one another.

2017 Official Oscar® Entry – Lebanon
Best Foreign Language Film
Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 2017:
Winner, Best Actor (Kamel El Basha)
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2017
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2017
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Genre
Drama
Runtime
112
Language
Arabic
Director
Ziad Doueiri
Cast
Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha
Awards:
Winner, Volpi Cup ~ Best Actor, Venice Film Festival
Nominee, Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival
Nominee, Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards
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FEATURED REVIEW
Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times

The spat that kicks off “The Insult” (“L’insulte”) an engrossingly blunt instrument of a movie from Lebanese writer-director Ziad Doueiri, concerns an illegal drainpipe on an apartment balcony. Some gutter language, so to speak, ensues. Yasser Salameh (Kamel El Basha), a foreman tasked with building ...

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