Showing films to challenge, inspire and educate.
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| The Opening Night Gala: Join us at 7.30 pm in the café area of the Empire Slough for the opening of the festival and a taste of Lebanese culture. |
| In Beirut, five women meet regularly in a beauty salon, a colourful and sensual microcosm of the city where several generations come into contact, talk and confide in each other. In the salon, their intimate and liberated conversations revolve around men, sex and motherhood, between haircuts and sugar waxing with caramel. Nadine Labaki draws together a beguiling tapestry of life in modern-day Beirut and all its contradictions, as Christian and Muslim, young and old, religious and secular, all live and work side by side. These threads weave a poignant portrait of women muddling through the uncertainties of a culture caught between the modern and the traditional. |
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