Sector Zero

At a glance

Sector Zero, is a 2011 Lebanese movie, directed by Nadim Mishlawi, and starring Nadim Mishlawi, Bernard Khoury, Chawki Azoury. with a runtime of 64 minutes.

Overview

Sector Zero is a Lebanese documentary that uses the notorious, now-abandoned district of Karantina in Beirut as a metaphor for Lebanon's own deeply troubled history. Rather than a straightforward historical record, the film ventures into the dark corners of modern Lebanon's collective memory, probing how the denial of national trauma has driven the Lebanese people into a recurring downward spiral. Positioned between documentary, poetry, and essay cinema, Sector Zero asks a haunting question: how much of who we are is built on what we have chosen to forget?

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