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The Lost Film, is a 2003 Lebanese movie, directed by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. with a runtime of 42 minutes.
The Lost Film is a documentary following two filmmakers on a determined quest to recover their debut feature, a print that vanished somewhere in Yemen on the tenth anniversary of the country's reunification of north and south. A year after its disappearance, they return to trace the missing film across Yemen's challenging terrain, traveling from Sana'a to Aden through landscapes that are as politically charged as they are physically forbidding. What they encounter is a country of striking contradictions — one where cinema is publicly condemned yet privately cherished. Their search becomes a meditation on what it means to make films in the Middle East, navigating censorship, cultural tension, and the passionate underground love for storytelling that persists despite official disapproval.
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