Beirut: The Last Home Movie

Beirut: The Last Home Movie
Beirut: The Last Home Movie
	Film poster
Directed by	Jennifer Fox
Written by	Jennifer Fox; John Mullen
Cinematography	Alex Nepomniaschy
Edited by	John Mullen
Music by	Lanny Meyers; Ziad Rahbani
Release date	1987 (London Film Festival);
Running time	123 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Beirut: The Last Home Movie is a 1987 documentary film directed by Jennifer Fox. It follows the life of Gaby Bustros and her family, who live in a 200-year-old mansion in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. The Bustros family, one of the noble families of Beirut, remain in their ancestral home despite the endless war that surrounds them.^[1]

Exhibition[]

The film was screened at the Berlin Film Festival, the London Film Festival, and at INPUT, the . It was broadcast on US television as a Frontline special on PBS in 1991.^[2] The film was awarded the Excellence In Cinematography Award and won the Grand Jury Prize Documentary at the 1988 Sundance Film Festival.^[3]

Awards[]

Sundance Film Festival Best Cinematography^[3]
- Multimedia Best Screenplay^{[citation needed]}
- Press Award^{[citation needed]}
- Golden Eagle Award^{[citation needed]}
San Francisco Film Festival - Golden Gate Award^{[citation needed]}
Cinéma du Réel (Paris) - Grand Prix^{[citation needed]}

References[]

^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-11-11. Retrieved 2007-02-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2011-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Sundance Institute".

External links[]

Preceded by Sherman's March	Sundance Grand Jury Prize: Documentary 1988	Succeeded by For All Mankind

This article about a war documentary film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

[1] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-11-11. Retrieved 2007-02-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2011-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[sundance-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Sundance Institute".

[1]

[2]

[3]