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Mashrou' Leila 'Cavalry' by Jessy Moussallem

Promo News - 12th June 2019

Cavalry is the lead single from The Beirut School, a new compilation celebrating ten years of trailblazing Lebanese indie band Mashrou’ Leila. The accompanying video is the band’s second collaboration with director Jessy Moussallem, following her award-winning film for Roman. This is a far more gritty and harrowing affair. 

Moussalem dramatises the devastating cruelty and machismo of militarized oppression, which enters our homes, and plays out in our domestic life, by having a group of young girls from a Lebanese village confront a platoon of soldiers who taken away a 15 year old boy

Calling to mind Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian teenager arrested outside her home for confronting Israeli soldiers, and thrown into the public gaze as an activist, the children in the film reflect Mashrou’ Leila’s own struggles with political power, having recently been banned from being with their audiences in Jordan and Egypt, and finding themselves at the center of yet another human rights polemic.

The film reminds us perhaps of the energized idealism we had as youths coming into the world, and believing we could change it, before political fatigue left us jaded and defeated.

Promo News - 12th June 2019

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  • Drama
  • Narrative
  • Indie

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Jessy Moussallem
Producer
Wissam Smayra, Marlene Jaber, Olivier Muller, Sorcha Shepherd, Jakob Preischl, Hadi Dahrouge
Production Company
Clandestino Films, Phantasm, Caviar, Bwgtbld, Mathematic
Production Manager
Marie-lynn Nasrallah
1st AD
Amanda Kik

Camera

Director of Photography
Sofian El Fani
Focus Puller
Jonathan Saccal

Art

Art Director
Carlo Kassabian

Wardrobe

Wardrobe
Ola Achkar

Casting

Lead actor
Ayman Hamawi

Editorial

Editor
Tianès Montasser

Grading

Colourist
Mathieu Caplanne

Other credits

Location Manager

Jad Nehmeh

Sound Engineer

Rawad Hobeika

Sound Mix

Studio KGB

Nicolas Bourgeois

BMM Network

Alexis Jung, Joseph Petitpain

Promo News - 12th June 2019

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