1975
Kafr Kassem
A landmark historical work that remains central to Borhane Alaouié’s cinematic legacy.
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Borhane Alaouié
1941 — 2021
A filmmaker of memory, witness, and place whose work continues to shape conversations around Lebanese and Arab cinema.
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Biography
Life, memory, and witness
Borhane Alaouié was a Lebanese filmmaker whose cinema remains inseparable from questions of memory, conflict, exile, and the emotional life of place.
This memorial website honors his life and artistic contribution through remembrance, film history, and a commitment to preserving and circulating his work for new audiences.
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Works that continue to speak
Three films stand here as entry points into a wider legacy of cinematic thought, political memory, and cultural transmission.
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Beirut the Encounter
A defining film of divided Beirut, memory, and impossible connection during the Lebanese Civil War.
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Khalass
A later work that carries forward his attention to conflict, exhaustion, and the emotional residue of war.
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Memory and culture
Borhane Alaouié’s films belong not only to film history, but also to the broader cultural memory of Lebanon and the Arab world.
To preserve these films is to preserve a living heritage whose meaning continues to grow as new generations encounter them in cinemas, archives, classrooms, and public conversation.
Archive, Remembrance and Continuation
The renovation of Borhane Alaouié's films
This project is dedicated to the renovation of Borhane Alaouié's films and to the safeguarding of a cinematic legacy that belongs to memory and culture.
All donations will go towards the renovation of the films, supporting heritage conservation and helping make this important body of work available to you and to future generations.
Through restoration, preservation, screenings, and archives, we hope to ensure that these films continue to live in public view rather than disappear from circulation.
This effort is not only about protecting reels, files, or objects. It is about protecting the histories, emotions, voices, and images carried by the films themselves.
Screenings and archives are part of that continuation. They give the films renewed life in cinemas, cultural institutions, research spaces, and among audiences encountering Borhane Alaouié’s work for the first time.
Screenings and archives
Circulation and public access
This section can hold screening announcements, archival partnerships, restoration updates, and links to retrospective programs or restored editions.
Public screenings
Use this area for upcoming screenings, festival appearances, museum programs, and discussion events connected to Borhane Alaouié’s films.
Archive access
Use this area for archive notes, restoration updates, research materials, partner institutions, and access information for scholars, programmers, and audiences.