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How The Beirut Film Festival Was Censored
October 15, 2010 · Mustapha Hamoui
Natasha choufani gives a first person account of what happened in the Beirut International Film Festival, regarding the censorship of two (not one) movies. Here’s an amusing detail:
The General Security gave a “verbal message” to the organizers of the Lebanese Film Festival as well as the Beirut International Film Festival that although they “liked” the film, they found it too controversial.
Sensitive souls they are..