Toast the Allies

A family history as a collection of possible narrations: Monira Al Solh constructs her autobiographical film as a number of beginnings of stories which could be told this way or many other ways. “In this work, I lay the impossibility to make a work about my family members and their histories in a film, by creating narratives which I fictionalize partly, in order to distance myself from the pretention that facts can be narrated in one way, and in order to assimilate those family traumas, related to a harsh, criminal and sexist political and social ground.” (Monira al Solh)

  • Duration: 34 Min.
  • Countries: Lebanon / Netherlands
  • Languages: Arabic, English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Production year: 2019

  • Director: Mounira Al Solh
  • Production: Al Solh
  • Sound: Mounira Al Solh
  • Music: Ala Babi Waqef Qamarein Melhem Barakat, Roummaneh Palestinian popular resistance song from Beirut the 1980s