1982 (2019 film)
2019 Lebanese drama film
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1982 is a 2019 internationally co-produced drama film written and directed by Oualid Mouaness, and starring Nadine Labaki and Mohamad Dalli.[3]
- Alix Madigan
- Oualid Mouaness
- Myriam Sassine
- Georges Schoucair
- Christopher Tricarico
- Nadine Labaki
- Mohamad Dalli
- Gia Madi
- Rodrigue Sleiman
- Aliya Khalidi
- Ghassan Maalouf
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| Directed by | Oualid Mouaness |
| Written by | Oualid Mouaness |
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| Cinematography | Brian Rigney Hubbard |
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| Music by | Nadim Mishlawi |
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| Distributed by | MC Distribution |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
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| Box office | $60,751[2] |
The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere.[4] It was selected as the Lebanese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.[5][6] It won the 2021 Cannes Film Festival Young Cinema sidebar {Prix Cannes Ecrans Juniors 2021}.[7]
Plot
Set against the beginning of the 1982 Lebanon War, the film stars Nadine Labaki as Yesmine, a schoolteacher in Beirut, and Mohamad Dalli as Wissam, a young boy in her class who is trying to find the courage to tell his classmate Joanna (Gia Madi) that he has a crush on her.[8]
Production
1982 was produced by companies based in Lebanon, Norway, France and Qatar. North American digital, ancillary & broadcast rights were purchased by Utopia. North American theatrical, events & educational rights are held by Tricycle Logic.
