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Mai Masri

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0150574/

Life

Born 1942 in Lebanon (village of Sarʻeen in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley) , his father died when he was young and was raised primarily by his mother and sisters.

Began to study theater at the Lebanese university in 1965 then left to complete a masters program in arts in film. Returned to Lebanon in 1947 and brought his influences acquired by the culture of revolution in Paris during the late 1960. He began working at the Palestinian cinema institute in 1975 under the Palestine Liberation Organization in Beirut where he made films “Tel al-Za‘atar" with Palestinian filmmaker Mustafa Abu Ali, and he filmed a documentary in Cuba about Third World liberation movements, "Hymn of Liberty".

He met his wife Mai Maseri there and they married in 1986 and founded Nour Productions. They have two daughters, Nour and Hana. By the time the Israeli invasion began in 1982, and after Maseri completed her schooling at SFU, they documented the lives of women and children in the dangerous era of war. The two focused their work in documentary to film the human struggles of living under occupation During this time he also had a radio program, co hosted with famed musician and playwright Ziad Rahbani, Baaʽdna tayyibeen, qul Allah! That discussed news, commentary, and satirical skits.

He died of Alzheimer's in 2017.

Directed Works

Director

Title	Year	About	Genre	Runtime
Tall el Zaatar	1977	This film uses footage shot between the summer of 1976 and August 12th when a group of right-wing militias representing ultra-nationalists, and counter-revolutionary laid siege to a refugee camp of Tall al-Zaat in Beirut.	Documentary	18 min.
Under The Rubble	1983	Retelling of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon in Beirut. It won the Special Jury Award at the Valencia Film Festival.	Documentary
War Generation	1986	Follows the lives of three generations of people living in the war torn city of Beirut.	Documentary	50 min.
Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon	1987	Follows the fight and impact made by the women who fought against the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon	Documentary	1 h. 10 min.
Suspended Dreams	1992	Follows a link between four people, two ex-militia fighters, a woman searching for her missing husband, and a playwright, attempting to reconstruct their lives after the civil war in Lebanon.	Documentary	50 min.
Hostage of Time	1994	Returning to her village and finding the ruins left behind from the 1993 Israeli bombing of south Lebanon, a young doctor, Leila, reconnects with her family and people who attempt to rebuild their homes and lives.	Documentary	50 min.
Taif Al-Madia	2000	A Lebanese family flees to the countryside of Beirut in an attempt to escape from the ongoing civil war.	Drama	1 h. 45 min.
Women Beyond Boarders	2003	Through the life and journey of resistance fighter Kaifah Afifi this film depicts the work of Palestinian women who have joined the fight for their homeland. It accounts her survival of the 1982 Shatila Massacre, fight against Israeli occupation in the 1990s, and her imprisonment in the Khiam detention facility	Documentary	58 min.
Lanterns of Memory	2009	This film follows Wada Hilwani who formed the Committee for the Families of the Kidnapped and Missing in her attempt to rescue and bring justice for lost loves ones.	Documentary	52 min.

Produced Works

Producer

Title	Year	About	Genre	Runtime
Children of Shayla	1998	This film, directed by Mai Masri, focuses on two Palestinian children of the Shatila refugee camp who document their camp and personal narratives through their own video cameras.	Documentary	50 min
Taif Al-Madina	2000	A Lebanese family flees to the countryside of Beirut in an attempt to escape from the ongoing civil war.	Drama	1 h. 45 min
Frontiers of Dreams and Fears	2001	Directed by Mai Masri, two penpals, a girl from the Shatila refugee camp and another from the Dheisha refugee camp under Israeli control, are depicted in this film as they share their lives with one another through writing. After meeting at the Palestine-Israeli boarder the second intifada erupts and they are forced to separate.	Documentary	56 min
33 Days	2007	Documents theater director Shaif Abdunnur, graphic designer Sharif Bibi, journalist Fasia Baszzi, and director of the news desk at New Tv Mariam Bassam as they provide emergency aid and reports to aid the children of Lebanon.	Documentary	1 h. 10 min