The Kite (2003)

Original title

Le cerf-volant

Directed by

Randa Chahal Sabag

Genre

drama film, melodrama

Country

Lebanon, France

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 15-year-old Lebanese girl from a Druze community is forced to marry her cousin who lives on the other side of the Israeli border. She finds herself falling in love with an Israeli soldier, creating a forbidden romance that crosses political and cultural divides.

bittersweetpoignanttenseromanticslow-burnmelancholicvisually lushintimate

What happens

The Kite (French: Le Cerf-volant, Levantine Arabic: طيّارة من ورق ṭiyyāra min waraʔ) is a 2003 Lebanese film by the director Randa Chahal Sabag. It tells the story of a 15-year-old Lebanese girl, from a Druze community, who is forced to marry her cousin across the Israeli border, but finds herself in love with an Israeli soldier. Le Cerf-volant was Sabag's most commercially and critically successful movie, and her last; she died in 2008. The film was Lebanon's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards. Although it never received a theatrical release in the United States, the film was released to DVD in 2009 by First Run Features. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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