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The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs presents the film
The Soil & the Sea
We are excited to announce a screening of The Soil & the Sea, directed by Daniele Rugo, followed by a Q&A with the director.
Please check out the film’s website.
The Soil and the Sea unveils the violent histories lying beneath a garden, a school, a luxury hotel, the sea and other unremarkable landscapes. These anonymous places contain the remains of some of the 17,000 people who disappeared during Lebanon’s Civil War. As the camera patiently interrogates the spaces, voices of eyewitnesses, relatives, former detainees and survivors fill them with fragmentary stories of kidnapping, torture, and mass burial.
Nearly 30 years after the end of the war, families in Lebanon have been unable to find answers about the fate of their loved ones. However, the creation of a National Commission for the Disappeared in 2020 has injected new hope that these sites will be investigated and that remains will one day be returned to families awaiting a bone to bury. This documentary stands as the first record of these sites, threatened by neglect, real estate developments, and oblivion.
Link: https://sites.harvard.edu/wrc22-identity-politics/calendar_event/the-soil-the-sea-a-film-screening/
Co-sponsor: Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Contact: identitypolitics@wcfia.harvard.edu