The Insult
2020
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It’s a scorching hot afternoon in Beirut. Forty-something mechanic Tony already has a chip on his shoulder about Palestinians, so he’s less than welcoming when 60 year-old Yasser, the foreman of a construction crew working on the street outside, asks him to fix the faulty drainpipe on his balcony. Tony closes the door in his face, so Yasser replaces the pipe anyway, only for Tony to smash it to pieces. Passions boil over, each man digs in, and what should have been a trivial incident easily shrugged off escalates quickly into a dispute that reverberates through their families and communities. Eventually lawyers are called in and the men find themselves in the centre of a highly publicised trial – one that reopens historical and personal wounds on both sides. **Academy Award** nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. Official Selection at the **Venice Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
Main title:
Author:
Doueiri, Ziad, actorTouma, Joelle, actorMadman Entertainment (Firm), distributorKanopy (Firm), distributor
Work:
Imprint:
Madman Entertainment, 2017.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2020.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Notes:
Title from title frames.FilmIn Process Record.Originally produced by Madman Entertainment in 2017.In English
Performers:
Joelle Touma, Ziad Doueiri
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
Arabic
BRN:
427911
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/6349662/external-image - Cover Image