Remembering The Civil War in Today’s Lebanese Cinema

In the aftermath of the civil war, memory and trauma are a prominent thema in Lebanese cinema. This study aims to explore how the civil war is remembered through cinema in contemporary Lebanese cinema, based on an analysis of the films Where Do We Go Now?, Tramontane, The Insult and Memory Box. Thes...

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Published in:CINEJ cinema journal Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 335 - 371
Main Authors: Evecen, Gökhan, Serter, Sırrı Serhat
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 01.12.2025
University of Pittsburgh
Subjects:
Civil war
Collective memory
Collective trauma
Consciousness
Influence
Lebanese cinema
Lebanese civil war
Motion picture directors & producers
Motion pictures
Narratives
Past
War
Lebanon
ISSN:2158-8724, 2159-2411, 2158-8724
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Summary:In the aftermath of the civil war, memory and trauma are a prominent thema in Lebanese cinema. This study aims to explore how the civil war is remembered through cinema in contemporary Lebanese cinema, based on an analysis of the films Where Do We Go Now?, Tramontane, The Insult and Memory Box. These films, selected from among the films made in Lebanon after 2010 by Lebanese directors and dealing with the civil war, were analysed through descriptive analysis under the themes of past, identity, trauma and space. The films under scrutiny serve as conduits for the articulation of remembrance, both as a means of confronting past traumas and of reflecting upon the present. The act of remembering the past and confronting traumas is rendered through the medium of personal recollections by the directors, thus creating a narrative of collective memory. When the subject of the civil war is represented in films, it is commonly remembered as “the past in the present”.
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ISSN:2158-8724
2159-2411
2158-8724
DOI:10.5195/cinej.2025.714