Sleepless Nights

Director
Eliane Raheb

Countries

Year
2012

Duration
128 min

Language

Subtitles
English

“Sleepless” are the nights of Assaad Shaftari, the former high-ranking intelligence officer in the Lebanese Forces militia, who feels guilt for his bloody acts during the civil war, and the nights of Maryam Saidi, who’s still searching for her son Maher, a young Communist fighter who disappeared in 1982. While each of them is looking for salvation, the film asks if redemption and forgiveness are possible in a community that seems unable to heal itself.