Leila and the Wolves

Leila and the Wolves (Arabic: ليلى والذئاب) is a 1984 drama film from Lebanese director Heiny Srour^[2] and assistant director Sabah Jabbour.^[3]

It was filmed in often treacherous areas and the filming lasted seven years.^[4] In the film, the protagonist Leila, a modern Lebanese woman living in London, time travels through the 1900s to the 1980s, with each trip focusing on the centrality of women in Palestinian and Lebanese resistance movements.^[5] The film won the Grand Prize in the Third World competition at the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg.^[2]

In present day London, Leila is preparing for a photography exhibit on Palestine. She takes her partner Rafiq a historical tour of Palestinian and Lebanese history, showing the imagined role of women in these events. The film depicts the 1936–1939 Palestinian revolt, the Deir Yassin massacre, and the Lebanese Civil War. Throughout the film, repeated scenes show Leila in a white dress surrounded by women in black burkas on an unidentified beach.^[1]

• Terri Ginsberg, Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour: Studies in Palestine Solidarity Cinema, Palgrave, 2021 ; see, p. 19-49, first chapter.
• Viviane Saglier, « Decolonization, Disenchantment, and Arab Feminist Genealogies », Feminist Media Histories 8(1), January 2022, p. 72-101, DOI:10.1525/fmh.2022.8.1.72 read online
• Mark Westmoreland, «Leila and the Wolves», Ginsberg, Terri; Lippard, Chris (2020-09-15). Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-3905-9. Retrieved 2025-01-15., p. 310-311.
• «Leila and the Wolves», Hillauer, Rebecca (2005). Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-977-424-943-3. Retrieved 2025-01-09., p. 184-187.

• Leila and the Wolves at IMDb 

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