Caramel critically acclaimed. A hit at the Cannes Film Festival this past year, Caramel went on to win the Audience Award at The San Sebastian\u00a0 Film Festival. And it is Lebanon’s Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards next month.<\/p>\n
Caramel is an Lebanese film that is not only directed by a woman, it also features an all-women cast. This is, in and of itself, an exceptional achievement.<\/p>\n
It is utterly charming. Caramel centers around five women whose lives intersect in a beauty salon, a colorful and sensual microcosm of\u00a0 Beirut. The salon is a place where several generations come into contact, talk and confide in each other. Between haircuts and sugar waxing with caramel, they engage in intimate and liberated conversations that reveal
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Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, it marks one of the widest U.S.\u00a0 theatrical releases of a film from an Arab nation in recent years.<\/p>\n
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Supporting this film sends a message to the film industry that there is a viable market for films from this part of the world. It also affords those outside the Lebanese community an opportunity to gain a wider perspective on a region of the world that most know far too little about.<\/p>\n
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Films like Caramel remind us that our similarities oftentimes vastly outweigh our differences.<\/p>\n
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