LONDON PALESTINE FILM FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 13-26, 2020

BARBICAN CINEMA ON DEMAND | LPFF Vimeo On Demand

1982
Oualid Mouaness | 2019 | 100’

13 - 26 November
Barbican Cinema on Demand

On the last day of school in June 1982, 11-year-old Wissam wants to tell his crush Joanna that he loves her. 
However, this heart-stopping pursuit is marred by that fact that war is inching closer and closer. From their classrooms in the mountains on the outskirts of Beirut, the children see warplanes overhead and an imminent invasion. Starring actress and Oscar-nominated director Nadine Labaki as Yasmine, the schoolteacher trying to keep calm in the face of cataclysmic brink,1982 is a semi-autobiographical first feature by Lebanese director Oualid Mouaness, that brings us the story of looming war through the innocent eyes of a child in love for the first time.