![]() She becomes a subject of insult in her home village, which is seen when a shop-owner does not accept money from her, calling it "money of dishonor". Unfortunately, Lamia returns to Deir Mimas, to her and the soldier's utter disappointment. Lamia faces a great dilemma because she does not want to be with her husband but she does not want to go back either (because of Youssef). Samy warns Lamia that no one else would want her anymore if he divorces her and she would be alone forever. ![]() ![]() Both families fume at this and her binoculars are taken away.īecause of her continuous unpleasant behavior, Lamia becomes unwanted in Samy's house and she is forced to go back. ![]() Lamia is given binoculars, but instead of looking at her mother, she turns to look at Youssef and exchanges smiles with him. Samy's family gets frustrated with Lamia and takes her to the border so that she can talk to her mother. Later, during an argument with her husband, Lamia tells him that she loves someone else, who turns out to be Youssef. After Lamia comes to live in Samy's house, she barely eats or sleeps or talks this goes on for 20 days. Meanwhile, the movie reveals that an Israeli soldier, Youssef (Maher Bsaibes), stationed at the border is in love with Lamia. She keeps looking back, knowing that she may never return. Lamia hugs her family and starts her long walk towards the Israeli border in her majestic wedding gown and a lone bouquet. On the Israeli side, people wave a white flag as a signal to start. The day of the wedding, the entire village gathers at the border gates to witness Lamia being sent across the border. Before the marriage, Lamia had to get a pass from the authorities to cross the border. To conduct the wedding, since there is a no-man's land between the Lebanon side and Israel side, they communicate with each other through megaphones and can only see each other through binoculars. Similarly, Samy was not much interested in marrying his cousin either however, he agreed to the marriage because he thought it would help Lamia escape her village. She is simply a naïve young teenager who has no idea about marriage. Lamia, too, is completely reluctant to agree to the marriage because she has never seen him nor does she love him. Lamia's mother, Amira (Randa Asmar) was dejected and unwilling to send her daughter away because that meant that Lamia could never come back because of the tense political situation at the border. Her family had promised to marry her off to her cousin Samy (Edmond Haddad), who lives on the Israeli side. The 16-year-old Lebanese girl Lamia ( Flavia Bechara) lives with her family in the village. The Kite is set in a village called Deir Mimas over the border of the pre-occupied territories in southern Lebanon (occupied by Israel). Although it never received a theatrical release in the United States, the film was released to DVD in 2009 by First Run Features. The film was Lebanon's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards. Le Cerf-volant was Sabag's most commercially and critically successful movie, and her last she died in 2008. It tells the story of a fifteen-year-old Lebanese girl, from a Druze community, who is forced to marry her cousin across the Israeli border, but finds herself in love with an Israeli soldier. The Kite ( French: Le Cerf-volant, Arabic: Tayyara men wara – طيّارة من ورق) is a 2003 Lebanese film by the director Randa Chahal Sabag.
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