{"id":1736,"date":"2026-04-19T00:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lffcanada.com\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:18:37","slug":"southerner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lffcanada.com\/fr\/southerner\/","title":{"rendered":"Southerner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_half-2d22dc0500e159f2b39fe7a147caf14c av_one_half  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mo50jozi-463ced43bd76241cba2e0e6ea1653d98'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><section class=\"av_textblock_section av-rbvh8x-27cf23b5ee22225d49fad1ed3c78d0e4\">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock\">\n<h2><strong>Southerner<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Director<\/strong>: Joseph Sleiman<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year<\/strong>:\u00a0TBA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre<\/strong>: Short, Student<\/p>\n<p><strong>Language<\/strong>: Arabic- VOSTA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duration<\/strong>: 17 minutes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>: A journey between past and present brings me back to my hometown, Roum in Jezzine, once under the rule of the South Lebanon Army. Through my lens, I revisit childhood memories and reveal the lasting traces of occupation. Today, I carried my camera not only to document, but to tell my son Karim what history books never did. 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