From the campus of Concordia University, in downtown Montreal, the activities of the “Lebanese Film Festival in Canada” kicked off on Saturday evening, June 1, under the patronage of the Consul General of Lebanon, Antoine Eid, and in the presence of the festival’s director and founder, Hi Love Hadchiti, the festival’s director of business development and legal affairs, Patricia Chamoun, and the festival’s co-founder and programming director, Sam Lahoud, in addition to the presence of a large number of artistic, media and cultural figures from Lebanon, the Arab world and of Canadian origin.