{"id":7010,"date":"2017-02-07T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T09:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=7010"},"modified":"2017-02-07T11:01:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T09:01:59","slug":"2016-int-womens-film-festival-award-best-leading-actor-sam-khourylebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2017\/02\/2016-int-womens-film-festival-award-best-leading-actor-sam-khourylebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Int. Women\u2019s Film Festival Award: Best leading actor Sam Khoury\/Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the closing ceremony of \u201cthe 4th International Women\u2019s Film Festival \u2013 Herat\u201d held in Kabul, Afghanistan on 22 Oct. 2016 the winners of this edition of the\u00a0festival were announced.<br \/>\nSam Khoury from Lebanon was awarded as the best leading actor in the film &#8220;The Blind of the Cathedral&#8221;\u00a0directed by Nadine Asmar\u00a0by the international jury.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/khuri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7011\" src=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/khuri-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/khuri-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/khuri.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Blind of the Cathedral<\/span><br \/>\n<\/b>Original Title: L\u2019aveugle de la Cath\u00e9drale<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Director: <strong>Nadine Asmar<\/strong>, Lebanon<br \/>\nLeading Actor: <strong>Sam Khoury<\/strong><br \/>\nGenre: Social Drama<br \/>\nDate &amp; Country of Production: 2015, Lebanon<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Language: Arabic<br \/>\nDuration: 17 minutes <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Synopsis: <\/b>In front of a cathedral, fate leads to Hala and Bachir\u2019s meeting.<br \/>\nAt first sight, they share nothing in common: she is a -15year-old student, a Muslim and she sees. Whereas Bachir is 27, he plays the lute, is a Christian and blind. Two pure souls meet in a country ruled by hatred and conflicts, division and sectarianism, and just before the burst of the civil war. Hala and Bachir will go through an adventure that will empower their innocent love. But a dark fate awaits them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-09.40.16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7012 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-09.40.16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Director\u2019s Biography and Filmography<\/span><br \/>\nNadine Asmar<\/b>, born 1994, is<br \/>\nan aspiring Lebanese director, freelance photographer, producer, editor and movie blogger, with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Audiovisual Media from the Lebanese University. The Blind of the Cathedral is her graduation movie. She was praised for several academic shorts: \u00abDans mon cocon\u00bb featured in Brooklyn- based We Are Temporary\u2019s \u00abYou Can Now Let Go\u00bb, and \u00abYingtai\u00bb, a Chinese short. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/140214059\">Watch Film Trailer\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Khoury from Lebanon was awarded as the best leading actor in the film &#8220;The Blind of the Cathedral&#8221; directed by Nadine Asmar by the international jury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,66,11,88,17,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-geography","category-international-womens-film-festival","category-issues","category-slider","category-women","category-world","country-afghanistan","country-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7015,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions\/7015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}