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|  | | Beirut in Shades of Grey
Two souls brought together by love are distanced by the challenges of living with conflicting social values during times of extreme political stress. Rasha Halwani, a victim of the Lebanese civil war, and Luke Elliott, a British photojournalist, begin a clandestine romance while on vacation in Paris. However, the tranquility of their previous encounters quickly dissipates when Luke’s unannounced arrival on Rasha’s doorstep in Beirut incites a wrangle over cultural differences and polarized attitudes towards war. Once certain of her values and her role as a woman in late 20th-century Islamic society, Rasha finds herself stymied by the choices before her and the ramifications of pursuing a life with this Westerner.
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On the remote island of Puerto Franco, young Leah wades into the sea and disappears. Her body is never found. Thirty years later, visual artist Mar arrives on the island with her daughter, Lemay. She anticipates a haven where she can work on her craft, away from her controlling and womanizing husband.
Instead, Mar finds herself in the midst of a close-knit community haunted by the curse of Puerto Franco. Visitations from Leah’s spirit and a growing love for the dead girl’s brother Sebastian, draw Mar into an undercurrent of obsessive love, hatred, and revenge.
p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal">span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA">font size="3">font face="Times New Roman">On a still summer’s day on the st1:place w:st="on">st1:placetype w:st="on">island/st1:placetype> of st1:placename w:st="on">Puerto Franco/st1:placename>/st1:place>, darkness falls after eleven-year-old Leah wades into the sea and disappears. For days, her distraught mother Cristina and her little boy Sebastian watch the search boats scour the waters for the missing girl. Leah is not found. Sickened and devastated by the fishermen’s decision to ca | |  | | The Memory of Loss
"Where's the harm in self-deceit if it makes us happy?"
Movie buff Nadine Hall has landed the perfect job as a caregiver for an archaeologist in Mougins, near Cannes, shortly before the film festival. But her blissful existence with her charge, Lilly Somerville, and her sister Viv who suffers from dementia, is soon shattered with the arrival of Lilly’s daughter, Katrina, who wants Nadine gone. Emotionally and mentally scarred following a personal tragedy, Nadine can hardly cope with the unpleasant chain of events. When she is entrusted by an antiquarian to return a package to Lilly–mistakenly placed among a collection of books she had given to him– |
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