Look Again. Jan 19 – 29, 2012 Park City, Utah

A striking follow-up to her 2007 international hit, Caramel, Nadine Labaki’s musical comedy Where Do We Go Now? offers a wildly creative take on the intractable religious conflict in Lebanon.

Fed up with mourning their husbands and sons, the women of a remote Lebanese village, where Christians and Muslims live side by side, concoct radically inventive schemes to prevent sectarian violence from further corrupting their loved ones. To quash interreligious conflicts, the women are not above sabotaging the village’s sole television, colluding with the priest and imam, nor enlisting a busload of sexy Ukrainian strippers to distract their men.

Through Labaki’s wonderfully insightful comic eye, Where Do We Go Now? confronts the hard truths of Lebanon’s fractured society, offering an alternate vision of transcendence and unity. Spirited musical sequences capture the magical qualities of this place and these people, illuminating the absurd nature of a war between brothers.

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Born in 1974 in Lebanon, Nadine Labaki received a degree in film studies from Beirut’s Saint Joseph University (IESAV). Her film, 11 Rue Pasteur (1997), was named the best short film at the Biennale of Arab Cinema (1998). In 2004 she participated in the Résidence at Cannes. There she finished writing Caramel, her first feature film, which was presented at the 2007 Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. In 2009 she gave birth to a son and wrote Where Do We Go Now? (2011), her second feature film.