The Kite (2003): Cast & Plot

In the border village of Deir Mimas, tucked along the southern edge of Lebanon’s occupied territories, 16-year-old Lamia, Flavia Bechara, grows up under the quiet weight of tradition and a tense political reality. Her family has arranged a marriage to her cousin Samy, Edmond Haddad, who lives across the border in Israel, a plan her mother Amira, Randa Asmar reluctantly supports because the volatile frontier makes Lamia’s return uncertain at best. Lamia herself is hesitant and unsure about marriage—she has never met Samy and has no real sense of love or choice in the matter—while Samy does not pursue the union out of passion but, perhaps, as a means to help Lamia escape the confines of her village.