Lebanese Org. Release Maroun Baghdadi Box-Set  Helmer was
pioneer of new Lebanese cinema  The Fondation Liban Cinema is
paying tribute to late great Lebanese helmer Maroun Baghdadi
with a boxed set of the entire body of work by the auteur, who
worked with Francis Ford Coppola and is considered the pioneer
of new Lebanese cinema.  Baghdadi, known for pics that vividly
portrayed Lebanon’s civil war, such as “Little Wars,” which
screened at Cannes in 1982, is the only helmer from Lebanon to
win a prize at the fest, where his 1991“Out of Life,” about a
French photographer kidnapped in Beirut, took the Cannes Jury
Prize. He died in 1993 when he was 43.  The Baghdadi box set has
been curated by Beirut-based cultural preservation org. Nadi
Lekol El Nas, which will unveil it in Beirut on June 7 and sell
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