DATE: 2011

DURATION: 52 minutes

SUBJECT:  Citizenship / Civil Rights

LOCATION: Lebanon / Canada

LANGUAGE: Arabic with English subtitles

 

 

SYNOPSIS

 

"Koulouna lil Watan" (All For The Nation) focuses on a particular Lebanese nationality law, which stipulates that Lebanese women who choose to marry a foreigner are not allowed to extend their Lebanese citizenship to their husbands and children. Without citizenship, those families lose their social, civil and economic rights.

 

"Koulouna lil Watan"(All For The Nation) is told through the intimate stories of five Lebanese families from different religious and socio-economic backgrounds but whose lives and experiences are inextricably linked by a discriminatory and senseless nationality law.