War generation, Beirut

For too many young people in the world today, war is a natural way of life – they have no other. In Lebanon, there has been civil war of one kind or another for the last thirteen years – continuous, vicious and deadly. In Beirut, children grow up on the barricades. All too soon, they change their toy guns for the real thing. For reasons that often get lost, they fight and kill their near neighbors. This film is a story of that war – seen not from a political high table but from the street corners and the sites of destroyed buildings. It was made by a husband and wife team. He is a Christian Lebanese, she is a Muslim Palestinian. They were able to work on both sides of the Green line – the barrier that divides Beirut: this is the story of some of the young people they know and live amongst in Beirut.