The Lebanese Rocket Society

Director
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
Producer
Abbout Productions & Mille et Une Productions
Year
2012
Spoken
Arabic
English
Subtitle
Arabic
English
French
Country
Lebanon
Length
93
Format
DVD
Off
Description

In the early 1960’s, a group of students from the Haigazian University led by their mathematics professor, Manoug Manougian, designed and launched rockets to study and understand space exploration. Although the program was successful, it came to a sudden end in 1967 and was erased from the collective memory. Through testimonies and archive documents, the film retraces this adventure and attempts to revive the past in the present as a tribute to dreamers.