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Leila and the Wolves

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Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic pattern, Leila and the Wolves combines fictional drama, archival footage, and fantasy sequences to explore the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in history throughout the past half-century both in Palestine and in Lebanon.

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Kyle Logan

Chicago Reader

One of the most devastatingly timely films about the history of Palestinian and Lebanese women.

Apr 11, 2025

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Joshua Polanski

In Review Online

Leila and the Wolves... holds a special place within that tradition of boundary-pushing Leftist filmmaking from the Arab Levant.

Apr 3, 2025

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Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

It’s also striking to think that when Leila is looking forward into the future, she is already, in some senses, looking at our recent past, which only reinforces the sense of the cyclical and ongoing nature of her themes.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 31, 2025

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Nadine Whitney

The Curb

Heiny Sror’s master work Leila and the Wolves (Leila wa al ziap) is a piece of resistance and feminism where culture, identity, and gender are moving in a ouroboros-like cycle.

Rated: A

Mar 27, 2025

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Nora Lee Mandel

Maven's Nest

Restoration of 1984 feminist re-imagining and re-enactments that time-travels two centuries of Lebanese/Palestinian/Middle Eastern herstory by Jewish/Arab/Lebanese auteur filmmaker that is, as she says "more relevant than ever", and even prophetic.

Rated: 8/10

Mar 25, 2025

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

A great and necessary feminist film.

Mar 18, 2025

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Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic pattern, Leila and the Wolves combines fictional drama, archival footage, and fantasy sequences to explore the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in history throughout the past half-century both in Palestine and in Lebanon.

Director: Heiny Srour
Producer: Heiny Srour
Screenwriter: Heiny Srour
Distributor: Several Futures
Production Co: British Film Institute, Leila Films, Ministère Nationale et de la Culture Française, NCO, NOVIB, Lebanese Ministry of Tourism, Swedish International Development Authority
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Original Language: Arabic
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 14, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 30m