1982 (2019 film)


1982 is a Lebanese drama film, directed by Oualid Mouaness and released in 2019.
The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere. It was selected as the Lebanese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

Plot

Set against the beginning of the 1982 Lebanon War, the film stars Nadine Labaki as Yasmine, a schoolteacher in Beirut, and Mohamad Dalli as Wissam, a young boy in her class who is trying to find the courage to tell his classmate Joana that he has a crush on her.