Avant Premiere of Bil Halal

So when you hear about a new upcoming Lebanese movie that talks about marriage in Islam, you would suddenly lose interest and expect a reinforcement of our Lebanese sectarian system, and if you decided to give it a shot and watch the movie, you would be waiting for offensive terms towards religion and God to criticize and bash the whole movie. Well, that was what I was expecting, and surprisingly, I was so wrong.

Bel Halal, is indeed a movie that examines a religious lifestyle; however, its comic mood as it swirls around the four realistic stories portrayed in this movie keeps your eyes attached to the screen for it illustrates not the conventional but the utopic kind of reality.

The media’s propaganda about Islam along with all the recent terrorist events has led to an increase in Islamophobia. People now associate terrorism and misogyny with this religion, while Bel Halal smoothly removes these thoughts from the audience’s minds.