Where Do We Go Now? (2011) on Netflix
Muslims and Christians share a remote Lebanese village ringed by landmines. The women work to keep their men from fighting as civil strife closes in.
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- Rotten Tomatoes53%
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Plot summary
A remote Lebanese village, reachable only by a small bridge and ringed by landmines, is home to both Muslims and Christians. Roukoz and his cousin Nassim cross the bridge to bring back soap, utensils and newspapers. When Roukoz falls from a ladder while fixing the church speakers and snaps the cross in half, the priest tells the congregation the wind was to blame. The imam finds goats inside the mosque and asks his people not to hold the Christians responsible, but a scuffle breaks out. As the country's civil strife draws nearer, the village women turn to sabotage, taking apart the radio and the television and hiring dancers, all to keep the men apart.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Where Do We Go Now? (2011)
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- Where Do We Go Now? was the highest-grossing Lebanese film and the highest-grossing Arabic film, taking $21 million worldwide, until Nadine Labaki's own Capernaum (2018) overtook it.
- Sam Nessim co-wrote the film with Nadine Labaki and shot its first stills, and at 18 was set to be its director of photography, but school kept him away from the shoot, so Christophe Offenstein took over.
- The film was shot in Taybeh, a village near Baalbek, picked because it has a church next to a mosque; other locations included Meshmesh, Douma and Jeita's Church Al-Saydeh.
