Sirens

Name: Sirens
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 30, 2022
Duration: 79 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Lilas Mayassi, Shery Bechara

2022

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Oscilloscope | Release Date: September 30, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Lilas Mayassi, Shery Bechara

Summary: Sirens chronicles the lives and music of Slave to Sirens, a band made up of five young metalheads whose burgeoning fame is set against the backdrop of the Lebanese revolution. Its members wrestle with friendship, sexuality, and destruction as their music serves as a refuge to Beirut’s youth culture. At the band’s core are its two foundingSirens chronicles the lives and music of Slave to Sirens, a band made up of five young metalheads whose burgeoning fame is set against the backdrop of the Lebanese revolution. Its members wrestle with friendship, sexuality, and destruction as their music serves as a refuge to Beirut’s youth culture. At the band’s core are its two founding members, Lilas Mayassi and Shery Bechara, whose complicated relationship and subsequent tense fallout threatens the very fabric of the band. An even greater looming threat, however, is Lebanon’s criminalization of homosexuality, as well as the wholly devastating effects of their country’s political regime. Despite their obvious challenges, the members of Slave to Sirens persist in trying to create a revolution of their own: living their truth.… Expand

Director: Rita Baghdadi

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 79 min

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IndieWire Jude Dry

With the band’s headstrong co-founders leading their tale, Sirens is a powerful reminder that punk isn’t dead if you know where to look. Read full review

Lena Wilson

Oct 2, 2022

Baghdadi has harnessed something truly special. Like its fractious characters, Sirens is both humble and arresting, relatable and unique. It will stay with you long after the band has played their final chords. Read full review

Shayna Maci Warner

Oct 3, 2022

Rita Baghdadi’s new documentary Sirens is a smartly crafted, hugely entertaining look at the band as it goes through growing pains, fights for bookings, and navigates inter-band dyke drama against the backdrop of a city under constant threat of attack. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Sep 8, 2022

Wanting more is a criticism, but it’s a luxury criticism. This documentary builds a world you want to explore further. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Sep 29, 2022

The ending, in which the reunited Sirens play before an enthusiastic crowd, is heart-tugging and rousing, even for non-metal heads. Read full review

Clint Worthington

Sep 8, 2022

For as choppy as Sirens can be in its too-short 78-minute runtime, it’s easy to chalk that up to the difficulties of filming during COVID. But what we do get is certainly crowd-pleasing, a riotous doc that combines likable personalities with thrumming guitar licks and its subjects’ relatable yearning to find their voice and their power. Read full review

The Playlist Jonathan Christian

Sep 8, 2022

Baghdadi’s affection for cherishing quaint moments overwhelms the opportunity to fuse the band’s affable charm to a well-rounded depiction of modern-day Middle Eastern women existing on the fringes of their culture. Read full review

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