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  • 2011
  • G
  • Paladin
  • 50 m
  • 2011
  • G
  • Paladin
  • 50 m
Grandma, a Thousand Times

Summary Grandma, A Thousand Times is a documentary that puts a feisty Beiruti grandmother at the center of brave film exercises concocted by her grandson to commemorate her many worlds before they are erased by the passage of time and her eventual death. Teta Kaabour is an 83-year old family matriarch and sharp-witted queen bee of an old Beiruti...

Directed By: Mahmoud Kaabour

  • 2011
  • G
  • Paladin
  • 50 m
  • 2011
  • G
  • Paladin
  • 50 m

Grandma, a Thousand Times

Metascore Generally Favorable
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Summary Grandma, A Thousand Times is a documentary that puts a feisty Beiruti grandmother at the center of brave film exercises concocted by her grandson to commemorate her many worlds before they are erased by the passage of time and her eventual death. Teta Kaabour is an 83-year old family matriarch and sharp-witted queen bee of an old Beiruti...

Directed By: Mahmoud Kaabour

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Feb 11, 2012
Warmhearted and defiantly unsentimental, Grandma, a Thousand Times gains lightness from Teta's tart observations.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
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Feb 11, 2012
Director Mahmoud Kaabour is Fatima's grandson, and she instantly seizes on--lightly, in her way--the guilt and panic that's inspired him to make this film.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
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Feb 11, 2012
She might not be our kin, but filmmaker Mahmoud Kaabour's anecdotal, warm-humored tribute to his grandmother - and, to a limited extent, to her cultural heritage - taps into the universal desire to hang onto loved ones in their waning years.
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Feb 11, 2012
A delightfully inventive valentine to his 83-year-old Lebanese grandmother, Mahmoud Kaabour's Grandma, a Thousand Times tenderly deconstructs the family-portrait genre, investing all manner of postmodernist distancing devices with emotional resonance.
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Production Company Doha Film Institute, Screen Institute Beirut, Veritas Films
Release Date Dec 9, 2011
Duration 50 m
Rating G
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Website http://tinyurl.com/32awls6
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Awards

Bombay International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
London International Documentary Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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