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2022
Oscilloscope
1 h 19 m

2022
Oscilloscope
1 h 19 m

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 foundi...

Directed By: Rita Baghdadi

Written By: Rita Baghdadi

2022
Oscilloscope
1 h 19 m

2022
Oscilloscope
1 h 19 m

Sirens

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews

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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 foundi...

Directed By: Rita Baghdadi

Written By: Rita Baghdadi

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Shery Bechara

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Tatyana Boughaba

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Alma Doumani

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Maya Khairallah

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Lilas Mayassi

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews

82% Positive
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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.

By Jude Dry FULL REVIEW

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.

By Lena Wilson FULL REVIEW

Oct 7, 2022

It reaches past the usual rock clichés to recognize that the struggle these women face is more immediate than striving to perform for sold-out crowds or become signed by a label. This is about surviving a chaotic environment marked by past violence while still entrenched in present-day political revolution.

By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

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.

By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW

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.

By Clint Worthington FULL REVIEW

Jan 26, 2023

Sirens is an engaging behind-the-scenes doc about this band.

By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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.

By Jonathan Christian FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Animal Pictures, Endless Eye Productions, Lady & Bird Films

Release Date Sep 30, 2022

Duration 1 h 19 m

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Website https://www.facebook.com/Sirens-the-Movie-2405274449544742/?modal=admin_todo_tour

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Awards

Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

Florida Film Festival

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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