Languages Arabic German Russian English Hebrew Silent Farsi Japanese Spanish French Portuguese Arabic The Insult (L'insulte) Directed by Ziad Doueiri (Lebanon/Belgium/Cyprus/France/U.S., 2017, 112 min.) In today's Beirut, an insult
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