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Rita Baghdadi, 2022, Lebanon/US/UK, 80 min
Sirens intimately chronicles the lives and music of Slave to Sirens, a young all-female metal band 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. The complicated relationship and subsequent tense fallout of founders Lilas Mayassi and Shery Bechara threatens the very fabric of the band, but an even greater looming threat is Lebanon’s criminalization of homosexuality, and the devastating effects of the country’s political corruption. Yet despite their obvious challenges, the members of Slave to Sirens persist in trying to create a revolution of their own: living their truth.