Q Movie
[Screens June 9 at 5:15 p.m., June 10 at 6 p.m., June 14 at 5:45 p.m., and June 18 at 11:45 a.m. during the Tribeca Film Festival that runs June 7-18; for more information, log on to www.tribecafilm.com.] Jude Chehab's informative, eye-opening, fascinating, unsettling, insightful, visually creative, multigenerational, 93-minute documentary that examines the ways in which the mysterious, secretive matriarchal religious Qubaysiat cult order run by Anisa has affected her relationship with her enigmatic, Muslim mother Hiba Khodr, who has been married to her husband Ziad Chehab for thirty years, and grandmother Doria Mouneimne in Lebanon as they search for meaning in their lives by blindly following the tenets of the religious community that seems to control every aspect of their lives and filling their days with devotional prayers and writing poetry, and as a result, the devotion profoundly influences and affects the relationships with all of the people in their lives.
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