Cedars in the Pines (Akram Khater and Danica Cullinan, 2011) is a documentary about the 120-year history of Lebanese immigrants in North Carolina. Interviews with first, second, and third generation Lebanese Americans convey individual and family experiences of departure, struggle, opportunity, and community and, at the same time, raise broadly relevant questions about the immigrant experience in terms of maintaining culture and the relationship between identity and place.

Filmmaker Akram Khater will be present for Q & A following the screening.

Note: Admission to this screening is free. Part of the Ackland Film Forum.

Check out the Lebanese-American Project, which includes two Main Street, Carolina projects created by the DIL’s Fall 2011 graduate seminar.