Sirens

The Middle East’s only female metal band screams and rips the strings for the revolution in Lebanon and for the love of each other.

SIRENS intimately chronicles the lives and music of Slave to Sirens, a band made up of five young metal heads whose burgeoning fame is set against the backdrop of the Lebanese revolution. Its members wrestle with friendship, sexuality, and challenges as their music serves as a refuge to Beirut’s youth culture.

Sirens is a charming and moving documentary giving the audience a potent reminder that punk is not dead, you just need to know where to look.

Director

Rita Baghdadi is a Moroccan-American documentary filmmaker and producer. Her work is often character-driven, and has won several awards. Outside of her work as a director, Rita is a frequent speaker and active mentor dedicated to empowering women of colour to tell their own stories through documentary filmmaking.