'The Kite'

By Mark Griffin, Globe Correspondent  |  October 9, 2008

Betrothed to a relative she's never met, Lamia (Flavia Bechara, below) leaves her home in Lebanon and crosses the border into Israel. Political and personal conflicts ignite when Lamia falls for an Israeli checkpoint guard. The most memorable sequences from this 2003 feature involve families separated by the border sharing gossip by shouting into megaphones. 1 p.m. $5. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline. 617-734-2500. www.coolidge.org