'' The Kite '' ( , – طيّارة من ورق ) is a 2003 Lebanese film by the director Randa Chahal Sabag . It tells the story of a fifteen-year-old Lebanese girl , from a Druze community , who is forced to marry her cousin across the Israeli border , but finds herself in love with an Israeli soldier . '' Le Cerf-volant '' was Sabag 's most commercially and critically successful movie , and her last ; she died in 2008 . The film was Lebanon 's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards . Although it never received a theatrical release in the United States , the film was released to DVD in 2009 by First Run Features . The Kite is set in a village called Deir Mimas over the border of the pre-occupied territories in southern Lebanon ( occupied by Israel ) . The 16-year-old Lebanese girl Lamia ( Flavia Bechara ) lives with her family in the village . Her family had promised to marry her off to her cousin Samy ( Edmond Haddad ) , who lives on the Israeli side . Lamia 's mother , Amira ( Randa Asmar ) was dejected and unwilling to send her daughter away because that meant that Lamia could never come back because of the tense political situation at the border
76th Academy Awards
76th Academy Awards
The Kite (film)