Ziad Doueiri's film The Insult has been nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film. The film explores the cultural, religious and political divides that have existed in Lebanon since 1948. The story is rooted in a dispute between two men from different ethnic and religious backgrounds in Beirut, Lebanon. Through the film, Doueiri shows a country he believes is broken because it has not dealt with its painful history. Beirut, Lebanon had a rough past, Doueiri said. We had a lot of conflict with the Syrians, the Palestinians, the Lebanese, the Left, the Right, the Conservatives, the Liberals. The pro-West, the pro-East. Lebanon is such a tiny place, but it really absorbs all those kinds of things.” He added, "So, whenever you have that many conflicts and such a tiny place surrounded by so many countries we are on a hotbed of problems.” The Lebanese filmmaker said the effects of his country’s civil war can still be felt.