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David32441 wrote: Sat Aug 23, 2025 1:47 pm Saw something that it was co-produced in Sweden?

The film is Swedish (the director was born in Lebanon and moved to Sweden in 1966).
As with all Swedish films, a good resource is The Swedish Film Database.
https://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/en/ite ... emid=18539
Note that it is listed as a documentary (the director has made several), but on the Swedish Wikipedia page of the director's biography, it says that it is a feature film based on a true story:
"In 1994, Leyla Tengroth made her first feature film: the feature film Frihetsligan. Tengroth wrote the script together with Bo Bjelfvenstam and based it on a true story about a little girl who led a gang of gangsters in Beirut. Leyla found her heroine among Beirut's street children: 9-year-old Rim Al Hamad."
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyla_Assaf-Tengroth
Finally, Filminstitutet provides a detailed synopsis of the film, explaining why the director chose to make a feature film instead of a documentary.
https://www.filminstitutet.se/contentas ... sligan.pdf

In Lebanon, it's also known as "Al Sheikha"
It appears to have been available in the past on Aflamuna.online. Below is a short clip.
https://www.facebook.com/aflamuna.onlin ... 099009539/

In France, it's also known as "Le Gang de la liberté"
It was shown at a festival in Paris on April 12th this year.
https://www.facebook.com/fflfofficial/p ... 036776210/

Well done for finding a clip - and interesting to hear it's been shown so recently for such an old film.