Cinema Libanon - Block 3
Author: redactie redactie
"<b>My friend Imad and the taxi</b>", 19 min, Olga Nakkas/Hassan Zbib, Lebanon (1985 and 2005)
<br />In 1985, Hassan Zbib and Olga Nakkas separately started to develop film scenarios based on simple narratives. Their work took Beirut as a stage where lonely characters drifted: a taxi driver in his car, a man walking around and talking to a Rambo poster. These films were never presented as finalized works until a Beirut-based festival, Né à Beyrouth, spotted them and asked the filmmakers to present their films with live electronic music.
<br /><br />"<b>A Perfect Day</b>", 88min, Khalil Joreige en Joanna Hadjithomas, 2005
<br />Stuck in a traffic jam, Malek catches a glance of Zeina, the woman he loves. His mother Claudia has still not accepted his father’s disappearance after 15 years. She stays at home should her husband return, Malek drives around the city alone in his car. Each of them living with a void of lost love.
Start | 22.00 h<br />Admission | 10,- euros (Passepartout for 3 blocks: 25,- euros)<br />Ticketsales will be donated to Sanayah Relief fund <br />Language | English