Event

The Last Passenger/Against the Current/All for the Nation

le dernier passager (The Last Passenger)
Mounes Khammar
Short Film | Algeria | 2010 | 7 min.

A young man jumps from a cliff. Before leaving forever, his soul pays a visit to his two impossible loves: a woman and the stage of a concert hall.

Aaks el Seir (Against the Current)
Michèle Tyan
Short Documentary | Lebanon | 2011 | 43 min.

A documentary highlighting the power of faith against radicalism and fanaticism; the film shines the light on personalities highly respected and valued within their religious communities. Among these personalities: Prince Abdul Kader Al Jazairi, Bishop Salim Ghazal, Imam Moussa Al Sader and Reverend Makram Kozah. Through the efficient and positive role played by each of them to ensure communication and solidarity with other groups during times of crisis and confessional conflicts, we feel the urge to react in our more divided and intolerant societies.

koulouna lil watan (All for the Nation)
Carol Mansour
Documentary | Lebanon | 2011 | 52 min.

According to the Lebanese nationality law, Lebanese women that choose to marry a foreign man are denied the right to extend their citizenship to their husbands and children. Without citizenship, those families are denied most social, civil and economic rights. This is the first documentary in Lebanon that deals with such a fragile and controversial topic. The film is told through the intimate stories of five Lebanese families from different social, religious and economic backgrounds but whose lives and experiences are bound together by a discriminatory nationality law. It chronicles the lives of these families, their joys, pains, expectations and deceptions.