Event

Beep/Him Himself/Shout

Beep
Haytham Saqr
Short Film | United Arab Emirates | 2011 | 5 min.

Mr. K modern life's common man transits between home, work, and the mall, a life wasted on machines designed to provide easy living. A daily routine punctuated by an endless number of digits and beeps is this the total sum of living?

Him Himself
Pierre Dawalibi
Short Film | Lebanon | 2011 | 10 min.

A conflict as old as Adam; it is the cause of every war and every agony; it is the dualism between you and your own self, between your desires and your fears, what you want and what you must do. The film is a playful reflection upon the dilemma of what one is really doing to him/herself.

Shout
Sabine Lubbe Bakker & Ester Gould
Documentary | Netherlands | 2009 | 84 min.

Young "Golanis" born on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights are given an opportunity to study in their parents' homeland: Syria. Full of self-confidence, best friends Ezat and Bayan leave their village to discover their Arab roots. But Damascus proves to be a colorless metropolis where they often feel far from home. As they return to Golan Heights for the summer, difficult choices about family versus opportunity for their future soon confront them. One of the world's forgotten conflict zones, this documentary depicts the struggle between the search for individual identity and a sense of belonging.