Lebanon, 2022, 60′, IESAV Senior Students Films
Friday 10 November 2023 at 20:00.
Théâtre Béryte – USJ (map)
Full Program (PDF)
Antoine Ticketing
Films
To You(th)
2022, 18′, directed by Mira Merheb, Arabic/English sub.
Alain and Mira, a couple that has been together for five years, decide to have a heart-to-heart about life. They plunge into a thought-provoking conversation in which they question their own relationship and its destiny, while simultaneously reflecting on their collapsed homeland, Lebanon. They seek freedom and happiness, but would they truly reach that by escaping their country? Among all this instability and destruction surrounding them, will love alone be enough to keep them afloat?
Festivals & Awards:
Official Selection Cabriolet Film Festival – 2022 (Lebanon)
YOUKI International Youth Media Festival – 2022 (Austria)
Equinoxio film festival Bogota Columbia – 2022 (Bogota, Columbia)
First-Time Filmmaker Sessions @ PinewoodStudios | Official Selection – 2021 (England, UK)
Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions @ PinewoodStudios | Official Selection – 2021 (England, UK)
Festival Universitario de Cine y Audiovisuales Equinoxio | Official Selection – 2022 (Bogota, Colombia)
Sharjah Film Platform | منصة الشارقة للأفلام |Official Selection – 2022 (Sharjah, UAE)
Student World Impact Film Festival|Nominee – 2022 (New York, USA)
Nordic Youth Film Festival – NUFF | Official Selection – 2022 (Tromsø, Norway)
CINENOVA Interuniversity Film Festival | Official Selection – 2022 (Lisbon, Portugal)
Alpavirama International Youth Film Festival | Official Selection – 2022 (Ahmedabad, India)
Student World Impact Film Festival – 2022 (New York, USA)
CINENOVA Interuniversity Film Festival – 2022 (Lisbon, Portugal)
Black Cat Award Film Festival – 2022 (Online) “
Black Cat Award Film Festival – 2022 (Online Best Debut Director Award – Department of Short Documentaries – Category The Students)
Time Loop
2022, 20′, directed by Rita Abi Raad, Arabic/English sub.
Talk to me – أبواب
2022, 21′, directed by Ribal Chedid, Arabic/Eng. sub.
Farid, who works abroad, locks himself on the last day of his stay in Beirut in his son Rawad’s room, to find what he is hiding there. Separated by a locked door, the dysfunctional dynamic between them intensifies, and the past resurfaces.
Festivals & Awards:
WINNER – BEST FICTION FILM – 7th International FilmSchool Festival Tétouan | Tétouan, Morocco, November 2022;
WINNER – BEST PERFORMANCE & OUTSTANDING AWARD – 21st International Student Film & Video Festival of Beijing Film Academy (ISFVF) | Beijing, China, November 2022;
SPECIAL MENTION | 9th International Alexandria Short Film Festival | Alexandria, Egypt, February 2023;
26th Brussels Short Film Festival (Oscars®️ Qualifying Film Festival) | Brussels, Belgium, April/May 2023;
33rd Carthage Film Festival (Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage) | Carthage, Tunisia, October 2022;
44th Manaki Brothers International Cinematographers Film Festival | Bitola, North Macedonia, September 2023;
41st Film School Fest Munich | Munich, Germany, November 2022;
7th Lebanese Film Festival in Canada | Montréal/Vancouver, Canada, October 2022;
8th Contact International Student Film Festival | Izmir, Turkey, October 2022;
28th Rabat International Author Film Festival | Rabat, Morocco, November 2022;
16th Beirut Shorts International Film Festival | Beirut, Lebanon, December 2022;
Festival International du Cinéma des Mines de Jérissa | Al-Jarissah, Tunisia, December 2022;
2nd Hollywood Arab Film Festival | Hollywood, United States, April 2023;
4th Seattle Arab Film Festival | Seattle, United States, May 2023;
8th Lebanese Independant Film Festival | Beirut, Lebanon, September 2023;
28th European Film Festival in Lebanon | Beirut, Lebanon, September 2023;
3rd Lebanese Film Festival in France | Paris, France, November 2023;
In partnership with 👇
Beirut Art Film Festival 