Cleaning Schaerbeek
Farah Kassem
When the terror alert level in Belgium was raised, the Interior Minister made a pithy statement that he was going to clean up the Molenbeek district.
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Cleaning Schaerbeek
Documentary Film
Belgium,
Lebanon
2017
19 minutes
Subtitles:
English
Credits
Producer
Farah Kassem
Director
Farah Kassem
Music
Yohan Dumas
Cinematographer
Farah Kassem
Editor
Farah Kassem
Script
Farah Kassem
Sound
Farah Kassem
When the terror alert level in Belgium was raised, the Interior Minister made a pithy statement that he was going to clean up the Molenbeek district – by now a synonym for Islamist breeding ground. Meanwhile a resident of the Schaerbeek district, also predominantly populated by migrants, discovered that mysterious things were going on in front of her window. She informed the authorities and filmed what’s happening … An equally intelligent and amusing essayist look at paranoia and the obsession with security.
Frederik Lang
Frederik Lang
SAMT (Silence)
Chadi Aoun
In a dictatorship of religious fanatics modern dance is the secret code of the silent resistance. At out-of-the-way places in town young people celebrate the hidden joy of life with their bodies, cope with the terror they experienced.
SAMT (Silence)
Animated Film
Lebanon
2016
15 minutes
Subtitles:
English
Credits
Producer
Chadi Aoun
Director
Chadi Aoun
Music
Fadi Tabbal
Cinematographer
Chadi Aoun
Editor
Chadi Aoun
Animation
Chadi Aoun
Script
Chadi Aoun
Sound
Fadi Tabbal
In a dictatorship of religious fanatics modern dance is the secret code of the silent resistance. At out-of-the-way places in town young people celebrate the hidden joy of life with their bodies, cope with the terror they experienced. Chadi Aoun’s drawn animation is an equally expressive and haunting depiction of an oppressive, restricted life and a colourful outbreak. Their indomitable will to live is choreographed as an expansive dance movement.
André Eckardt
Nominated for mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
André Eckardt
Nominated for mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Waves '98
Ely Dagher
A teenager in the city of Beirut in the late 1990s: a chimeric metropolis in a state of suspension, where the only way to escape loneliness leads inside the golden beast.
Waves '98
Animated Film
Lebanon
2015
15 minutes
Subtitles:
English
Credits
Producer
Ely Dagher
Director
Ely Dagher
Music
Matthew Wilcock
Cinematographer
Ely Dagher
Editor
Ely Dagher
Animation
Ely Dagher,Laure Escafadals, Chadi Aoun
Script
Ely Dagher
Sound
Zelig Sound
A teenager in the city of Beirut in the late 1990s: a chimeric metropolis in a state of suspension, where the only way to escape loneliness leads inside the golden beast. The powerful mix of live footage and animation creates a sense of geography and date for this reflection about the director’s relationship to his birthplace. A cartography of isolation, boredom, disillusion, and chaos.
Victor Orozco
Victor Orozco
