BIG FEELINGS. SMALL SCREENS.

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This July we’re taking a dive into transportative images, powerful stories, and emotional thrills with a series of digital premieres screening exclusively on the Onassis Foundation YouTube channel. A screen, however small, is all you need to enjoy new experiences and moments as seen through the eyes of both accomplished and up-and-coming filmmakers. Big Feelings Small Screens onto the world of great cinema, with award-winning films, collaborations with major festivals in Greece and around the world, and rare films being shown for the first time online. Films from Lebanon are being premiered in collaboration with the Cannes Film Festival, along with short films created by Onassis Foundation Scholars. Collaborations with the Athens International Film Festival Opening Nights and the Drama International Short Film Festival will be bringing us award-winning Greek short films from 2019. And this cinematic experience doesn’t end there: talks on the seventh art by acclaimed directors such as Werner Herzog, as well as a series of original works each created by up-and-coming artists – such as Vasilis Kekatos, Yorgos Zois and Evi Kalogiropoulou – in 120 hours as part of the ENTER project make clear that cinema at the Onassis Foundation never stops surprising us, inspiring us, and carrying us away.

In the first week of July, the Onassis Foundation YouTube channel will host films that take us to Lebanon and shed light on a national film output that continues to provoke intense emotional reactions. Lebanon Factory – an international collaboration with the Cannes Film Festival Director’s Fortnight and the Fondation Liban Cinema – consists of four short films co-directed by four pairs of young filmmakers. Nadim Tabet’s One of These Days sees us spend one full day with its cast of characters as they go about their lives in Beirut. Love, dreams, abandon, boredom, and music are all set against a backdrop of protests on Beirut’s streets. Discover these films from July 2 to 8. Major Greek short films will screen from July 9 – this program will be announced soon.

In brief

From 2-8 July

LEBANON FACTORY

From July 2, the Onassis YouTube Channel will be hosting "Lebanon Factory", an international collaboration of Director’s Fortnight and Fondation Liban Cinema.

After Taipei Factory in 2013, Nordic Factory in 2014, Chile Factory in 2015 and South Africa Factory in 2016, the Directors’ Fortnight and Fondation Liban Cinema join to continue the adventure with Lebanon Factory in 2017. This Factory aims at the emergence of new talents on the international scene, allowing young filmmakers Lebanese and international, to meet and create together. The four short films of 15 minutes each, co-directed by four tandems of young directors take us all the way to Lebanon. The films were presented at the opening of the Directors’ Fortnight and it is their first digital screening.

White Noise (2017 - Lebanon/France - 17')

A film by Ahmad Ghossein (Lebanon) and Lucie La Chimia (France)

Said is doing his first night of duty as a security guard under the bridge in the middle of Beirut. With only a walkie-talkie and a torch, he is trying to take his job seriously. At sunrise, the city will have crushed him...

Ahmad Ghossein born in Beirut in 1981, is a Filmmaker and video artist.

Lucie La Chimia was born in 1991 in eastern France.

Hotel Al Naim (2017 – Lebanon/France – 14’)

A film by Shirin ABU SHAQRA (Lebanon) and Manuel MARIA PERRONE (Switzerland / Italy)

The octopus believes that the hand in front of it is a prey, but it doesn’t know that behind every hand, there is an arm…

Shirin Abu Shaqra received her MFA with honors in 2010 from Le Fresnoy, National Studio for Contemporary Arts in France. Before entering the artistic field, she studied History and Political Science at Saint-Joseph University Beirut.

Manuel Maria Perrone was born in 1981 in Bellinzona, Switzerland. Italian and Swiss, Manuel is a film and stage director, poet and actor.

Salamat from Germany (2017 – Lebanon/France – 17’)

A film by Rami Kodeih (Lebanon) and Una Gunjak (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Desperate to escape Lebanon and settle in Europe, Lillo buys himself a Syrian passport and is ready to appropriate the Syrian identity to obtain asylum. However, what he might not be ready for yet, is everything that comes along with being a Syrian refugee today.

Una Gunjak was born and raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Rami Kodeih was born in Beirut. His short films have won awards and screened at festivals around the world.

El Gran Libano (2017 – Lebanon/France – 16’)

A film by Mounia Akl (Lebanon) and Neto Villalobos (Costa Rica)

When hungover Bassem wakes up by the lake shore among his dead fishes, his sister Youmna, who he hasn’t seen for 12 years, is there, with a coffin.

Mounia Akl is a director and writer from Lebanon living between Beirut and New York.

Neto Villalobos was born in San José, Costa Rica. He graduated with a degree in Sociology and later majored in Film Direction in Barcelona.

ONE OF THESE DAYS

Nadim Tabet

A 24-hour youth chronicle in Beirut. They’re in their early twenties, they are smart, beautiful and hungry for life. Beirut is experiencing yet another terrorist attack with street demonstrations and police checkpoints. For this generation who has known war since birth, it’s sadly just one of these days. They still have the music, their youth and their dreams. They play the game of seduction, fall in and out of love and kill the boredom.

Born in Beirut, Nadim Tabet shows as of his young age an interest to cinema, first by watching numerous movies, then by shooting short fictions in video: Caravane (1997) and Kodak Color (1998). In 1999, he goes to France to pursue his studies in human sciences and cinema at the Sorbonne University. In parallel, he directs shorts filmed in Super 8mm and in DV: Histoires extraordinaires du cinématographe (1999), Martine et Alia (2001), Passé présent futur (2002),

L’Arche de Noé (2003), Violante (2005), Le Liban en automne (2006), Jeunes et innocents (2007), Spring 75 (2008) and Souvenirs d’un été (2011). In 2001, Nadim Tabet co-founds the Lebanese Film Festival. Since 2011, he is member of the selection committee of the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. One of These Days is his first feature narrative.

Credits

Written and directed by: Nadim Tabet

Produced by: Georges Schoucair

Co-produced by: Wadih Safieddine

Associate producer: Myriam Sassine

Director of photography: Pascal Auffray, AFC

Editor: Pascale Hannoyer

Julia Gregory

Original music: Charbel Haber / The Bunny Tylers

Cast: Manal Issa, Yumna Marwan, Reine Salameh, Panos Aprahamian, Nicolas Cardahi, Julien Farhat, Walid Feghaly

Art director: Nadine Ghanem

Sound editor and designer: Rana Eid

Line producer: Eli Souaiby, Nermine Haddad

Production supervisor: Christian Eid

Produced by: Abbout Productions

In co-production with: Déjà Vu

In association with: Né à Beyrouth

In co-production and with the support of Enjaaz, a Dubai Film Market Initiative

World sales by: Celluloid Dreams the directors label

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