Screenings
‘Immortal Sergeant’ Screening at Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya Arab Film Festival 2015
From Mar 18 to Mar 25, 2015
4:00pm -> 6:00pm
From Mar 18 to Mar 25, 2015
6:00pm -> 8:00pm
From Mar 18 to Mar 25, 2015
7:00pm -> 9:00pm
From Mar 18 to Mar 25, 2015
9:30pm -> 11:30pm
Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya Arab Film Festival 2015
Metropolis Empire Sofil
4:00pm -> 6:00pm
From Mar 18 to Mar 25, 2015
6:00pm -> 8:00pm
From Mar 18 to Mar 25, 2015
7:00pm -> 9:00pm
From Mar 18 to Mar 25, 2015
9:30pm -> 11:30pm
Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya Arab Film Festival 2015
Metropolis Empire Sofil
Since 2001, Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya has promoted Independent Lebanese and Arab films, and encouraged young talents to lend their imagination to the big screen.
About the Movie
At the beginning of the Syrian revolution, even though I had completed my military service, I waited an entire year to be discharged, without hope. Having the rank of a sergeant, I was appointed to the military cinema of Bassel al-Assad, which had not shown a film for fifteen years. Every day, back home, I took off my military uniform and returned to normal life. I started shooting with my small camera and listened to the stories of the artists and the technicians: destruction, displacement and loss … Then I’d go home to watch the news, about destruction, violence and shelling. When the sun rose, I announced my withdrawal from the army and my refusal to take up arms.
About the Director
Born in Homs in 1981, Ziad Kalthoum is a graduate from the Cinema Institute in Russia. He has worked as an assistant director on a number of fiction, documentary and short movies, including with Mohamad Malas in Sleeping Cinema, with Hatem Ali in The Long night. He has a ten years of experience in TV and drama series. He is currently working on a new documentary in Beirut.