Screenings
‘The Narrow Frame of Midnight’ Screening at Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya Arab Film Festival 2015
Sunday, Mar 15, 2015
9:30pm -> 11:00pm
Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya Arab Film Festival 2015
Metropolis Empire Sofil
9:30pm -> 11:00pm
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
A young orphan, Aïcha, is taken for sale from her home in the Atlas Mountains and finds herself at the mercy of a petty criminal. They soon cross paths with Zacaria, a Moroccan and Iraqi writer, who has left everything to search for his missing brother. The group embarks on a journey that will lead them across Morocco, to Istanbul, and across the plains of Kurdistan and beyond.
About the Director
Writer, director and photographer, Tala Hadid is the author of several short films, including Tes Cheveux Noirs Ihsan, which received an Academy Award and won the Panorama Best Short Film Award at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2012, she was awarded the Peter S. Reed Foundation Arts grant in support of her work, most specifically House in the Fields, a documentary project about rural life in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains.