Screenings
‘Iraqi Odyssey’ Screening at Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya Arab Film Festival 2015
Monday, Mar 16, 2015
7:30pm -> 10:30pm
Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya Arab Film Festival 2015
Cinemacity Beirut Souks
7:30pm -> 10:30pm
Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya Arab Film Festival 2015
Cinemacity Beirut Souks
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
Like in his famous film Forget Baghdad, Samir spent more than five years collecting his family’s memories dispersed around the globe which forms the basis of his new movie Iraqi Odyssey. The director traveled hundreds of hours to meet his uncles and cousins in Moscow, New York, New Zealand, Baghdad and Paris and to sail in an odyssey for which he had chosen 3D technology.
About the Director
Born in 1955 in Iraq, Samir migrated with his family to Switzerland in the 1960s. He first works as a freelance author and director in 1982. Today, Samir is well known for his unique fiction, documentary and experimental films, whose innovative character has drawn attention at various festivals and won numerous awards. Beside his own projects as an independent producer and director, he regularly directs theatre plays and works in visual arts.