‘On the Bride’s Side’ Screening at Ayam Beirut Al Cinema’iya Arab Film Festival 2015

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 Palestinian poet and an Italian journalist meet five Palestinians and Syrians in Milan who entered Europe via the Italian island of Lampedusa after fleeing the war in Syria. They decide to help them complete their journey to Sweden – and hopefully avoid getting themselves arrested as human trafficking – by faking a wedding. With a Palestinian friend dressed up as the bride and a dozen or so Italian and Syrian friends as wedding guests, they cross halfway over Europe on a four-day journey of 3,000 kilometers.

About the Directors
Gabriele Del Grande is a writer and an independent journalist. In 2006, he founded the Observatory for the Victims of the Borders of Fortress Europe, and since 2011 he has been covering Arab Spring uprisings and the wars in Libya and in Syria.

Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry is a poet, literary critic and graphic designer. A Palestinian-Syrian, he was born in Damascus in 1979 and has lived in Milan since 2009. He is cur­rently working as editorial director and graphic designer for the Emiratian Publisher Noon.

Antonio Augugliaro is an editor and a director. He started his career working in the field of video art with Studio Azzurro. Today, he works for TV channels like Sky and Disco­very and on independent cinema productions in Milan.