‘Twenty Eight Nights and a Poem’ 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.

This unique Arab film festival brings together over 200 professionals and students from Lebanon and the region, in addition to international professionals and stars. In additions to films, the festival hosts many workshops, roundtables and networking sessions.

About the Movie
Partly a study of a photographer’s studio in the mid twentieth century and partly an exploration of the essence of archives today, this film tries to understand how this mode of producing images functioned in the lives of communities it served, and why it seized to exist and what it led to?

About the Director
Zaatari has produced more than forty videos, a dozen books, and countless installations of photographic material, all pursuing a range of interconnected themes, subjects and practices related to excavation, political resistance and the lives of former militants.