Diaries of a Flying Dog
Title in English: Diaries of a Flying Dog
Director: Bassem Fayad
Country: Lebanon, UAE
Year: 2014
Duration: 75 Minutes
Languages: Arabic with English Subtitles
Awards: Nominated, Muhr Award, Best Non-Fiction Documentary, Dubai International Film Festival, 2014; Nominated, Viktor Award, DOK.horizons, Munich International Film Festival, 2015
A man and his tiny dog have something in common: obsessive compulsive anxiety disorder. Throughout their quest to heal, we dissect into pieces the surroundings – in its upbringing, fears and constant inner conflict. A memory is recalled; a memory filled with fear, violence, war, love and a past almost depicting itself again in the present and in the future. The setting is a family’s house. A father, a mother, sons, daughters and grandchildren living in Lebanon. The time is when beauty faded and ugliness and expiation prevailed.
The man is the director, the dog is the mirror and the film is the instrument.
Alia
Title in English: Alia
Director: Raghed Charabaty
Country: Canada, Lebanon
Year: 2015
Duration: 5 Minutes, 25 Seconds
Languages: Arabic with English Subtitles
Haunted by the memory of civil war, an old Lebanese man revisits the last few moments of a fateful bus ride that leads up to the murder of his beloved.