Nation Estate | Larissa Sansour
2009 | 9min

The film offers a clinically dystopian, yet humorous approach to the deadlock in the Middle East. With a mixture of computer-generated imagery, live actors and arabesque electronica, the film explores a vertical solution to Palestinian statehood. Palestinians have their state in the form of a single skyscraper: the Nation Estate. One colossal high-rise houses the entire Palestinian population – now finally living the high life.

Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow | Fadi [the fdz] Baki
2017 | 29min
Arabic with English subtitles

A young filmmaker investigates the legend of Manivelle, an automaton gifted to Lebanon in 1945 that still haunts an abandoned mansion in Beirut. After being coaxed back out into the limelight, the people who knew him come forward to speak their mind, and the myth that Manivelle has constructed around himself begins to unravel.

This screening is part of Dar El-Nimer's Awafi, the series of mobile public programs.

Location: Social Support Society – Active Ageing House