Warsha

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Official section: Short Films
The gaze of Arab and Persian cinema
Session: A Lebanese Evening with Hadi Moussally

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At the French Institute

SUN 07/06 ● 6 pm
In the presence of Hadi Moussally.

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Title: Warsha
Director: Dania Bdeir
Cast: Khansa, Kamal Saleh, Hassan Aqqoul
Production: Inter Spinas Films, GoGoGo Films
Distribution: Amar Sokhen
Genre: Drama
Duration: 15’
Country: Lebanon
Year: 2021
Original language in Arabic. Subtitles in Spanish

Festivals: Aspen (shorts), Austin (SXSW), Bankstown (Australia, Lebanese cinema), Barcelona (film and dance), Barcelona (Jewish cinema), Berlin, Berlin (shorts), Bilbao (LGBTIQ+), Brest (European cinema), Bristol (shorts), Brussels (shorts), Brussels (LGBTIQ+), Charlotte (USA), Clermont-Ferrand (shorts), Ingolstadt (shorts), Ischia, London (LGBTIQ+), Lucania, Prizren, Madrid (Indian cinema), Malmö (Arab cinema), Rock Hill (USA, independent cinema), Rotterdam, Saguenay (shorts), San Francisco (LGBTIQ+), San Sebastián, Santiago de Chile (LGBTIQ+), Sundance, Tampere, Tirana, Valladolid

Mohammad is a Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to take on one of the tallest and notoriously most dangerous cranes in Lebanon. Away from everyone’s eyes, he is able to live out his secret passion and find freedom.

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