Msaytbeh, the elevated place.
المصيطبة، المكان المرتفع
After a twenty year absence, Rawane Nassif returns home in Msaytbeh, Beirut. Msaytbeh, (from the word Mastaba, the elevated place) was home to a loving and diverse neighbourhood of secular leftists. Upon her return, Rawane realises that the life and community she left behind has drastically changed.
In this personal and layered documentary, Rawane invites us into her parents’ home, destroyed by years of war. Shot on the eighteenth floor balcony, Rawane juxtaposes her childhood memories with what is left today. As ruined buildings are projected onto a destroyed bathroom wall, history seems only able to repeat itself.
– Lyse Ishimwe Nsengiyumva and Koen de Rooij
Also in this combined programme
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Materia vibrante
The intersection of architecture and landscape; the intersection of structures and sculptures; the intersections themselves.
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Descent
A possibility for reclamation as London’s rapidly changing skyline is abstracted and freefalling on 16mm.
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Ojitos mentirosos
Elena Duque eulogises the magic of film with architecture and the unique texture of 8mm.
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Film details
- Countries of production
- Canada, Lebanon
- Year
- 2024
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 20'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
