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On Monday, January 22, at 5:00 PM, BAFF is organizing the screening of After the End of the World, directed by Nadim Mishlawi, at Bathish Auditorium, West Hall. The documentary had its Arab premiere at the Red Sea International Film Festival in 2022.
Following the screening of After the End of the World, organized by BAFF at AUB in partnership with Abbout Productions & AUB Center for Arts and Humanities, a Q&A session will take place. The session will feature Nadim Mishlawi, the film’s director, and Dr. George Arbid, director of the Arab Center for Architecture.
After the End of the World is a 72-minute creative documentary depicting a memoir of the filmmaker’s experiences in Beirut following the explosion in the city in August 2020. The film is directed and written by Nadim Mishlawi, produced by Georges Schoucair, and starring Bernard Khoury, Ziad Antar and George Arbid.
Synopsis
Suspended between a brutal past and an uncertain future, the battered city of Beirut exists in a fragile but perpetual present tense. In the aftermath of his father’s death, Nadim Mishlawi creates a memoir that mixes his own story with a city also haunted by loss. Looking past Beirut’s history of war and political upheaval, After the End of the World views the city in a subtler and more stimulating way. The Beirut seen on-screen is an uncanny urban experiment, constantly undergoing cycles of destruction and reconstruction that repeatedly leave it bruised and disfigured as ruins of the recent past are replaced by the next influx of modernity. By analyzing the city from so many perspectives, cultural, architectural, historical, social and especially human, Nadim Mishlawi explores the knowledge and history that these old spaces can hold and, most importantly, what happens when they are erased.
Free admission upon mandatory email booking:
https://beirutartfilmfestival.org/edition-9-winter-spring-2024/Â
