SHORT FILMS
Discover the 17 short films about the waste that are participating in the short film competition.
The films will be screened in Kobayat, on Saturday, September 11, 2021 at 7:30PM at the Silk Factory,
and on AFLAMUNA: from September 13 till October 3.
Make sure to vote for your favorite film!
2120
Fiction • 4.59 minutes • 2021
When all life on Earth ends due to the waste boom in the year 2120, journeys towards Mars begin.. A man remains on planet Earth, refusing to leave, until an order comes from the rulers of Mars to cleanse the Earth of waste and the remaining human beings.
Director: Abbas Abbas
Language: English
Subtitles: Arabic
Country: Lebanon
Ate Where I Shat
Hybrid • 4.38 minutes • 2021
When a feast finds itself deemed trash, it joins its peers to seek revenge upon humans.
Director: Line Itani, Issa Noureddine
Language: No dialogue
Country: Lebanon
Earth Calling
Documentary • minutes • 2021
Arabsalim, 1995. Zeinab Mokalled, and several women from the community take the initiative to start a campaign to spread environmental awareness.
Director: Basma Farhat, Hassan Haidar
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Lebanon
Hostile Environment
Documentary • 4.41 minutes • 2021
A group of Syrian teenagers share their vision of hunting in Lebanon and their hope for the future.
With Malak Al-Mahmoud, Montaser Al-Mahmoud, Lynn Ghannam, Haya Ahmad, Zein Ahmad, Mariam Al-Karim, Abdul Al-Aziz Al-Mahmoud, Lara Ghannam, Mariam Al-Mahmoud, and Wissam Jomaa
Director: Moura Al-Jubeili, Aude Sublet
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Lebanon
Filthy
Animation • 1.15 minutes • 2021
“Filthy” is an experimental animated short film about the consequences of humans dumping waste in the forests.
Director: Rana Rachid
Language: No dialogue
Country: Lebanon
Cook It In Its Fat
Documentary • 7.33 minutes • 2021
Hana is a laboratory technician, art teacher, cook, mother, grandmother, and farmer. She has an intriguing personality and an organic intuition to recycle and live “au naturel”, as she says. Her grandsons, Rayan and Nour, are two young boys growing up with a passion for nature and the environment; they started an initiative named “Dawerha” to collect plastic, cans, and oil from their neighborhood.
Director: Hanady El Cheikh
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Lebanon
I Am Wasted
Experimental • 4.35 minutes • 2021
A young Lebanese environmental activist becomes frustrated with the environmental problems surrounding him, only to realize that the problem is much deeper than what it appears to be.
Director: Hussein Ali Ghandour
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Lebanon
Glitch (Khalal)
Fiction • 7.09 minutes • 2019
Nabil's life changes when an engineering company invades his house. Claiming to build the "house of the future" to solve the pollution/trash crisis, it infuses weird technology into his old traditional home.
Director: Charbel Kosseifi
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Lebanon
mama is a tree.
Experimental • 4.34 minutes • 2021
Through this experiment, I explore the similarities between my mother and nature.
Director: Tamar El Dahr
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Lebanon
MoucheOir
(A Journey of a Fly)
Experimental • 4.13 minutes • 2021
"MoucheOir" is a short art video about a journey of a fly that enters into a garbage bag and magically transforms into a dancer. The setup of the interior of the garbage bag becomes a real scale artistic setting where everything is designed and made of garbage.
The dancing fly passes through the backstage corridor to get ready to step into the main stage, where the show happens, accompanied by musicians playing instruments made of garbage (garbage lids, barrels, glass bottles, nylon, cats, trucks, etc.).
Director: Rana Zeidan, Souheil Semaan
Language: No dialogue
Country: Lebanon
Musca
Experimental • 4.36 minutes • 2021
The camera lands on a landfill to watch and contemplate.
Director: Ghina Abboud
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Lebanon
Paradise on Earth
Documentary, Hybrid • 4.59 minutes • 2021
Paradise on Earth is a short film that recites a poem by Fadhil Al-Azzawi over a series of images around Lebanon. It is a visual journey in which the viewer is taken to locations around the country, ranging from dirty, polluted areas to beautiful, calm landscapes.
Director: Adam M. Jammal
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Lebanon
Recycled Memory
Fiction • 5 minutes • 2021
In the wake of environmental evolution in Lebanon, Leila senses the ruining of her recycled memories and mourns the exile in which she lived for many years.
Director: Rami Salloum
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Lebanon
Repurposed
Fiction • 5 minutes • 2021
Laura, a young Lebanese woman, and her mother struggle to keep up with the escalating Lebanese economic crisis. In desperation, Laura comes up with an unexpected plan marked with nostalgia to survive tough days.
Director: Pamela Nassour
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Lebanon
The Hurl
Fiction • 4.15 minutes • 2021
Trash around a small town in Lebanon mysteriously starts to slither away onto the streets, forming a monstrous, sky-scraping tower of garbage, Mother Nature’s vengeful plan to ruin whoever has ruined her Earth. Little do the frightened citizens know that they’ve brought the hurl upon themselves.
Director: Samir El Kawas
Language: Arabic, English
Subtitles: English
Country: Lebanon
There Are No Lions On Mars
Fiction • 5.07 minutes • 2021
Beirut, 2059. On a boring day with his babysitter, watching TV, Oliver discovers something that he shouldn’t have seen.
Director: Christophe Nassif
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English, French
Country: Lebanon, France
Use The Medium
Docu-Fiction • 5 minutes • 2021
A trusted reporter utilizes the primitive medical waste management known in Lebanon to spread a product.
Director: Shadi Rabahi
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Country: Lebanon