A Certain Nasser
+Double feature! (Part 1)
+Lebanese
Saturday, 9/29
1:50 p.m.
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Stick around for a screening of Georges Nasser’s 1957 classic, Ila Ayn?, recently restored by Abbout Productions.
A CERTAIN NASSER
Badih Massaad and Antoine Waked
Documentary
66 minutes / 2017
Lebanon
Arabic, French with English subtitles
Minnesota premiere
This is a film about Georges Nasser, the first Lebanese filmmaker to screen his work at the renowned international film festival in Cannes, and in this documentary, he fondly relays his journey with cinema. Here, his story is told with candor, humor, and grace, as the Lebanese auteur recounts a fascinating tale of unprecedented success, struggle, and disappointment. A Certain Nasser presents the compelling journey of a man who crafted films in the absence of a film industry, and whose childlike enthusiasm for his greatest love, cinema, gleams in his eyes even at ninety years of age. Through his lens, we hear the history of a nation and an art form.
Festivals and Awards:
Special Jury Prize, Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt, 2018
Lebanese Film Festival, Australia, 2018
Cinema Verite, Iran, 2018
Badih Massaad studied filmmaking at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts. His graduation film Badkon shi . . . t? (2005) won le Prix Spécial du Jury at the European Film Festival in Beirut. Since 2004, Massaad has worked on many commercials, music videos, and short films, and he recently joined MC Distribution and Abbout Productions, where he works in film distribution in the Middle East.
Antoine Waked studied filmmaking at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts. He has worked on several television shows and has directed short films including the award-winning animated film The Big Fall (2005), which screened at festivals in Paris, Lyon, Sydney, Rome, Morocco and Egypt. He teaches filmmaking in Lebanon and works as a screenwriter and development executive with Abbout Productions and Shortcut Films.
