Screening of "Cities of Anxiety" directed by Mohamed Hashem
 
Monday 25 July 2016 at 8pm
Free Entrance
Seats are limited - No reservation needed
First come first serve
The screening will be followed with Q&A with the director.
(With English subtitles) - 58min
 
Cities are like human beings, with a body made of streets and buildings, and with its inhabitants at the core of its soul. Cities are influenced by its surrounding and it affect its people in return. This similarity creates an interactive relationship that manifests itself in various forms, among which: anxiety.
أن المدن مثل البشر، جسدها الشوارع /المباني وروحها ناسها، تتأثر بمحيطها وتؤثر بقاطينها وينتج عن هذا التشابه علاقة تفاعلية يمكن تلمسها بمظاهر مختلفة، قد يكون ابرزها مرض العصر: القلق.
 
Synopsis:
Cities are like human beings, with a body made of streets and buildings, and with its inhabitants at the core of its soul. Cities are influenced by its surrounding and it affect its people in return. This similarity creates an interactive relationship that manifests itself in various forms, among which: anxiety.
This organism, the city, is anxious as a result of the state of hopelessness that our world is experiencing.
As times change, Arab cities changed, they lost their souls. The coffee shops that we used to frequent to changed; the streets, the buildings, people and their conceptions, everything changed and lost its spontaneity and vivacity.
They’ve become pale and colorless like a destroyed dead body…
We venture through three different cases of anxiety from Lebanon, Baghdad, and Cairo to live their reality as anxious cities.
أن المدن مثل البشر، جسدها الشوارع/المباني وروحها ناسها، تتأثر بمحيطها وتؤثر بقاطينها وينتج عن هذا التشابه علاقة تفاعلية يمكن تلمسها بمظاهر مختلفة، قد يكون ابرزها مرض العصر: القلق.
 
هذا الكائن/المدينة مصاب بالقلق جراء إنعدام الأمل وانسداد الأفق وهي سمة عالمية اليوم.فالمدن العربية تغيرت معالمها وتغيرت روحها مع تطورات الزمن والتغيرات السياسية في المنطقة. المقهى الذي كنا نجلس به تغير، الشوارع، الابنية، الناس، المفاهيم، التقاليد.. سلب منها عفويتها وتألقها.. اصبحت باهتة كجثة مدمرة..سنكتشف حالات القلق هذه من خلال ثلاث شخصيات عربيةمن لبنان، بغداد والقاهرة لنعيش معهم واقعهم الموتور.
 
Crew:
Director/Writer: Mohamed Hashem
 
Director of Photography: Fadi Yeniturk
 
Producer: Abir Hashem
 
Production manager: Ali Hamoud
 
Picture Editor: Ayman Nahle
 
Sound Editor: Ramzi Madi
 
Poster and Graphic designer: Reem Nehme
 
----------------
Metro Al Madina
(Hamra, Saroulla Building(-2
Facebook/ Twitter/ Instagram: Metro Al Madina
e-mail: metromadina@gmail.com or info@metromadina.com
Website: www.metromadina.com
Ticketing Phone: +961-76309363 (Monday to Saturday - 12 to 9 pm | Sunday 2 - 9 pm)
 
ًWheelchair access available upon request