Under the golden sun of Beirut, men stand on the city’s flat rooftops and shoot oranges at the sky. They do this to scare their pigeons, make them fly further, and make them stronger. They play the Kash Hamam game, where you have to lure the other players’ pigeons into your own pigeon loft. If you succeed, there’s “Kash”. And then you cut off the pigeon’s feathers. Or feed it to the cats.
Born in 1994, Lea Najjar was raised between Vienna and Beirut. She studied at the American University of Beirut before obtaining a degree in Documentary Directing from the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Her feature-length documentary Kash Kash celebrated its world premiere at the CPH: DOX in Copenhagen where it won the NEXT: Wave Competition for best debut and emerging filmmaker from the international scene.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with Lea Najjar.
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Rue Ravenstein 23 1000 BRUSSELSLanguage
- Subtitles: English
- Original version: Arabic
See also
Partners
- Tashattot
- Goethe-Institut Brüssel