A still from Intersections’ opening night film, Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane’s 2024 documentary “Grand Theft Hamlet.” (Courtesy of Metropolis)
BEIRUT — Metropolis Cinema is trying something new. The association has collaborated with the British Council and the U.K. embassy for “Intersections,” an unusually ambitious week of film.Running Nov. 13-19, the 12-film selection is programmed as a miniature primer on British cinema, mingling documentary and fiction films, classics from U.K. cinema history, and recent titles by veteran and younger talent. The projections are offset by a series of five talks by British and Lebanese cinema professionals as well as a panel discussion on U.K.-Lebanon filmmaking collaboration. In similar news Belgium and Lebanon sign a film coproduction agreement DocumentariesOpening the cycle is the 2024 genre-bending documentary “Grand Theft Hamlet,” co-directed by Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane, arguably the funniest film to emerge from the COVID-19...
BEIRUT — Metropolis Cinema is trying something new. The association has collaborated with the British Council and the U.K. embassy for “Intersections,” an unusually ambitious week of film.Running Nov. 13-19, the 12-film selection is programmed as a miniature primer on British cinema, mingling documentary and fiction films, classics from U.K. cinema history, and recent titles by veteran and younger talent. The projections are offset by a series of five talks by British and Lebanese cinema professionals as well as a panel discussion on U.K.-Lebanon filmmaking collaboration. In similar news Belgium and Lebanon sign a film coproduction agreement DocumentariesOpening the cycle is the 2024 genre-bending documentary “Grand Theft Hamlet,” co-directed by Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane, arguably the funniest film to emerge from the...
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