Promoter
EGEAC, Empresa de Gestão de Equipamentos e Animação Cultural
Synopsis
Cinema Kawakeb
Mahmoud Massad • 2025 • Jordan, Qatar, The Netherlands • 78’ • DCP
World Premiere
Eligible for Rights and Freedoms Award
Synopsis
Cinema Kawakeb follows a filmmaker’s struggle to document the fading existence of a crumbling cinema in Amman, Jordan. Through the stories of its last two employees and its only loyal patron, a homeless scrap collector who lives for classic Indian films, the film becomes a meditation on loss, memory and conflict. As the theatre nears demolition, the film delves into the roots of its demise, tracing tensions from a family feud to regional and global power struggles.
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