Shorts 3 - Breaking Character

سُتْرة (Threaded)
Naaman Azhari, UK, Lebanon, 2024, 5 min. Arabic with English subtitles

Yerçekimi (Gravity)
Dalya Keleş, Turkey, 2026, 16 min. Turkish with English subtitles

عيب (Shame)
Hadi Moussally, France, Lebanon, 2025, 4 min. Arabic with English subtitles

شوارع القاهرة (Cairo Streets)
Abdellah Taïa,France, Egypt, 2025, 19 min. Arabic, French with English subtitles

نحن، السلاح (We, The Weapon)
Mohamad Moe Sabbah, Lebanon, Germany, 2025, 22 min. No dialog

Followed by a talk with Mohamad Moe Sabbah and the cast of We, The Weapon.

What happens when you stop playing the part you’ve been given? A girl refuses to behave like a girl, fashion is transformed into an arena of subversion, and homoerotic tensions surface in the theatre of war. In Cairo, an unrequited love haunts the city streets, seeking sanctuary in the ghost of cinema and the vision of Youssef Chahine. In one way or another, these are characters who decided to mess with the script.

Mohamad Moe Sabbah is a Cologne-based Lebanese artist and filmmaker working in film, performance, and sound from a queer perspective.