Metropolis

Beirut Animated is an animation film festival organized once every two years by The Metropolis Association. This unique festival aims at promoting animation in Lebanon by showcasing International, Arab and Lebanese animation productions. In addition to that, the festival seeks to become a platform where professionals from Lebanon, the Arab region and the World can meet, exchange and discuss issues related to animation, its production and development.

The 3^rd edition of this non-competitive festival will take place from the 14^th to the 18^th of June, 2013 at the Metropolis Empire Sofil in Ashrafieh and will be touring in 4 key cities of the Arab world: Tunis, Tangier, Cairo and Dubai.

This edition will contain the following sections and activities:

Friday, June 14:

8:30pm: Opening Night with the screening of the feature film The Rabbi’s Cat by Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux (France)

Saturday, June 15:

4 – 7pm: Panel discussion about independent animation in Lebanon (Moderators: Lina Younes, Saud Boksmati)

7:30 – 9:30pm: Lebanese and Arab short animation films

Burj El Murr (Lina Ghaibeh, Lebanon, World premiere, 12’)

Canvas on Mixed Media (Jalal Maghout, Syria, 5’)

This is not a video game (Rania Werda & Hejer Chelbi, Tunisia, 2’54”)

Electro Statics (Sawsan Nourallah, Syria, 3’40”)

The Water Wheel (Mohanad Hassan, Egypt, 1’33”)

Fouad (Joan Baz and David Habchy, Lebanon, 1’52”)

Hoffili (Lotfi Mahfoudh, Tunisia, 13’)

King Lost His Tooth (Gheith Al Amine, Lebanon, 5’30”)

L’Mrayet (Nadia Rais, Tunisia, 12’)

The good the bad and the sadistic (Ibraheem Ramadan, Syria, 10’)

Between two trains (Ahmad Emad, Egypt, 2’34”)

If you leave (Zeina Azouqah, Jordan, 3’)

Inside Out (Rachel Mouawad, Lebanon/Canada, 2’48”)

The Third Deadly Sin (Majida Alsafadi, Sarah Zohair, Omnia Al Afifi, UAE, 5’10”)

Tea Story (Mohamed Kamal, Egypt, 2’44”)

Stranger at the door (Bassel Fatayeri, Lebanon, 3’30”)

Yearning [Saba] (Maria Mouteirek, Lebanon, 4’)

10pm – 12:15am: Feature film: Consuming Spirits by Chris Sullivan (USA)

Sunday, June 16:

6 – 7:30pm: Young audience screening: Feature film: Ernest & Celestine by Stéphane Aubier, Benjamin Renner and Vincent Patar (France/Belgium/Luxembourg)

8 – 9:30pm: Short musicals program: Toons and Tunes, a Carte Blanche to historian, journalist and music producer Nancy Denney-Phelps (USA)

10 – 11pm: Feature film: It’s such a Beautiful day by Don Hertzfeldt (USA)

Monday, June 17:

6 – 7pm: Anime Series dubbed into Arabic (TV series from the 70’s and 80’s): Zeina wa Nahhoul, Al Amira Yaqout and Lady Oscar

7:30 – 8:40pm: International Shorts Program 1

Oh Willy… (Emma de Swaef and Marc James Roels, Netherlands, 17’)

Chemin Faisant (Georges Schwizgebel, Switzerland, 4’14”)

About Killing the Pig (Simone Massi, Italy, 6’)

Drunker than a Skunk (Bill Plympton, USA, 3’30”)

The Man who was Afraid of Falling (Joseph Wallace, UK, 4’28”)

Once there was a King (Tytus Majerski, Poland, 5’23”)

The Backwater Gospel (Bo Mathorne, Denmark, 9’31”)

De riz ou d’Arménie (Samy Barras, Helene Marchal, Romain Blondelle, Celine Seille, France, 7’20”)

Bao (Sandra Desmazieres, France, 10’53”)

9 – 11:30pm: Tribute to Ray Harryhausen

The Harryhausen Chronicles, a feature documentary by Richard Schickel (USA) on Harryhausen, followed by the feature film: The 7^th Voyage of Sinbad by Nathan Juran (USA), based on an original story by Ray Harryhausen

Tuesday, June 18:

7 – 8pm: International Shorts Program 2

A Morning Stroll (Grant Orchard, UK, 7’)

Out on a Limb (Falk Schuster, Germany, 5’)

Comme des lapins [Chroniques de la poisse, chap. 2] (Osman Cerfon, France, 8’)

A Tangled Tale (Corrie Francis Parks, USA, 5’30”)

Twins (Peter Budinsky, Slovakia, 5’26”)

The Making of Longbird (Will Anderson, UK, 15’18”)

Zseman (Nadja Andrasev, Hanna Carlson, Milan Kopasz, Maja Szakadat, Hungary, 2’41”)

Oh Sheep! (Gottfried Mentor, Germany, 6’40”)

The Pub (Joseph Pierce, UK, 7’45”)

8:30pm: Closing ceremony with the screening of the cult film Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo (Japan)