Ghent Film Week: And the Fish Fly above Our Heads + Short
- Aug 20
- 2 min read
SUNDAY, 4 OCTOBER / 20:00 - 22.00
This screening session includes 1 short film + 1 feature film.
All films are in English and/or have English subtitles.
@ Velvet Room, Alpacastraat 29, 9000 Ghent, Belgium Entry is free and includes a drink!
The Ghent Film Week is often referred to as Europe's most obscure film festival. An island oasis for art amidst a sea of commercialism. Sure, it's modest in form, as we mainly focus on screening films and less on the glitter and glamour. The festival focuses on contemporary cinema and video art and places its films where they belong – within the vibrant context of other art forms.
Kyiv Cake (Estonia, Ukraine) by Mykyta Lyskov
The events of the movie unfold in modern Ukraine. A child is born into a poor family, the parents do everything possible to survive, but just when the crisis reaches its peak, a new danger flares up.
Running time: 00:22:10
And the Fish Fly above Our Heads (Lebanon) by Dima Adib El-Horr
Twenty years ago, I came to a public beach in Beirut to film, a woman observing a world of men. Among them was Réda, his body gleaming in the sun. I started filming him and others. Two decades later, I return to the same spot. To my astonishment, Réda is still there, as if time itself had not moved, only his face marked by wrinkles, his body by age. I begin filming him again, and his two friends, Qassem and Adel. By the sea, I film three men adrift, three aging and fatigued bodies, silent witnesses to a country collapsing under the weight of wars, social despair, and economic crisis.Expecting no miracle, they wait by the sea with the same quiet fatalism that shapes their lives. Their waiting becomes mine, in a space suspended between sleep and wakefulness, between dreams and reality, between past and present.
Running time: 01:10:00
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