Better be quiet so as to hear the cries of those suffocating under the rubble. Better be quiet so as to locate those remaining lives. Better be quiet so as to pay respect to the arising souls! Let us put vulgarity on pause for a
Here goes another year as recurrent in events as every other year. Nothing new, really. Wars and conflicts ravaging the planet, continuous migrations, hunger in some parts of the world, satiation and luxury in others, racism flourishing, fascism returning, patriarchy at its best, and colonization
The organisers of the Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival for genre films insisted on holding its sixth edition between the 12th and 16th of December despite the “nightmare” that Lebanon is experiencing.
At every attempt to write to you, we fail.
All those torn papers. The shame!
Shame, Alaa, the one that creeps into the soul and penetrates the bones.
“They killed my angel,” says the mother of the young Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was killed following her arrest by what is known in Iran as the “Guidance Patrol”!
Amini was arrested on September 13 for not complying with the “dress code imposed
We are proud to announce the launch of the first round of Beirut DC Impact Fund, the first of its kind in the Arab region. The fund supports Impact Campaigns built around groundbreaking Arab films that address the most important social, political and environmental issues
At the beginning of September, the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman) asked Netflix to remove content they considered “offensive”.
“If You See Me, Then Weep.” An ancient German inscription appears on a stone in the Elbe River on the Czech-German border upon the receding of waters to alarming levels.
The Impact Fellowship is a brand new year-long training program created by Beirut DC. Over the course of a full year, the 10 fellows from a variety of backgrounds will be trained to become professional Impact Producers.
