A Man Fell

Giovanni C. Lorusso | Italy, Lebanon, France, Colombia | 2024 | 70'
Screenings
Sun 23 March H 19:00
Section
Original title
A Man Fell
Synopsis
Sabra, in Lebanon, is known for the massacre carried out in 1982 by the Lebanese Phalange and the Israeli army to kill Palestinian citizens and Lebanese Shiites, leaving more than 3,000 victims. Here stands the Gaza Hospital, which after having been a Palestine Liberation Organisation hospital in the late 1970s was later dismantled, becoming a symbol of the survival of Palestinians, who still find refuge there. In the Gaza Building lives the protagonist of the film, 11-year-old Arafat, who spends his time among the ruins of the building’s eleven floors. Together with his friend Muhammad, he thinks about how to explore the forbidden basement, where “there is only sex, drugs and death”, while everyone in the building talks about the probably false story of a man who allegedly fell from the fourth floor of that same building for unknown reasons.
Cast
Arafat Yasser Al Ali, Muhammad Ramzi Zayed, Jinen Al Ali, Jihad Khalaf Esa, Nour Amjad Al Nasim, M M Obama, Muhammad Esam Ghannam, Bissan Yasser Al Ali
Films Distribution
Revok
Production
Labo GCL, Primates, Revok
Editing
Giovanni C. Lorusso, Yasser Kamal Al Ali
Cinematography
Giovanni C. Lorusso
Editing
Valentina Andreoli, Giovanni C. Lorusso
Language
Arabic
Subtitles
Italian
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Biography
Giovanni C. Lorusso is a filmmaker with a background in literature at La Sapienza University of Rome, philosophy at the University of London, and film directing at the Sydney Film School. He has over a decade of work experience as a cinematographer for various productions in Asia, Oceania, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. His first two feature films, Song of All Ends and A Man Fell, were screened in Rotterdam IFF and Venice Days of the Mostra di Venezia in 2024. Lorusso is an accredited member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS). He has published the photography books The Limits of Rupture in Lebanon (2020-2021), VOICES in Paris (for a solo exhibition) (2021-2023), and Keep Fire Burning in Johannesburg (2018-2021).
Filmography
2024 - A Man Fell, ff
2024 - Song of All Ends, ff

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