Tyre International Short-Films Festival will take place next November 8-11 at El Hamra Cinema, Tyre, Lebanon.
An event that will bring to Sour of Lebanon the work of artists coming from more than 12 countries, Arabic and European, aiming to promote culture and creativity and to create a space for the people to meet and exchange experiences on cinema.
Following the path, El Hamra Cinema activities continue with a new milestone, after the International Theatre Festival that took place last June at Tyre, it is the time for the First International Short-Films Festival of Tyre, an event that aims to promote culture and creativity and to create a space for the people to meet and exchange experiences on cinema.
Kassem Istanbouli, actor and director now managing El Hamra Cinema of Tyre, is organizing with his team at El Hamra a Festival that wants to bring a space where the work of independent film makers coming from different realities will be shown.
25 October is the time-limit for participants to send their pieces,not exceeding 30 minutes duration, post-produced in the last three years.Selected films shall be published by end of October 2014.
El Hamra Cinema was built in 1952, hosting the Culture of Tyre since then until the war abandoned the place. The Cinema had been closed for 30 years when Kassem Istanbouli and his team re-opened El Hamra and organized an International Theatre Festival that took place in the beginning of June 2.014.