THE NIGHT BETWEEN
ALI & I
Hybrid short film and 3 channel videoinstallation, 2015
Codirected by Laila Hotait and Nadia Hotait
Ali was a poet and he knew how to steal hearts, but he didn’t know how to steal a bank.
Ali era poeta y sabía cómo robar corazones, pero no supo cómo robar un banco.
Generacio- nes Art Award
The Night between Ali and I
is a fictional reenactment of one of the key events that happened in Lebanese and Levantine contemporary History: the highjack of 39 hostages at the Bank of America in Beirut, on October 18th, 1973.
Distributed by: Marvin & Wayne
Contact and Screen: If you want to organize a screening of THE NIGHT BETWEEN ALI & I, please, write
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SCREENINGS
FILM FESTIVALS SELECTIONS
Les Rencontres Internationales,
Paris, January 2016
Les Rencontres Internationales
Berlin and Paris, March 2016
Guanajuato International Film Festival
July, 2016
XII Muestra de Mujeres en el cine y la TV
México City, 2016
EXHIBITIONS
Arte Laguna Art Prize Exhibition
Arsenale, Venezia, 2017
Celeste Prize Exhibition
Ex-Bazzi, Milan, 2016. Finalist Grand Prize
Geração 2015 Mostra Espanha
Plataforma Revólver, Lisboa, 2015
Generación 2015
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2015
CREDITS
Directors: Nadia Hotait & Laila Hotait
Script: Nadia Hotait & Laila Hotait
Cast: Amer Farroukh, Mariam Cheaib, Mohamed Cheaib
Cinematography: Karim Ghorayeb
Sound: Móskar and Laila Hotait
Editing: Daniel Torrico and Nadia Hotait
Music: Móskar
Production: Laaventura
Co-production: Spain /Lebanon
Choreographer: Dima Hashisho
Production Assistants: Mahmoud Abou Zeid and Suraia Abud Coaiek