Opening Night of the Diaspora Film Festival
- Date
- November 01, 2018
- Time
- 7:00 PM EDT - 9:00 PM EDT
- Location
- LIB 72
OPENING NIGHT of the Diaspora Film Festival - Literary And Poetic Imagery Evening
RAWI HAGE BOOK READING
The 18th edition of Diaspora Film Festival opens with Literary and Poetic Imagery Evening.
In the first segment of the evening, the renowned Lebanese-Canadian author Rawi Hage reads from his latest novel Beirut Hellfire Society followed by an on-stage interview by the acclaimed filmmaker Atom Egoyan.
Beirut Hellfire Society is the fourth book by the Montreal based author Rawi Hage who is nominated for the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. This is the second time – after Cockroach – that Hage is nominated for all three prestigious Canadian literary awards. His first novel De Niro’s Game won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was nominated for the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award. In his latest work, Rawi Hage revisits his marginalized outcast characters in his war-torn birthplace Beirut during the civil war.
Here are some reviews on Beirut Hellfire Society:
The Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-montreal-author-rawi-hage-on-freedom-extinction-and-his-new-novel/ (external link)
The Literary and Poetic Imagery Evening is dedicated to the memory of Levon Haftvan, the Armenian-Iranian-Canadian director and actor and a Board member of Diaspora Film Festival. March 26, 1966 – March 10, 2018.
When: November 1st, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Where: Ryerson LIB 72. 350 Victoria St. Toronto
24 FRAMES
Abbas Kiarostami, Iran/France, 2017, 104 min, no dialogue
In collaboration with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Study Centre and School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, and Tirgan Festival
Abbas Kiarostami shot his last film just before his tragic death. A meditating bridge between photography and cinema, his last work captures the moments immediately before and after a photograph is taken. In 24 tableau-style still images, Kiarostami takes us with him on a voyage to his mystical world of unity with existence.
In his own words: “I’ve often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us unless it’s inside a frame.”
Here is a link to the trailer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6777170/videoplayer/vi3105404953?ref_=vi_nxt_ap (external link)
When: November 1st, 2018 at 8:15 pm
Where: Ryerson LIB 72. 350 Victoria St. Toronto
