ND/NF 2008 Program Overview Frozen River Ballast Correction Eat, for This... Epitaph Falling from Earth... Foster Child La France Japan Japan... Jellyfish A Lost Man Megane Momma’s Man Moving Midway Munyurangabo Sleep Dealer Slingshot Hip Hop Soul Carriage The Toe Tactic Trouble the Water Valse Sentimentale Water Lilies We Went to Wonderland Wonderful Town XXY La Zona HBO Films Roundtable ND/NF Classics Closing Night Party Ticket Info About Submissions Past ND/NF Festivals

Falling from Earth screening with Cinema Mundial (1957-2007) Series: New Directors/New Films [March 26 - April 6, 2008] Falling from Earth Chadi Zeneddine, Lebanon/France, 2007; 65m A true cinema poet, Chadi Zeneddine’s poignantly surrealist debut film pays tribute to four lonely people trying to survive their own private wars in Beirut. These seamlessly woven chapters each reflect their own particular time and place. In 1958, a solitary little girl exchanges her world of toys and make-believe for a camera that captures the harsher reality outside. In 1975, a security official grieving over the loss of a loved one finds solace in the graffiti he reads and scrawls in a men’s room. In 1982, a woman dances and weeps, waiting in vain for a missing lover. And in the present, Joussef has a magical encounter. Falling From Earth is a moving elegy for a lost homeland from a director whose talent and sensitivity imbue every frame. Chadi Zeneddine is a Lebanese filmmaker currently living in France, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies at La Sorbonne. Falling From Earth is his first feature film. screening with Cinema Mundial (1957-2007) Carles Asensio Monrabá, Spain, 2007; 21m Carles Asensio Monrabá's featurette about a film theater in Sant Celoni, a village of Barcelona, is seen through the eyes of projectionists and the theater’s disillusioned owner. A collection of nostalgic images about the tactile joys of handling film become a passionate ode to cinema. Carles Asensio Monrabà was born in Sant Celoni, Barcelona, Spain. Along with his filmmaking career, he founded theater company, Irma Vep, with actress Clara Macías Carcedo. Tue Apr 1: 6:15pm (WRT) Wed Apr 2: 8:45pm (MoMA)

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