| Cairo and Beirut are the focus of this compilation of short films. The Lebanese filmmakers set out in search of Beirut as it once was and perhaps could be again, in the process inventing images of a metropolis. Cairo, at least in Carol Mansour's "100% Asphalt", is a city of dangers and excesses for "children who aren';t children anymore". They live on the streets, exposed to drugs, noise and violence, lonely and always on the run ... Roy Samaha will be present at the screening.
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