Transfocus Film Festival: Screenings & Workshops

You are cordially invited to attend TransFocus: A Trans* Film Festival on Friday Nov 29th: AUB-Issam Fares Hall Saturday Nov 30th: AltCity-Hamra: Sunday Dec 1st: Minus1 – Ashrafiyeh: TransFocus is an independent film festival that addresses trans* and gender-variant topics, questions, persons, and politics in Lebanon. Through screening a few relevant international movies and grounding them in our local Lebanese context as much as possible, we're attempting to raise discussions, explore alliances, and create space for empowerment as well as for awareness. Please find a detailed description of our events and goals below; as well as an attached map. All events are open and free. Full Program: Friday 29th of November 2013 - AUB: Issam Fares Hall (Hamra) 18:00 – 18:30 ---------------- Open Doors 18:30 – 18:50 ---------------- Short Movie: Ursula's Victory (Spain, 16min) [EN & AR] 18:50 – 19:15 ---------------- Discussion & Break 19:15 – 20:30 ---------------- Full-length Documentary: Be Like Others (Iran, 74min) [EN & AR] 20:30 – 21:00 ---------------- Discussion & Break 21:00 – 21:40 ---------------- Short Documentary: Are we so different (Bangladesh, 36min) [EN & AR] 21:40 – 22:00 ---------------- Discussion & Closing Saturday 30th of November 2013 - Alt City (Hamra) 16:00 – 16:30 ---------------- Open doors 16:30 – 17:00 ---------------- Introduction of Panel 1 (Legal and Psychological) 17:00 – 18:00 ---------------- Guided Workshops with Dr. Michael Khoury & Me. Yumna Makhlouf 18:00 – 18:15 ---------------- Break 18:15 – 19:15 ---------------- Regroup: Summary of Workshops and Steps Forward 19:15 – 20:00 ---------------- TDOR Exhibit Sunday 1st of December 2013 - Minus 1 (Ashrafiyeh) 13:30 – 14:00 ---------------- Open Doors 14:00 – 15:15 ---------------- Full-length Feature Film: Facing Mirrors (Germany & Iran, 102 min) [EN only] 15:15 – 16:00 ---------------- Discussion & Break 16:00 – 16:15 ---------------- Introduction of Panel 2 (Medical) 16:15 – 17:15 ---------------- Guided Workshop with Dr. Faysal al-Kak 17:15 – 17:30 ---------------- Break 17:30 – 18:45 ---------------- Surprise Movie! (80 mins) [EN & AR] 18:45 – 19:30 ---------------- Discussion & Closing [facebook event]