
Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow
film screening | followed by Q&A
14.06.2019 | 18:00
Lebanese International University – Beirut campus
Amphitheatre – Block D
FREE ADMISSION
film synopsis
A young filmmaker investigates the legend of Manivelle, an automaton gifted to Lebanon in 1945 that still haunts an abandoned mansion in Beirut. After being coaxed back out into the limelight, the people who knew him
Dubai International Film Festival
nominated for best
International Short Film Week Regensburg
won
Muscat International Film Festival
won the silver khanjar
Firenze FilmCorti Festival
won
Batroun Mediterranean Film Festival
won
Lebanese Film Festival
won
Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Awards
won
won
won
nominated for best director
Arab Film Festival (Malmö)
won
Sapporo International Short Film Festival
jury special mention
SciFi Film Festival Australia
won best international short
Clermont Ferrand
nominated for best
Boston Underground Film Festival
won
Fribourg Film Festival
nominated for best
BBC Arabic Film Festival
won
Best of NFMLA Awards
nominated for best
Bucheon International Fantastic Film
nominated for best

Born in Beirut 1977, Fadi [the fdz] Baki is a co-founder and co-editor of Samandal, one of the Middle East’s premiere comics magazines, and Beirut Animated, the Lebanese animation film festival,.Fadi currently divides his time between teaching, motion graphics, comics, and filmmaking.