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A Lebanese film screening that turns a mechanic's garage into something like a confessional. In a village outside Beirut, Fouad runs a quiet repair shop where customers come not just to fix their cars but to sit, drink coffee, and unburden themselves. As Lebanon's economic collapse tightens around them, the garage becomes a refuge — a place where despair can be named.

Director Karim Kassem frames the film as a deeply symbolic journey through Fouad's own psyche, a search for the other side. Starring Mohamad Alayan and Fouad Mahouly, the film moves between the mundane (scrap metal, chickens, goats) and the transcendent, finding something sacred in stillness and listening.

This screening is part of Cinema Arabiyya's ongoing Arab Film Calendar. Nitehawk is a small, intimate cinema in Prospect Park — the kind of room where a 95-minute film in DCP feels like it was made for that exact space. If you want to add a $10 donation to Man wa Salwa (a mutual aid fund for Lebanon), you can do so at checkout.