Nicolas Fattouh

Nicolas, the director of “Beirut Animation Nights” festival, will travel from Montreal to Beirut to organize, develop, and promote the festival. This newly established initiative is dedicated to showcasing animated films, with a special emphasis on emerging artists. The festival aspires to become a hub where filmmakers from Lebanon and the world can come together, collaborate, and present their creations to a wider audience by providing a platform for exchanging ideas and expertise.

How do we process the loss of a loved one? Can the objects left behind help us live with their memory? “Living with a Piece of Furniture” is an immersive performance about a family experiencing different stages of grief which this work explores by injecting life into a static piece of furniture with the five senses: smell, sound, sight, taste and touch