de Mahmoud Kaabour / Moyen métrage Documentaire / Émirats arabes unis, Qatar, Liban / 2010 / 48 min / Couleur / HDCAM

"Grandma, A Thousand Times" puts a feisty Beiruti grandmother at the center of brave film exercises designed to commemorate her many worlds before they are erased by the passage of time and her eventual death.
Teta Fatima is the 83-year old matriarch of the Kaabour family and the sharp-witted queen bee of an old Beiruti quarter. With great intimacy, the film documents her larger-than-life character as she struggles to cope with the silence of her once-buzzing house and imagines what awaits her beyond death. Meanwhile, her beloved violinist husband (deceased 20 years) is both an essential absence and presence. His features manifest through the face of their filmmaker grandson while his previously unpublished violin improvisations weave through her world and that of the film.
"Grandma, A Thousand Times" brings together grandfather, grandmother, and grandson in a playful magic-realist documentary that aims to defy a past death and a future one.

by Mahmoud Kaabour / Feature Documentary / United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Lebanon / 2010 / 48 min / Color / HDCAM
In Arabic, English / English, Arabic subtitles
Interests: About Family, Documentary, Dramedy
Rated: Suitable for all audiences

Director: Mahmoud Kaabour
Director of Photography: Muriel Aboulrouss
Executive Producer: Eva Star Sayre
Music: Nabil Amarshi
Cast: Teta Fatima Kaabour


FESTIVALS

2011 | London International Documentary Festival (LIDF), May 2011
* Winner- BEST FILM LIDF 2011
Screening: 14 May 2011 8:30 pm at Birkbeck Cinema
www.lidf.co.uk/film/grandma-a-thousand-times/


Dox Box
* Audience Award for Best International Documentary

2010 | Doha Tribeca Film Festival | October 2010
won: Audience Award for Best Documentary
won: Jury Special Mention for Filmmaker Mahmoud Kaabour.
* World Premiere
- Screenings
* Wed, Oct 27, 08:15 PM, City Center 04
Regular screening / Q&A: Filmmaker & Cast in attendance
* Fri, Oct 29, 06:00 PM, Villaggio 2
Regular screening / Q&A: Filmmaker & Cast in attendance
www.dohafilminstitute.com/filmfestival/films/grandma-a-thousand-times