Document May Matinee: A Man Fell (2024) and Coup 53 (2019)

Document's International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival returns for a May matinee at The Glad Cafe, featuring documentary cinema on Iran (Coup 53, 2019) and Lebanon (A Man Fell, 2024). Scroll down to see the full schedule and programme details.
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Info: The Gaza Building, a former PLO hospital, is a symbol of Palestinian survival in the refugee camp of Sabra (Beirut) North of Shatila camp.

Across the building’s 11 floors, 11 year-old Arafat spends his time spying at his neighbour, destroying falling parts of the structure and training his dog. Together with his friend Muhammad they think of ways to explore the forbidden underground, where ‘there is only sex, drug and death’.

Meanwhile everyone in the building is talking about the potentially fake story of a man that has just fallen off the 4th floor of the building, the cause being unknown.

Info: With Iran and the world once again on the brink, COUP 53 feels less like history and more like a warning.

In 1953, a military coup led by British MI6 backed by the CIA overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh. His crime: nationalising the country's oil. The truth behind that original regime change for oil was buried for decades.

Iranian director Taghi Amirani spent ten years uncovering what really happened. Working with legendary editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The English Patient) and a gripping performance by Ralph Fiennes, the film unfolds like a John le Carré spy thriller — except every word is true.

COUP 53 exposes the roots of today's tensions with rare clarity and urgency.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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