On Friday 15th and Friday 22nd May, @mothership.marrickville, Miya Miya Film Club presents a two-night program: Films from the Frontlines of South Lebanon and Beirut.

Across two evenings, this program moves between ground and distance, tracing how memory, survival, and resistance are lived and carried in the wake of Israeli invasion. Together, the films hold space for what is lived, what is lost, and what continues.

The second night focuses on Beirut, reflecting on memory, distance, and inheritance. Where the South is lived on the ground, Beirut is carried across time.

Night Two: From Beirut
Friday 22nd May

Ship of Fools (Lebanon, 2024), directed by Alia Haju, moves through Beirut as a space shaped by uncertainty and drift, reworking the figure of the superhero as a way of moving through collapse, survival, and everyday life.

Phantom Beirut (أشباح بيروت, Lebanon, 1998), directed by Ghassan Salhab, unfolds in the years following the civil war. The film follows two men moving through a city that feels both familiar and estranged. Streets are rebuilt, but something intangible lingers. Memory is fractured, conversation circles, and the past resists being settled. What emerges is a portrait of a city suspended between reconstruction and amnesia.

Across the program, war is not always visible, but it persists, in memory, in absence, and in the emotional life of diaspora. What is lost is carried across generations, in language, in image, and in feeling.

On the night, food will be shared from our friend Anthony, a Lebanese Australian serving fresh manoushe in our courtyard that reminds us of home.

There will also be a musical performance by Mohamad Ali Abou Saleh of @baytsaleh, whose voice and oud fill the space with warmth, nostalgia, and a quiet sense of belonging.

Proceeds from the event will be donated to @nationstation__, a Beirut-based community kitchen supporting people displaced through ongoing attacks on South Lebanon and Beirut.

Miya Miya shirts designed and made by @verus.au, and hats designed by Jannah Abdelattif @art_by_heaven and stitched by @verus.au will be available, with all proceeds, minus production costs, donated.

Your ticket includes food, drinks from @gazacola.au, a donation, and covers venue, performer, and film licensing.

All films screen in Arabic with English subtitles.

Tickets available here.

In solidarity with Lebanon always ❤️