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 first night focuses on South Lebanon. The second turns to Beirut, reflecting on memory, distance, and inheritance. Where the South is lived on the ground, Beirut is carried across time.
Night One: South Lebanon
Friday 15th May
Up to the South (Talaeen a Junuub, Lebanon, 1993), directed by @jaycesalloum and Walid Raad, moves through the South as both place and image, reflecting on occupation and the conditions of witnessing.
Yaroun (Lebanon, 2023), directed by Zeinab Mahfoud @until.sunrise, follows the act of return, observing a landscape shaped by Israeli occupation, where home is held in tension through proximity to violence and uncertainty.
Buffer Zone (Lebanon, 2025), directed by @farrahberrou, returns again, but to devastation. Through fragments and iPhone footage, it traces the impact of Israeli invasion and the impossibility of fully grasping what has been lost.
Across the program, war is not distant. It is lived and carried in bodies, memory, and the spaces people refuse to leave.
On the night, food will be shared from our friend Anthony, a Lebanese Australian serving fresh manoushe in our courtyard.
There will also be a musical performance by Mohamad Ali Abou Saleh of @baytsaleh, whose voice and oud fill the space with warmth and nostalgia.
Proceeds will be donated to @nationstation__, supporting people displaced through ongoing attacks on South Lebanon and Beirut.
Miya Miya shirts by @verus.au and hats by Jannah Abdelattif @art_by_heaven, 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 ❤️