NINETY

At ninety, writer Mikhaïl Naïma looks back on the century he has lived through and sheds light on the present.

In 1978, filmmaker Maroun Bagdadi meets the Lebanese writer and poet Mikhaïl Naïma, a member of the Pen League, the first Arabic-language literary society in America. Before the camera, Naïma recalls his childhood in Baskinta, his exile and the encounters that shaped his thinking. Khalil Gibran, friend and fellow traveller, also emerges. But it is in simple moments — a family memory, a conversation with his granddaughter — that the power of a transmission across generations comes into view.

WITH SOURAYA BAGHDADI

With CINEMAMED & BAFF – Beirut Art Film Festival