BEIRUT BLEND / BEJRUTSKI MIKS
BEIRUT BLEND
In Competition > Documentaries
Film info| Country | Austria | Year | 2013. |
| Director | Fritz Ofner | Runtime | 30 |
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“Blend” is the cut of a type of tobacco that glistens at six places in Beirut under the glowing stone of the water pipe at the film’s center. “Blend” also means “mingling,” to “mix,” resulting in a “mélange.” And this is precisely what happens in thirty minutes of low-key black-and-white compositions in which those portrayed talk about the need for daily sports and also about Gaddafi’s fortune, Arab spring, the Middle-East conflict, and gender relations in supposedly post-modern societies.
Fritz Ofner (born 1977) is a freelance film director and cameraman and lives in Vienna. He was born in Styria in 1977 and studied Journalism and Ethnology in Vienna. After graduating he worked as an NGO activist, freelance journalist and TV producer. Extensive travel through Asia, Africa and Latin America eventually led him to documentary film. In 2011 he received the Axel Springer Award for his TV documentary, "From Baghdad to Dallas". "The Evolution of Violence" is his first documentary for theatrical release.
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