Transit Game to hit theatres

byHabib Battah
Sep 20, 2014

A film I co-produced will be screening in Europe next week. Transit Game was shot in the mountains of North Lebanon and features a Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian cast and crew, including Syrian TV star Jalal Altawil. The film was directed by Anna Fahr, cinematography by Bassem Fayad and line production by Ginger Beirut Productions, which has made some of Nadine Labaki’s box office hits. Go see it if you are in Sweden next weekend at the Malmo festival. It will also be showing at the Beirut International Film Festival early next month. (Check links for listings and ticket info.)

Follow the Transit Game Facebook page for information about upcoming screenings in other cities and continents which will be announced shortly.

Habib Battah

Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 15 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.