The Gaza Building, a former PLO hospital, is a symbol of Palestinian survival in the refugee camp of Sabra (Beirut) North of Shatila camp. Across the building’s 11 floors, 11 year-old Arafat spends his time spying at his neighbour, destroying falling parts of the structure and training his dog. Together with his friend Muhammad they think of ways to explore the forbidden underground, where “there is only sex, drug and death.” Meanwhile everyone in the building is talking about the potentially fake story of a man that has just fallen off the 4th floor of the building, the cause being unknown.

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
This is a place where light is lost within its walls and nothing is able to reflect in here. Like a sponge, shadows absorb everything leaving only sharp, brief spaces of brightness. Within these spaces are confined the lives of the inhabitants of the building: an uninterrupted movement between islands of luminance. At nightfall all is abandoned to complete darkness. By then those islands of light become even rarer, more separated, indeed more isolated. And the shadows take fully over the air, until the 5 mosques surrounding the building rhythmically remind of the coming of a new day. A Man Fell was born out of chance. On my fourth journey to Lebanon, with the intent of discovering new aspects of the neighbourhood of Shatila, I was faced with unexpected changes in the socio-dynamics and many safe conditions were no longer available to continue my work there. Until I entered the Gaza Building and be welcomed by its tenants.