Claw Machine is the story of an immersion into the experience of being uprooted. Fragments and words. The unspoken, the indescribable. Memory shaken. Eyes closed. The city is under siege. Drift towards the unknown. The dilemma: resistance or migration? Mediterranean voyages of no return.

Selections

Sole Luna Doc (Palermo, Sicily, August 2023)
REEF (Kobayet, Lebanon, Sept. 2023)
Drama International Short film festival (Drama, Greece, Sept. 2023)
Animasyros Animation film Festival (Syros, Greece, Sept 2023)
Dubai Film Festival (UAE, January 2024)

Prices

Sole Luna Doc: AWARD 'FILM FOR OUR FUTURE'
AUDIENCE AWARD
REEF: AWARD / SHORT FILM COMPETITION FIRST PRIZE
ANIMASYROS: AWARD / BEST GREEK FILM
DUBAI FILM FESTIVAL: HONORABLE MENTION

GEORGES SALAMEH

Greek-Lebanese lens based artist & filmmaker. Born in Beirut, 1973. Studied Film at Paris VIII St. Denis. Lived in Beit Mery, Larnaca, Athens, Paris, Cairo and Palermo. Since 1998, has created video & photographic installations, directed documentaries, experimental, animation and essay films. FILMOGROPHY (selected) HOLD MY ME (Greece 2005, 12min) MOUNT FALAKRO (Italy 2007, 29min) TI VITTI (Italy 2012, 29min) THE INVISIBLE HANDS (Greece-Egypt 2017, 97min) CLAW MACHINE (Greece 2023, 14min) HIPPODAMIA (Greece 2023, 17min)