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Nov 2017
36m 7s

Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival

Tea With Culture
About this episode
An interview about Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival in Beirut, the only festival in the Arab world focusing exclusively on modern genre film, bringing the best horror, thriller, fantasy and action films from around the globe . Wael Hattar meets Maskoon's co-founders Antoine Waked (Creative Director) and Myriam Sassine(Executive Director) to talk about the f ... Show More
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