In “Barakat”, an elderly man prepares for his grandson’s wedding and tries to adapt to the accelerating rate of change in Beirut.

Lidia in “Tshweesh” walks in Beirut, as the people of the city eagerly await the kick-off of the football World Cup. The signal of the first match is disrupted by strange audio waves.

The legend of Manivelle, the automaton gifted to Lebanon in 1945, still haunts an abandoned mansion in Beirut. “Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow” offers a funny, sad, and weird look at the life of the Middle East’s first and only living robot and the stories you won’t find in your history books.