In the half-light of a city that never quite decided whether it preferred neon or fog, the Parnaqrafiya cinema sat crooked between a shuttered vinyl shop and a noodle stall that smelled of garlic and distant rain. People said the theater had been a mistake from the start: built for a different century, maintained by stubborn hands, and programmed by a curator with a taste for unruly films that asked more questions than they answered.