BLIND JUSTICE

28 minutes, 2015
Réalisation : Baheyyah AL-NAMMOUR (Palestine, Jordanie)
Production : Vision for TV Production (Jordanie)

After more than thirty years, the massacre of Sabra and Shatila resurfaces again.
The performers are still free, because justice has not taken into consideration the statements of eyewitnesses and official record that contradicts reports from  Red Cross and civil defense forces .

Baheyyah AL-NAMMOUR is a Jordanian filmmaker  with more than twenty hours of documentary films broadcasted on national and international channels.
She is currently the head of the production company  Vision For TV Production Department in Amman.

WHEELS OF WAR

57 minutes, 2015
Director: Rami KODEIH (the Lebanon)
Production: Al Jazeera Documentary Channel (Qatar)

From 1975 to 1990, the Lebanon was involved in a devastating civil war which cost the lives of about 200,000 people. A whole generation of young people fought in the name of different faiths.
In the wake of the war, many of these young militiamen have found peace in an unlikely place. “Wheels of War” tells their story.

Rami KODEIH was born in 1983.
He studied film directing at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts. His graduation film “A Sheherazade Tale” was selected for the 2008 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and he won the Best Arab Film Award at the 2007 Jordan Short Film Festival.
Since then he has written and directed his second short “The Mill” and more recently the documentary “Wheels of War”.
He makes documentaries for Al Jazeera and industrial films for several agencies.

MURAT, LE GÉOGRAPHE

70 minutes, 2015
Director: Samuele PELLECCHIA (Italy)
Production: Prospekt Photographers (Italy), Università di Cagliari (Italy)

Soon online an extract of the film

What is a city and how does it evolve? An Italian geographer arrives in Marseille to research one of Europe’s largest urban regeneration projects of recent decades: the Euro-Mediterranean project.
He stays in the Belle de Mai, a working class district close to the project. Simply living in this area, the ordinary practices and everyday life he witnesses turn his certainties upside down.
Looking at Marseille from this little world, conceptual categories and interpretive models prove both ineffective and useless. Because urban space is ultimately the result of the complex relationship between desires, dreams, debates, practices and limitations – it also depends on each individual observer.

MURAT – Multiplicity Urban Representational Amazing Theory is the collective name for everyone who has participated in this film-cum-research.

Samuele PELLECCHIA was born in 1972.
He is the creator of the photographic agency Prospekt and works as a photographer. His work has been published in different magazines such as Newsweek, GQ, Vanity Fair, Private, New York Times, International Herald Tribune and Russian Reporter. He has worked on photographic projects and publications sponsored by international institutions, NGO’s and foundations.
Since 2010 he has also made videos as director and producer.
His first webdoc “The iron curtain diaries” was selected at Amsterdam’s Idfa, at the Prix France 24-RFI for web-documentaries, at Visa pour l’Image 2009 and at the Festival des 4 Écrans in Paris.
In 2011, his project “Close To Me” was selected for the Nuit de l’Année at the Rencontres d’Arles. As a producer he won first prize at the 2012 Rome International Film Festival, the Prospettive per l’Italia, for Luca Ferrari’s “Pezzi”.

LORO DI NAPOLI

69 minutes, 2015
Réalisation : Pierfrancesco LI DONNI (Italie)
Production : Own Air (Italie), Minollo Film (Italie)

In Naples the football team Afro Napoli United have moved up into the national league, a dream for its players – mostly immigrants from the Ivory Coast, Cape Verde, Senegal and Brazil. But none of them has a residence permit. Maxim came from a country at war. Adam, who dropped out of school, is goalkeeper and bartender. Lello, stateless, left a son behind. They struggle through the morass of Italian immigration laws, helped by their coach, Antonio.

Pierfrancesco LI DONNI was born in Palermo in 1984.
He studied contemporary history and visual arts at the University of Bologna.
As a director he has three documentaries to his credit: “Loro di Napoli” (2015), “Sempre vivi” (2013) and “Il secondo tempo” (2012).

LES DERNIERS NOMADES

54 minutes, 2016
Director: Hamdi BEN AHMED (Tunisia)
Production: No Pasaran Production (Tunisia)

Cut off from the world, in the extreme south of Tunisia, with neither papers nor birth certificates, the Rebayaa tribe maintains the nomadic lifestyle of its ancestors. “Les Derniers Nomades” brings us into their daily life, showing us their traditions, songs and music. But slowly people within the community are starting to wonder which road they should take to the “civilized” world.

Hamdi BEN AHMED, a young Tunisian director, made his first short film “Métamorphose” in 2006. In 2011, with grants from the Tunisian Ministry of Culture, he made a documentary “Préhistoire de la Tunisie”, a film selected at several festivals such as the Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage, FESPACO and FOFA where in 2012 he won the Best Arab Documentary Award. “Les Derniers Nomades” is his first feature-length film.

TONI CATANY. TIME AND THINGS

55 minutes, 2015
Director: Cesc MULET (Spain)
Production: La Periferica Produccions (Spain), Corporación Radio Televisión Española (Spain), Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (Spain)

Toni Catany was born in Llucmajor (Majorca) in 1942.
In 1967 he began working as a photographer and then wrote travel articles for La Vanguardia and Destino.
In 1972 he had his first exhibition, followed by 200 more worldwide. He is known for his landscapes and photographs of Mediterranean people.
He died in Barcelona in 2013.

Cesc MULET was born in Inca (Majorca) in 1957.
He worked in the film industry in Madrid and Barcelona before creating his own production company La Perifèrica Produccions in Palma de Mallorca.
Since 1997 he has made and produced feature films and documentaries.
As director, he has to his credit the following films: “Postcards & Memories”, “Studium”, “The Bishop, the architect and the baldachin. Gaudi in the Mallorca Cathedral”, “Brother Juníper, the man that walked”, “La ciutat esvaïda”

TISSEUSES DE RÊVES

52 minutes, 2015
Director: Fatima Ithri IRHOUDANE (Morocco)
Production: AMC2 Productions (France), MPS (Morocco), Berbère TV (France), 2M (Morocco), TL7 (France), TV8 Mont Blanc (France)

A handful of Berber women from Morocco’s Middle Atlas, carpet weavers during the night hours, talk about their craft, their traditions, their lives and their future. They live off their plentiful dreams, occasionally allowing others a glimpse into their private world.
Mothers, daughters, grandmothers, all work hard at domestic tasks such as the manufacture of traditional carpets. In a self-sufficient economy, they still have no financial autonomy, nor recognition of their talent. They are desperate to break free from their social status and provide an education and future for their children.
From Essaouira, on the Atlantic coast, comes news of very similar women who have changed their lives by creating cooperatives to produce argan oil. Taaborth and Erkia set out to investigate and, amazed, tell their sisters about this first journey beyond their mountains, filling them with hope.

Fatima Ithri IRHOUDANEFatima Ithri Irhoudane is a Moroccan journalist and film-maker. She writes film reviews under the name Ghodane Afares. Obsessed with the cinema and Jean Rouch’s career, “Tisseuses de Rêves” is her first documentary film.

CHŒURS EN EXIL

77 minutes, 2015
Directors: Nathalie ROSSETTI (Belgium, Italy) and Turi FINOCCHIARO (Belgium, Italy)
Production: Les Productions du Lagon (France), Borak Films (Belgium), Touch Films (Poland)

To pass on an ancient tradition of religious chant, Aram and Virginia, two Armenians now living outside their country, take a group of European actors from Wroclaw’s Grotowski Institute on a first-time journey to Anatolia where this style of singing once flourished. Along the way, their questions reveal the wealth of a destroyed culture: singing and acting then become the language of creation and sharing, the breath of life.

Nathalie ROSSETTI et Turi FINOCCHIARO

After university studies at Bologna’s DAMS (Discipline delle Arte, della Musica et dello Spettacolo), complemented by theatre training with Orazio Costa in Florence, Nathalie Rossetti worked as assistant director and musical consultant on several feature films.
With the help of her husband Turi Finocchiaro, she has directed several short films before turning to creative documentaries. The subjects closest to her are art, endangered cultures, anthropology and human rights.
In 2007, she created the Faito Doc Festival near Naples, an international documentary festival of which she is the artistic director.

After university, Turi Finocchiaro worked on several international co-productions as stage manager, production manager and executive producer. Familiar with how the EU works, he created EFC, a consulting firm for developing European co-productions (Media & Eurimages).
With his company, Impronte Digitali, he produced his first documentary in Rome in 1998. Back in Belgium in 2004, he turned to co-direction with Nathalie Rossetti. In 2009 they created Borak Films.
Turi Finocchiaro has participated in the EAVE and EURODOC training programmes. He is artistic co-director of the Faito Doc Festival, created in 2007 with Nathalie Rossetti.

ARABIC MOVIE

62 minutes, 2015
Director: Eyal SAGUI BEZAWIE (Israel) and Sara TSIFRONI (Israel)
Production: Trabelsi Productions (Israel)

At the time when Israel’s worst enemy was Egypt, Israeli television used to broadcast an Egyptian film every week.
Even today, many Israelis look back with nostalgia at that Friday night ritual, a time when television only had one channel. Everyone used to watch the Arab film of the week, but how many wondered how the official Israeli television company managed to cross the border to get these films, and what was the reason for this persistent desire to show films made by the “enemy”?

Eyal BEZAWIE SAGI is a researcher specializing in Egyptian cinema and popular culture. He studied Arab literature, Middle Eastern history and cultural studies, now teaching in several art and film schools.
He also works as a television writer and as editor in the art and culture department of the daily newspaper Haaretz. “Arabic Movie” is his first film.

Sara TSIFRONI studied sociology and anthropology at Tel Aviv University.
In 1992 she began working as a journalist on several newspapers. Since 1998 she has been a documentary film-maker and writer on television projects and documentaries. “Arabic Movie” is her first film.