29 minutes, 2020 Director : Lamia IDRISS (Egypt) Production : Fig Leaf Studios (Egypt)
A film about the social pressures on single women over the age of thirty when they do not marry. The director herself is 35 and single. She takes women her age in her car, so they can talk freely about these pressures and express their own views on marriage.
Lamia IDRISS was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1983. Passionate about films, she has taken various training courses to make films. As part of the Cindelta workshop she made her first short documentary “Heart, you deserve that!”
11 minutes, 2019 Director : Tim ALSIOFI (Syria) Production : Bidayyat for Audiovisual Arts (Lebanon)
While home-made bombs were raining on Ghouta, civilians took refuge in their basements. I was one of them. Armed with my camera, I tried to film what I could not express in words.
Born in Douma in the Damascus countryside in 1994, Tim Alsiofi studied sound and music. He was unable to complete his studies due to the blockade imposed on the town of Douma and Eastern Ghouta. During this period, he worked as a director and sound engineer at the Russel Studio in Douma (2014-2018). In 2018 he was forced into exile. He also works as a presenter and reporter for several local and international radio stations. After his early days photographing his local region in 2013, he joined others sending images from the heart of Eastern Ghouta to numerous press agencies. He is part of the team of Sam Lenses and Russel Studio, and is a founding member of the charity Humanity in Syria. Tim has also worked as a videographer and cinematographer for several short and feature-length documentaries. “Still Recording” is one of his latest projects (2018, winner of five awards at Critics’ Week in Venice). He photographed and directed the short films “Sons of War” and “The Flute and the Cemetery” for Orient TV.
52 minutes, 2020 Director : Mehdi AHOUDIG (France) Production : Squaw (France), France Télévisions (France)
In a small town in southern Morocco retired people on modest pensions settle every winter, sheltered within the walls of a campsite. For the first time they can relax, enjoy life and think of escaping from a France they do not understand. Between their fantasy of Morocco and their imagined Moroccan, they take their chances. A few metres from the campsite a young Moroccan worker escapes from his family background by studying classical music. In a setting reminiscent of a town in a Western, this little group get to know each other, exchanging their fears and hopes.
Mehdi Ahoudig has made many radio documentaries for Arte Radio: for “Qui a connu Lolita?” in 2010 he received the Prix Europa for Best Radio Documentary in Berlin and in 2015 with “Poudreuse dans la Meuse”, he again won the Prix Europa for Best Radio Documentary in Berlin. That programme also won the Prix Grandes Ondes in Brest in 2016. He has co-directed two documentary films: “La parade” with Samuel Bollendorf (Étoile de la SCAM) and “On ira à Neuilly inch’allah” avec Anna Salzberg (Special Mention at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival Traces de Vies).
62 minutes, 2019 Director : Nejra LATIC HULUSIC (Bosnia-Herzegovina) Production : Hava Sarajevo (Bosnie-Herzegovina)
A young Bosnian, brought up in a house of radical Muslims, attempts to rebuild his life after he is accused of participating in a terrorist attack.
Nejra Latić Hulusić director and producer, is based in Sarajevo. Having graduated in film-making from the Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts, she created the production company Hava Sarajevo with Sabrina Begović – Ćorić. She directs and produces documentary and drama films. Her credits include the documentary “Her Cinema Love”, shown in several international documentary film festivals.
83 minutes, 2019 Réalisation : Emanuele GEROSA (Italy) Production : GraffitiDoc (Italy), Amka Films Productions (Swiss), ITAR Productions (Libanon), Rai Cinema (Italy)
Abdallah, a parkour professional athlete, managed to escape from Gaza. His friend Jehad, however, still lives there. He trains young athletes for whom sport remains the only thing tinged with hope in the midst of the conflict. Should you leave to fulfil your dreams, or stay to fight for your country? A question which hangs over this moving story about personal growth.
Emanuele GEROSA was born in 1975 in Rovereto, Italy. He studied contemporary history at the University of Bologna, Italy, before moving to Spain where he worked as a director and writer of documentaries, TV series and commercials. Back in his own country, in Milan, he decided to specialise in making documentaries. In 2015 he directed his first feature-length documentary, “Between Sisters”. It has been presented in numerous international festivals and has received several awards in Italy, Egypt, Spain and France.
(AT MANSOURAH YOU SEPARATED US) 68 minutes, 2019 Director : Dorothée-Myriam KELLOU (Algeria, France) Production : Les Films du Bilboquet (France), HKE Production (Algeria), Lyon Capitale TV (France), Sonntag Pictures (Danemark)
During the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62) more than two million people were displaced by the French Army in its fight against the FLN. Forced to abandon their homes, they were regrouped in camps. Now back in Mansourah where he was born, Malek and his daughter Dorothée-Myriam compile oral memories of a time until now never mentioned, which most young people know nothing about, although the upheavals it caused to this part of rural Algeria are unprecedented.
Dorothée-Myriam KELLOU is a journalist and director based in Paris. In Le Monde newspaper she revealed Lafarge’s indirect financing the Islamic State during the war in Syria. Her work was awarded the Trace International Prize for Journalistic Investigation in Washington DC. She has also been nominated for the Samir Kassir Prize for Press Freedom in the Arab World in Beirut and the Albert London Prize for Written Press in Paris.
84 minutes, 2019 Director : Pelin ESMER (Turkey) Production : Sinefilm (Turkey)
A travelling theatre group of Turkish peasant women performs along the dusty and treacherous roads winding up to the most remote mountain villages, where even drinking water is difficult to find. They transform Shakespeare’s “King Lear” into “Queen Lear”.
Pelin ESMER is a Turkish film-maker based in Istanbul. Having studied sociology, she turned to films. While working as an assistant director, she started making her own films. After her first documentary “The Collector”, she created her own company Sinefilm and wrote, directed and produced: “The Play” (Oyun received an award at the 2006 PriMed), “10 to 11”, “Watchtower” and “Something Useful”. Her films have been shown at several festivals around the world, notably in San Sebastian, Toronto, Rotterdam, Tribeca, Tallinn, Gothenburg, winning several awards.
60 minutes, 2019 Director : Enrico Cerasuolo (Italy) Production : Les Films du Poisson (France), Zenit Arti Audiovisive (Italy), Arte (France) in collaboration with Rai Com (Italy), in association with Istituto Luce Cinecittà (Italy)
Who can forget Anna Magnani’s face in “Rome, Open City”, running desperately to prevent her husband’s arrest? Magnificent and ordinary, comical and tragic, this immense actress, emblem of neorealism, revolutionized how women are represented. As volcanic in life as she was on screen, she impressed Hollywood with the power of her acting, becoming the first Italian to win an Oscar. Using material from original and private archives, particularly from the collections of the Istituto Luce and RAI, and with extracts from television shows, interviews with the biggest names of the time, and of course clips from remarkable films, the documentary plunges us into the golden age of Italian cinema. And traces the career of an exceptional actress who has marked cinema history.
Enrico Cerasuolo was born in Venice, in 1968. He graduated in Political Science and Contemporary History and has been chair of Zenit Arti Audiovisive since the company’s creation in 1992. Writer and director of documentary films, he has written and directed films which have been broadcast on several television channels in different countries and won awards at Italian and European festivals. His principal films are: “Last Call” (2013 52 / 90 minutes, ZDF ARTE, Zenit, Skoftland); “De Garibaldi à Berlusconi” (2011, 118 minutes, ARTE France, Les Films d’Ici, Zenit); “La Face cachée de la Peur” (2008 52 minutes, ARTE France, Les Films d’Ici, Zenit), etc.
75 minutes, 2019 Director : Kamal HACHKAR (France, Morocco) Production : HK’Art Studio (Morocco) in coproduction with Timbia Films (France), with the participation of TV 2M (Morocco)
Neta Elkayam and Amit Haï Cohen live in Jerusalem. Together they created a band whose music draws on and re-fashions their Judeo-Moroccan heritage. On stage as in life, they explore this dual identity, as if to repair the wounds of the exile their parents experienced. Punctuated by musical meetings, “In your Eyes, I see my Country” follows them on a Moroccan tour which changes their concept of themselves and what they want to become. From that comes the dream of creating bridges with the country of their forefathers.
Kamal HACHKAR is an independent Franco-Moroccan film-maker. Born in Morocco, he left the country at the age of six months with his mother to join his immigrant father in France. His entire childhood was marked by his father’s having to leave Morocco to find work. Because of this uprooting, he still has a special sympathy for the displaced. With a master’s degree in history from the Sorbonne University, he became a history teacher. In 2012 he made his first documentary, “Tinghir-Jerusalem: the echoes of the Mellah”: selected at the 2013 PriMed – the Festival of the Mediterranean in Images and at many festivals around the world, the film won several awards and sparked a national debate on the many faces of Morocco.
73 minutes, 2019 Director : Tal MICHAEL (Israel) Production : Cassis Films (Israel), Les Films d’Ici Méditerranée (France)
In a basement near Paris a treasure-trove of Egyptian animated films has been found. The films show the work of the Arab world’s pioneers in this genre, the Frenkel brothers: three exceptional young film-makers, creators of Mish-Mish Effendi, the Mickey Mouse of the entire region, which disappeared from Egyptian screens when the State of Israel was created. Through their animated images, we uncover the history of the Frenkel family, marked by exile, a trauma being repeated today. “Bukra fil Mish-Mish” is a common Arabic expression referring to something which will never happen: “if pigs could fly”. At the same time the extraordinary discovery of these films reveals a forgotten era gone forever, an Arab-Jewish golden age when the two communities could create things together. Not only has it disappeared, it has been erased from the pages of history.
Born in Haïfa in 1974, Tal MICHAEL is a film and television director. She has a degree in cinema and television from Tel Aviv University and worked on a doctorate on comparative literature. Among her films are the two documentaries “Around the Bed of a Dying Collaborator” (2018), “Pitbulls: Flesh and Blood” (2014).
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