"Chopin. Nie boj si ciemnoci" to dokument, splatajcy historie trzech wybitnych pianistów, których poza pasj do muzyki Chopina cz trudne dowiadczenia historyczne, odciskajce pitno na yciu spoeczeństw. W filmie mamy szans pozna historie opowiedziane przez Leszka Modera, Wona Jae – Yeona oraz Faresa Marka Basmadjiego. Stajemy si te uczestnikami wyjtkowych konce...
IN FIELDS OF WORDS: CONVERSATIONS WITH SAMAR YAZBEK questions how words and images represent war and violence. The spectator experiences the production of language through the renowned exiled Syrian writer’s works that bear witness to the Syrian tragedy.
All that is left from the relationship between Rachid and Mariam, Ahmed Ghossein’s parents, is a large number of radio cassettes sent as love letters during the Lebanese civil war. Using these tapes together with images from the present and the past, “My Father is Still a Communist” creates a unique space where an intimate diary is transformed into a work of collective memory.
Afric Hotel (VdR 2011) focuses on migrants from Sub- Saharan Africa transiting through Algiers. One of them is a lift operator—always with a book in his hand—, another is a shoe- maker and the last works in construction. Hassen Ferhani and Nabil Djedouani’s camera follows these protagonists who are all too often ignored as they interact with the people of Algiers.
A panoramic shot over the terraces of Algiers. The camera zooms in and out, seeming to unexpectedly capture the private daily conversations of the inhabitants of Algiers. With this short essay, the filmmaker wants to show "Algerian society’s openness to the world and to modern ways, as well as its contradictions with regard to traditions.”
To the west of Seriana, the world stops turning for an instant under the heat of the sun, due to a flat tyre... This film is part of the Minutes 2016 collection initiated by the GREC (Groupe de Recherches et d’Essais Cinématographiques) created in 1969 by Jean Rouch, Pierre Braunberger and Anatole Dauman to support the creation of first short films.
A stroll through the Cervantes district of Algiers in search of people and stories that may have been born there: from Tarzan to Don Quixote, reality and fiction intertwine. A neighbourhood’s collective memory intersects with that of the history of cinema. This whimsical and charming short film falls halfway between cinephile comedy and urban legend.
En Méditerranée, un lieu réel et fictif à la fois. Là d’où Icare s’est jeté pour se brler les ailes. Là où se croisent paquebots, pêcheurs, migrants fuyant le désastre, sauveteurs et scientifiques étudiant les conséquences du réchauffement sur les fonds marins. Là où des signes se révèlent : notre capacité à mesurer et à interpréter le monde n’est-elle pas tombée dans une déme...
Raymonde - diva, queen, enigma, inspiration, survivor, widow, woman, and mother. Armed with a camera, Yael Abecassis followed her mother and stepped into a world where she had always been a stranger. "You know, daughter, Morocco is a kind of therapy," Raymonde says, and for the first time, they embark on a journey together: from a childhood in the mellah of Casablanca to the du...
Latif Al Ani photographed Iraq before the wars. Today he travels his country in search of the people and places in his pictures, sharing them with Iraqis who no longer recognise the world he reveals.
I Am Ahmad, a 1966 13 min. revelatory short, was originally censored before its stormy release. In the film, a nave Arab manual laborer from the periphery of pre-1967 Israel tries again and again – and is repeatedly refused – to rent an apartment in Jewish and liberal Tel Aviv.
Fifty years later, top Arab and Jewish alumni of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School conduct a poi...