Guy De Troyer
Synopsis
Marrakech was in 1940 the hometown to 25.000 Jews, today only about 100 remain. This essay documentary makes an intimate journey into the world of Paulette, one of the last remaining Jews who decided to stay and is reflecting on a universal question: where do you feel at home?
الملخص
كانت مراكش في عام 1940 مسقط رأس لـ 25.000 يهودي ، واليوم أصبح عددهم لا يتجاوز المائة. يقوم هذا الفيلم الوثائقي برحلة حميمة إلى عالم “بوليت” ، أحد آخر اليهود المتبقين الذين قرروا البقاء كما يطرح هذا الفيلم السؤال الكوني التالي: أين تشعر أنك في وطنك؟
Writer: Guy De Troyer
Director: Guy De Troyer
Producer:
Mostafa Benkerroum
Country of Origin: Belgium
Runtime: 28 minutes
Production year: 2021
إخراج : غي دي طروي
سيناريو : غي دي طروي
إنتاج : مصطفى بنكروم
البلد : بلجيكا
المدة : 28 دقيقة
سنة الإنتاج : 2021
Guy De Troyer obtained a master’s degree in Political and Social Sciences (Communication Science) at Ghent University and worked for many years as a journalist, television reporter and podcaster on VRT, the flemish public broadcaster in Belgium. Together with a fellow journalist, he has won twice the Belfius Press Prize, the most important journalistic award in Belgium. Once for the television report ‘The Divided Class’, in which a famous American social experience about racism was repeated in an Antwerp class. The second press prize went to his podcast series ‘The girls of the night’, about human trafficking in Nigerian prostitution in Brussels. Out of a desire to think more profoundly about his position as a storyteller, he left his job and went to the Royal Institute of Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) in Brussels. Two of his Bachelor’s short films have been selected at festivals: ‘Léon Trouet Mokuna’ was shown at the Leuven International Short Film Festival and ‘Hallebaan 3’ was selected at the Independent Brussels Film Festival. His master film ‘Et si pas maintenant, quand? (And if not now, when?) is an intimate essay documentary into the world of Paulette, one of the last remaining Jews in Marrakech, from what in 1940 was still a thriving community of 25,000 Jews. The world premiere was at the International Filmfestival Docville in Belgium (Sabam night) in march 2022.
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Majid Al-Remaihi
Synopsis
And Then They Burn the sea is an elegiac contemplation on familial memory and loss. Filmmaker Majid Al-Remaihi ruminates on the experience of witnessing his mother’s gradual and terminal memory loss over the course of many years. Weaving a personal family archive, reenacted dreams and rituals, the film underlines the promise of cinema as a medium for memories even at their most irretrievable.
الملخص
ثم يحرقون البحر هو تأمل رثائي في الذاكرة العائلية وفقدانها. يتأمل المخرج ماجد الرميحي في تجربة مشاهدة والدته وهي تفقد ذاكرتها بشكل تدريجي ونهائي على مدار سنوات عديدة. من خلال نسج أرشيف عائلي شخصي ، وإعادة تمثيل الأحلام والطقوس ، يؤكد الفيلم وعد السينما كحامل للذكريات حتى التي لا يمكن استرجاعها.
Writer: Majid Al-Remaihi
Director: Majid Al-Remaihi
Producer: Basel Owies and Ali khechen
Country of Origin: Qatar
Runtime: 12 minutes
Production year : 2021
السيناريو : ماجد الرميحي
الإخراج : ماجد الرميحي
الإنتاج : باسل عويس وعلي خشن
البلد : قطر
المدة: 12 دقيقة
سنة الإنتاج : 2021
Majid Al-Remaihi is a filmmaker and film programmer from Doha, Qatar. His short film “And Then They Burn the Sea” premiered at Locarno 2021. He produced it under the mentorship of Academy Award-nominated director Rithy Panh and with the support of the Qatari Film Fund. Currently, he is developing his next short film. He is also part of the Film Programming team at the Doha Film Institute.
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Florian Elabdi
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“Ghosts of Moria” is a story from one location, the burnt-out Moria camp. It’s a universal story about how to survive in a post-apocalyptic universe, where human warmth and friendship are as precious as copper wiring—and as rare.
Michael Graversen
Director: Florian Elabdi, Michael Graversen
Producer: Michael Graversen
Country of Origin: Denmark
Runtime: 25 minutes
Year of production : 2021
الإخراج : فلوريان العبدي و مكايل غرافرسن
الإنتاج : مكايل غرافرسن
البلد : الدنمارك
المدة : 25 دقيقة
سنة الإنتاج : 2021
Florian Elabdi is a journalist and documentarist. He has reported from countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Scandinavian and international media including the Washington Post, The Guardian, BBC, The Daily Beast and others. He has also directed several video features about the war against ISIS and a documentary about minority activism during the Danish general elections.
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Michael Graversen is a non-fiction writer, activist and multi-award winning Danish documentary filmmaker, whose films have won awards and been selected for festivals such as IDFA and CPH:DOX. He graduated from the National Film and Television School in England and directs documentaries, often of existential or socially relevant character.
Mohamed Jebelhabibi
Synopsis
Moroccan men and women live in Germany. Born or came to continue their studies.
They tell us how they got their leadership positions in their chosen field.
Each and everyone has a different story.
production: ak studio
scenario: Mohamed Jebelhabibi
Runtime: 21 min
Country: Morocco
Stéphanie ROLAND
Synopsis
Podesta Island exists according to Google Earth.
Podesta Island does not exist according to Wikipedia.
Does it really exist?
Writer: Stéphanie ROLAND
Director: Stéphanie ROLAND
Producer:
Country of Origin: France
Runtime: 23 minutes 24 seconds
Stéphanie Roland is a micronesian / belgian visual artist and filmmaker, her work is regularly shown at international level. Her projects have been included in exhibitions from major institutions among these Louvre Museum, Benaki Museum, Botanique, Kampala International Art Biennale, Bozar and Wiels. Breda Photo, Belfast Photo festival, Manifesto, Encontros da Imagem, BIP Liège, MOPLA and Unseen are amongst the festivals dedicated to photography in which she took part.
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In 2017, her first film Deception Island premiered at the 57th Venice Biennale, followed by many international screenings among them at the Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin and at Bozar. She’s actually artist at Fresnoy – Studio National, where she finished her second short film Podesta Island, shortlisted for the Prix Studio Collector, and is preparing the next one, experimental documentary, A pole of Inaccessibility.
Safaa Bendhiba
Synopsis
Sraghna place in Casablanca, as an example of Moroccan society, focuses on socio-cultural phenomena through the game of Checkers
Writer: Safaa Bendhiba
Director: Safaa Bendhiba
Producer: Meriem Addou
Country of Origin: Morocco
Runtime: 13 minutes 12 seconds
PhD in Social Sciences at Hassan II University of Casablanca Morocco. Documentary filmmaker who is part of the «Archives Bouanani» collective for the restoration and digitization of the written and visual archive he left after his death. In her research, she focuses on the colonial archive and artistic methods of resistance. Especially on the collective memory of Morocco in the 60s and 70s through the Moroccan documentary film.
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Giulio Tonincelli
Synopsis
Giulio at the end of April 2013 visits the Turkish-Syrian border to document the work of an Italian NGO. In the field hospital of Kilis (Turkey) meets Zaher, a Syrian teacher who offers Giulio to join him and two rebels on a 24- hour trip to Aleppo.
The film, edited and finished 7 years after it was shot, introduces a layer of retrospection that allows Giulio to present a mature confession of what he experienced.
Writer: Giulio Tonincelli and Alessandro Belotti
Director: Giulio Tonincelli
Producer: Giulio Tonincelli and Alessandro Belotti and Laura Weber
Country of Origin: Italy
Runtime: 19 minutes 30 seconds
Giulio Tonincelli is an independent filmmaker and programmer at Orvieto Cinema Fest. He realizes projects with several NGOs traveling through the Middle East, India, Latin America and Africa, approaching and discovering the cinema of real. In 2018 he attends the Documentary Summer School at the Locarno Film Festival. His latest short documentary Happy Today has been selected in over 40 festivals including Oscar Qualifying such a ShortShorts in Japan, Odense in Denmark, Palm Springs and Rhode Island in United States.
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Producer: Giulio Tonincelli and Alessandro Belotti and Laura Weber
Guille Porcar and Raúl Lorite
Synopsis
Vicent Martí has cultivated the land in a traditional way for more than 40 years. He does not use machines or chemicals, but the animal plow and harvests by hand instead. His world seems destined to disappear.
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Director: Guille Porcar and Raúl Lorite
Producer: Guille Porcar
Country of Origin: Spain
Runtime: 23 minutes 33 seconds
GUILLE PORCAR:
Biography
He was born in Valencia in 1985, graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Master’s Degree in Teaching Secondary Education at Florida University. With the making of the documentary “Soc perquè som” (2019), together with Naniwa Films, he approached education as a tool and way of social transformation and empowerment. This documentary has participated in festivals in Spain, Colombia and Argentina. “The Skin On The Land” (2021) is his latest film work.
RAÚL LORITE:
He was born in Valencia in 1985. Graduated in Audiovisual Com. by the UPV in 2008. He made his first short film in 2006, for a workshop with Victor Erice. In 2012 he directed “Claudia through the glass”, a short film selected by the IVAC for its “Curts 2012” catalogue. In 2019 he co-directs his first feature film, the documentary “Soc perquè som” and directs the short film “Fuggiro Tanto Amore”, selected and awarded at more than 25 national and international festivals.
Muhannad Diab
Synopsis
The film Gates of Mecca tackles the story of the first female pioneer living in a rural area in Egypt that has changed misconceptions through her work of knocking doors and her ambition in providing help for the women in her village in Asswan governorate. This film portrays a unique Egyptian woman who has overcome many challenges, a woman who has engraved her name in the field of social work.
Muhannad Diab is an Egyptian director who directed many short and documentaries films. He cares about the developmental issues. He won many local and international awards. He is currently working as an advisor to the Minister of Social Solidarity for Visual Documentation in the Arab Republic of Egypt. He has a film library that exceeded 100 films over the past years.
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