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Les Bienheureux

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 2 April 2021

Director: Sophie Djama

Country: Francia, Belgio, Qatar | Year: 2017 | Lenght: 102′

MedFilm Festival 2017 // Amore & Psiche

Algiers, a few years after the end of the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in a restaurant. During the journey, they exchange their impressions of Algeria: Amal talks about the lost illusions, while Samir talks about the need to overcome them. Meanwhile, their son Fahim and his friends Feriel and Reda roam a hostile Algiers, ready to steal their youth.

SOFIA DJAMA

Born in Oran in 1979, Sofia Djama moved to Algiers to complete her studies and graduate in Literature. At the beginning of the 2000s, he began to write a collection of short stories with young Algerians as protagonists. Mollement, a samedi matin, the adaptation of one of these stories, receives two awards at the 2011 Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. These awards encourage her to pursue a career in the world of cinema. Les Bienheureux (2017), his first feature film, is selected in Venice in the Orizzonti section.

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Study day of the “Equal and different” internship Iso-Medfilm Festival 2020-21″

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 11 February 2021

The Department of Oriental Studies – La Sapienza and MEDFILM FESTIVAL present the Internship Study Day “Equal and different: Iso-MedFilm Festival 2020-2021”. During the meeting, the website of the “Voices and Images of Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean” project and the Medfilm Festival archive at the DISO Library will be presented.

The webinar will be held on the zoom platform, Monday 15 February 2021, from 2.00pm to 6.30pm Participation is open to all stakeholders Registration with a nominative request email at the address webinartirocinio@gmail.com

Program

Introduction: Franco D’Agostino, Director of the ISO Department; Ginella Vocca, President of MedFilm Festival-MFF; Laura Guazzone, Internship Manager.

h. 14.15-14.25 Presentation of the VOCIMED.IT WEB SITE of the Third Mission Iso project “Voices and images from dialogue intercultural in the Mediterranean ”, L. Guazzone, Iso Sapienza and V. Flora, MFF.

FIRST PART (moderated by Guazzone, directed by Flora)

h. 14.30-15.00 “Human Rights” Theme: Human Rights in Contemporary Islam. An open debate – Francesco Zappa, Iso Sapienza.

h. 15.00-15.10 Debate

h. 15.10-15.45 Theme “cultural dialogue”: The dialogue between cinema and contemporary Arab literature: the Egyptian microcosm – Ada Barbaro, Iso Sapienza.

h.15.45-15.55 Debate

h. 16.00- 16.30 MEDFILM FESTIVAL SHORT Debate

SECOND PART (moderated by Zappa, directed by Barbaro)

h. 16.30-17.00 “Political dialogue” theme: The Mediterranean that unites and divides: contemporary history of an idea – Laura Guazzone, Iso Sapienza.

h. 17.00-17.100 Debate

h. 17.10-17.40 Gender issue theme: Body, awareness and freedom. Paths in Mediterranean cinema – Veronica Flora, MFF

17.40-17.50 Debate

h. 17.50-18.30 What intercultural dialogue in the Mediterranean? Concluding remarks and debate

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Stage “Equal and different”, December 2016

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 20 December 2020
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Bal

Director: Semih Kaplanoğlu

Cast: Bora Altaş (Yusuf); Erdal Besikçioglu (the father Yakup); Tülin Özen (mother Zehra)

Country: Turkey | Year: 2010 | Duration: 104 ‘

Yusuf is a lonely child who lives with his parents in a remote area of a mountain forest. The parent raises bees and the child has great admiration for the one with whom he shares secrets. Yusuf, who can read fluently at home, is stuck at school and cannot get the red plaque that the teacher women as a reward for those who read well. The decrease in the presence of the parents’ appi necessitates trying to place the hives in more remote locations and at higher heights. One day the man will not return, and while his wife goes looking for him, the child will feel prompted to hope for his next reappearance from a sacred reading.

MedFilm Festival 2010 // Amore & Psiche

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Informe General II. The New Abduction of Europe

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 6 December 2020
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Director: Pere Portabella

Country: Spain | Year: 2015 | Duration: 126 ′

The second part of one of Pere Portabella’s historical works, “Informe general sobre unas cuestiones de interés para una proyección pública”, released in 1976 in conjunction with the beginning of the political transition process after Franco’s death. This second Informe comes in the context of a serious systemic crisis of a cultural, economic-financial, political and energy nature. And it is above all a testimony of the way in which civil society is emerging from the crisis with a new protagonism of citizen, which simply consists in the citizens’ rapprochement with politics.

Born in Figueres in 1927, Pere Portabella has maintained his political commitment with all the protest movements against the dictatorship of Francisco Franco since the 1960s. Elected senator in the first democratic elections after Franco’s death, he was also a member of the Parliament of Catalonia. At the head of Films 59, he has produced emblematic films of Spanish cinema such as Carlos Saura’s “I monelli” (1959), Marco Ferreri’s “La carrozzella” (1960) and Luis Buñuel’s Viridiana (1960). As a director, he has been active for over forty years, combining the legacy of avant-garde culture with a language of rupture. The only Spanish artist present at Documenta XI in Kassel in 2002, in 2008 he received an honorary degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. His works have been presented in prestigious international festivals and in museums such as MoMA, Center Pompidou, Reina Sofia Museum and Tate Modern.

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Le jardin d’essai

Director: Dania Reymond

Cast: Samir El Hakim, Sonia Amori, Louiza Nehar, Abdelkader Hamadaine, Yassine Hadj-Henni, Zohir Chabounia, Akram Djeghim, Redouane Boukachabia, Chahrazad Kracheni, Amel Hanifi, Djamel Aouane, Yanis Saadiza, Aya Hamdi, Hamdi Ahmed, Abdenour Bradai

Country: Algeria, France | Year: 2016 | Duration: 42 ′

In a tropical park in Algiers, Samir, a young director, helps his actors during rehearsals. His next film will tell the story of the youth of a besieged city. While at work, the film’s cast finds themselves confronted with the same questions as their characters.

Dania Reymond

Born in Algeria in 1982, Dania Reymond studies at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Marseille and continues her post-graduate studies at the National Higher School of Fine Arts in Lyon and at Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts. For his short film Jeanne (2012), he receives the StudioCollector award. The Essay Garden wins the Youth Jury Award at the 14th Brive Film Festival and has its Italian premiere at MedFilm.

MedFilm Festival 2016 // Amore & Psiche

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Masterclass with Merzak Allouache

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 1 December 2020
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Born in Algeria in 1944, he is a director and screenwriter who studied at the Institut National du Cinéma in Algiers and then at L’Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris. Since his debut film Omar Gatlato he has been directing films in both France and Algeria. His work has screened at numerous international festivals.

Filmography (selection)
1976 Omar Gatlato 1978 Moughamarat Batal 1983 L’Homme Qui Regardait les Fenêtres 1986 Un Amour à Paris 1993 Bab El Oued City 1995 Salut Cousin! 2000 L’autre Monde 2003 Chouchou 2005 Bab El Web 2009 Harragas 2010 Tata Bakhta; TV movie 2012 El-Taïb (The Repentant) 2013 Esstouh (The Rooftops) 2015 Madame Courage 2017 Tahqiq Fel Djenna (Investigating Paradise).

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