A Borrowed Village (Borderline) / Shirli Michalevicz
Israel
KFAR SHAUL was once the Palestinian village of DEIR YASSIN. In 1948, Jewish Militia forces entered the village and massacred over a hundred villagers. The village houses remained intact and the place was turned into a mental health "village". Within the borderline of this unique mental health center, Palestinian and Jewish mentally ill patients are treated side by side.
A son's desire to connect to his absent father through the audio tape letters his father sent home while working as a migrant worker in Saudi Arabia. This is a late cinematic portrait that relies on the goodwill of the director's mother who is asked to give her more discrete tapes and the village's photographer who is also asked to give his own collection. At the starting point of this film, both are reluctant to do so.
Traveling in an old vehicle full of dolls and moving from one Arab village to the other in Israel and Palestine, Abeer, the director, meets with Arab women who experienced sexual assaults. Through her special puppet show she persuades them to talk for the first time about their mishaps and their daily hardship in their society.
7 Days of the Mountain Bird / Daoud Aoulad Syad & Abdallah Tougouna
Morocco
Once a year, the members of the Gnawa tribe of Marrakech along with a she-camel for sacrifice, start their pilgrimage to the a remote mountain. It is a gathering of the brotherhood of the Gnawas where the sacred act of exorcism is being performed. "7 Days of the Mountain Bird" is a vivid and colorful ethnographic journey into belief and human fear while overcoming it in an overwhelming environment.
Making Happiness / Yousef Deek & Ahmad Kawarik
Palestine
Two young directors from Ramallah are traveling with a mobile cinema through the remote villages on the winding paths of the West Bank. Their desire is to bring the magic of films to people who never been to the cinema before. The protagonists of this film, the team behind the initiative, are hoping to have a personal and positive effect on the well being of the people living under constant threat. At the same time they are creating a reflexive documentary, an ode to the power of cinema.
Ten years after a short film that depicts Palestinian kids befor the violent Intifada , the director returns to his protagonists, now grown ups. Through this new encounter, the life of people under occupation and constant threat, as well as the changes in the Palestinian society will be investigated specially after these years of violence . It is also a reflexive film about the potential of documentary filmmaking as a stark tool in dealing with the representation of memory, whilst telling a gripping story of hope and survival.
The Scene & the Emptiness / Ryad Shaheen & Sahera Dirbas
Palestine
The story of a Palestinian family living in a congested refugee camp in the Hamas governed Gaza Strip. The two eldest sons' diseases add more hardship to the daily struggle against poverty, illness, suppression and occupation. Will there be any hope to them and to the rest of the family?
Tulay German: The Black Box of the Plane which Never Crashed / Didem Pekun
Turkey
The film is a personal take on the life and love story of one of Turkey's greatest singers - Tulay German and the great thinker and no less musician, Erdem Buri. Filmmaker Didem Pekun sets on a journey to uncover a life story through German's autobiographical book and by opening her "blackbox", on the one hand she will be reveiling German's story starting from 1960's Turkey covering issues like immigration to France (where German still lives), politics and the start of Turkish Popular Music, on the other hand Pekun will also look for more universal traits about being a woman that encompasses date and age.
Zain's Wedding / Ramzi Bejaoui, Tarek Ibrahim & Khaled Mechkene
Tunisia
Zain, a young black Tunisian who works in the fashionable tourist resort of Djerbba is coming home to get married. Home is a remote village in the South of Tunisia where his black ancestors settled as a slave community – Abid Ghbonton - hundreds of years ago with a special trait: performing and singing their praises to their white masters at their weddings. His family expects that in accordance to tradition, a troupe of Ghbonton musicians will perform at his wedding. Zain is very reluctant to follow a tradition that he feels keeps his people degraded. But if he does not, he will not only confront his family and villagers, but also help catalyze the disappearance of a unique culture.
Mrs. Fenan – A Woman with a Camera / Karima Zoubir & Hisham Brini
Morocco
The film tells the story of three unprofessional women who decided to take cameras to their hands and begin to film single-gender festivities and parties. Through their new vocation we will have a close look at female celebrations, the women who document them and the changing roles of women in our time in the Moroccan society.
Pop Goes Islam (4 Shabab) / Ismail El Mokadem & Mohammad Shawky
Egypt
In the past Ahmed Abu Haiba was an executive producer at a leading Arab entertainment channel. But a tragic plane crash fifteen years ago awakened his religious conviction, and he became dedicated to spreading Islam through the media. This 52-minute documentary will follow the evolution of his newest project 4 Shabab; the word’s first ever-Islamic music channel. We will accompany Abu Haiba on his quest to create a pop industry based on traditional values and test his vision for the future of Islamic TV.
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