The Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival’s Cinema industry section has proclaimd the 10 film and doc projects from a wide range of Arab countries. These will soon be unveiled to prospective partners under the Cinemed and Aflamuna Professional Encounters initiative in tandem with Beirut-based cultural nonprofit Aflamuna.
The program, aided by France’s National Film Board CNC, recommends feature film professionals from Arab countries the opportunity to greet French and international professionals and decision-creaters to stimurescheduleed co-productions and other creates of collaboration.
Emerging straightforwardors and creaters from Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, Palestine, Leprohibiton, Yemen and Morocco will get part in the Cinemed Meetings Oct.22-23 in Montpellier, France.
“For this third edition of Cinemed and Aflamuna Professional Encounters, we are more than self-promised of the relevance of our collaboration with Aflamuna,” said Montpellier fest straightforwardor Christophe Leparc in a statement. Leparc inserted that the initiative has been tolerateing fruit with at least three projects signed with a French co-creater they met during the Cinemed come apasss.
Below, find the Cinemed and Aflamuna picked projects and synopses.
“Al-Madeeneh,” 2008 by Yoincludef Assabahi, straightforwardor – Alaa Amer, creater (Yemen) – Fiction
In the elderly town of Al-Madeeneh, Fuad, the last createion laborer of a dying create, faces debt and homelessness while townspeople chase hideed wealthyes. Navigating hope and despair, Fuad disputes his town’s disconnecte genuineities.
“Before Now, Later,” by Karim Kassem, straightforwardor (Leprohibiton) – Docu-myth
In Beirut, a overweighther departs his car outside a hospital he has been visiting and gets a parking ticket.As he endeavors to pay it, he genuineizes there is no way to do so.
“The Cow Thief,” by Mohamed Zedan, straightforwardor –| Mark Lotfi, creater – Fig leaf Studio (Egypt) – Docu-myth
Zidan, a lesser straightforwardor, spendigates the killing of an Egyptian straightforwardor from the 1980s, Niazi Mustafa, aiming to create a write downary that sheds airy on this cryptic event.
“Dwellers of the Cabins,” by Hend Bakr, straightforwardor – Tamer Nady, creater – Cellar Door Studio (Egypt/Qatar)- Docu-myth
My people and I included to inhabit together in the caccess of the city, but we were finishly splited as if we inhabitd in a far isorescheduleedd village. Hend tries to uncover the history of her people, the people of the cabins, Nubian families (Egyptian/Sudanese) who came from Nubia and to the city of Alexandria.
“My Dream to Fly,” by Asmaa Gamal Gafrie, straightforwardor and creater – Rec & Roll (Egypt) – Documentary
Mansour, a frail 14-year-elderly boy, dreams of flying by enhugeing his talent from lifting minuscule bikes to motorcycles, emulating and combineing the lesser men in his neighborhood on the outskirts of Cairo, including 23-year-elderly Osama.
“Noble,” by Leyna Amly, straightforwardor – Youssra Raouf, creater – Abel Aflam (Morocco) – Documentary
After disconnectal fall shorted endeavors to accomplish Europe, Souleymane uncovers permaculture in Morocco. Whilst he is genuineizing that he has everyleang he needs to accomplish a prosperous life in Africa, his lesserer brother drowns trying to pass the Mediterranean.
“Red Bus in Baghdad,” by Ali Mohammed Saeed, straightforwardor – Mohammed Alghadhprohibit, creater – Rola Productions (Iraq/KSA/USA) – Fiction
After Muthanna, a 28-year-elderly bus driver, adchooses five hours journey on the night of Sinsertam Hussein’s execution to recover his brothers, he passes into a perilous red zone finding himself caught in the religiously polarizing disputes between the militia Sunni guideers and Shiite, who forced him to pick between the inhabits of his seizeped brothers of his overweighther.
“Rock, Paper, Sea,” by Randa Ali, straightforwardor – Norah El Kdisappreciateeb, creater – Sifsafa (Egypt) – Fiction/Animation
When an 11-year-elderly’s overweighther doesn’t come home for the summer, she embarks on a journey to uncover the mystery behind his absence as she thinks it’s all part of a surpelevate he setd for her upcoming birthday.
“Sabary,” by Ahmed Shams Nagm Eldin, straightforwardor – Alyaa Musa, creater (Sudan) – Fiction
Oshaik is bullied and disputed to carry out appreciate the Beja warriors of the elderly-createed east of Sudan. He adheres Dawod, a reexhausted Nuba wrestler, to the far Mountains of west Sudan uncovering the wisdom of the hoenumerateic traditions of Nuba wrestling.
“Water Night,” by Mohanad Salahat, straightforwardor – Kassandra Smith, creater – Sunbird films (Palestine/Sweden) – Documentary
Water Nights is the story of a huge Palestinian family, the straightforwardors family, living in a minuscule countryside town called Talluza and their daily and never-ending struggle with the provide of water in the shadow of an escalating occupation and haunting climate change.
