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Page 1: 9th Cairo International Women's Film Festival

9th Cairo International Women's Film Festival

27 February - 3 March 2016

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Organised by

Supported by

In collaboration with

Artistic Creativity CentreInside Cairo Opera HouseZamalek, Cairo

Falaki TheatreEl-Falaki St. (AUC campus) Downtown, Cairo

Goethe-Institute Cairo5, El-Bustan St,Downtown, Cairo

cairowomenfilmfest.com

مركز االبداع الفنيبدار االوبرا

الزمالك، القاهرة

مرسح الفليكشارع الفليك )الجامعة االمريكية بالقاهرة(

وسط البلد، القاهرة

معهد جوتة5، شارع البستان

وسط البلد، القاهرة

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Organised by

Supported by

In collaboration with

Artistic Creativity CentreInside Cairo Opera HouseZamalek, Cairo

Falaki TheatreEl-Falaki St. (AUC campus) Downtown, Cairo

Goethe-Institute Cairo5, El-Bustan St,Downtown, Cairo

cairowomenfilmfest.com

مركز االبداع الفنيبدار االوبرا

الزمالك، القاهرة

مرسح الفليكشارع الفليك )الجامعة االمريكية بالقاهرة(

وسط البلد، القاهرة

معهد جوتة5، شارع البستان

وسط البلد، القاهرة

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Organised by

Supported by

In collaboration with

Artistic Creativity CentreInside Cairo Opera HouseZamalek, Cairo

Falaki TheatreEl-Falaki St. (AUC campus) Downtown, Cairo

Goethe-Institute Cairo5, El-Bustan St,Downtown, Cairo

cairowomenfilmfest.com

مركز االبداع الفنيبدار االوبرا

الزمالك، القاهرة

مرسح الفليكشارع الفليك )الجامعة االمريكية بالقاهرة(

وسط البلد، القاهرة

معهد جوتة5، شارع البستان

وسط البلد، القاهرة

2

Organised by

Supported by

In collaboration with

Artistic Creativity CentreInside Cairo Opera HouseZamalek, Cairo

Falaki TheatreEl-Falaki St. (AUC campus) Downtown, Cairo

Goethe-Institute Cairo5, El-Bustan St,Downtown, Cairo

cairowomenfilmfest.com

مركز االبداع الفنيبدار االوبرا

الزمالك، القاهرة

مرسح الفليكشارع الفليك )الجامعة االمريكية بالقاهرة(

وسط البلد، القاهرة

معهد جوتة5، شارع البستان

وسط البلد، القاهرة

2

Organised by

Supported by

In collaboration with

Artistic Creativity CentreInside Cairo Opera HouseZamalek, Cairo

Falaki TheatreEl-Falaki St. (AUC campus) Downtown, Cairo

Goethe-Institute Cairo5, El-Bustan St,Downtown, Cairo

cairowomenfilmfest.com

مركز االبداع الفنيبدار االوبرا

الزمالك، القاهرة

مرسح الفليكشارع الفليك )الجامعة االمريكية بالقاهرة(

وسط البلد، القاهرة

معهد جوتة5، شارع البستان

وسط البلد، القاهرة

2

Organised by

Supported by

In collaboration with

Artistic Creativity CentreInside Cairo Opera HouseZamalek, Cairo

Falaki TheatreEl-Falaki St. (AUC campus) Downtown, Cairo

Goethe-Institute Cairo5, El-Bustan St,Downtown, Cairo

cairowomenfilmfest.com

مركز االبداع الفنيبدار االوبرا

الزمالك، القاهرة

مرسح الفليكشارع الفليك )الجامعة االمريكية بالقاهرة(

وسط البلد، القاهرة

معهد جوتة5، شارع البستان

وسط البلد، القاهرة

2

Organised by

Supported by

In collaboration with

Artistic Creativity CentreInside Cairo Opera HouseZamalek, Cairo

Falaki TheatreEl-Falaki St. (AUC campus) Downtown, Cairo

Goethe-Institute Cairo5, El-Bustan St,Downtown, Cairo

cairowomenfilmfest.com

مركز االبداع الفنيبدار االوبرا

الزمالك، القاهرة

مرسح الفليكشارع الفليك )الجامعة االمريكية بالقاهرة(

وسط البلد، القاهرة

معهد جوتة5، شارع البستان

وسط البلد، القاهرة

2

Organised by

Supported by

In collaboration with

Artistic Creativity CentreInside Cairo Opera HouseZamalek, Cairo

Falaki TheatreEl-Falaki St. (AUC campus) Downtown, Cairo

Goethe-Institute Cairo5, El-Bustan St,Downtown, Cairo

cairowomenfilmfest.com

مركز االبداع الفنيبدار االوبرا

الزمالك، القاهرة

مرسح الفليكشارع الفليك )الجامعة االمريكية بالقاهرة(

وسط البلد، القاهرة

معهد جوتة5، شارع البستان

وسط البلد، القاهرة

2

Organised by

Supported by

In collaboration with

Artistic Creativity CentreInside Cairo Opera HouseZamalek, Cairo

Falaki TheatreEl-Falaki St. (AUC campus) Downtown, Cairo

Goethe-Institute Cairo5, El-Bustan St,Downtown, Cairo

cairowomenfilmfest.com

مركز االبداع الفنيبدار االوبرا

الزمالك، القاهرة

مرسح الفليكشارع الفليك )الجامعة االمريكية بالقاهرة(

وسط البلد، القاهرة

معهد جوتة5، شارع البستان

وسط البلد، القاهرة

2

Organised by

Supported by

In collaboration with

Artistic Creativity CentreInside Cairo Opera HouseZamalek, Cairo

Falaki TheatreEl-Falaki St. (AUC campus) Downtown, Cairo

Goethe-Institute Cairo5, El-Bustan St,Downtown, Cairo

cairowomenfilmfest.com

مركز االبداع الفنيبدار االوبرا

الزمالك، القاهرة

مرسح الفليكشارع الفليك )الجامعة االمريكية بالقاهرة(

وسط البلد، القاهرة

معهد جوتة5، شارع البستان

وسط البلد، القاهرة

2

Organised by

Supported by

In collaboration with

Artistic Creativity CentreInside Cairo Opera HouseZamalek, Cairo

Falaki TheatreEl-Falaki St. (AUC campus) Downtown, Cairo

Goethe-Institute Cairo5, El-Bustan St,Downtown, Cairo

cairowomenfilmfest.com

مركز االبداع الفنيبدار االوبرا

الزمالك، القاهرة

مرسح الفليكشارع الفليك )الجامعة االمريكية بالقاهرة(

وسط البلد، القاهرة

معهد جوتة5، شارع البستان

وسط البلد، القاهرة

2

Organised by

Supported by

In collaboration with

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Artistic Creativity CentreInside Cairo Opera HouseZamalek, Cairo

Falaki TheatreEl-Falaki St. (AUC campus)Downtown, Cairo

Goethe-Institute Cairo5, El-Bustan St,Downtown, Cairo

cairowomenfilmfest.com

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Contents

Introduction

International Panorama

Caravan of Arab Iberoamerican Films

Spanish Short Films

Dance and Cinema

Tribute to a Cineaste: Pirjo Honkasalo

Country in Focus: Denmark

Guest Festival: Dortmund - Cologne International Womne's Film Festival

Homage to Nabeeha Lotfi

Side Events

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Index

Still the Water

Until I Lose My Breath

Nena

Whisper from a Birch

My Little Vietnam

Frailer

In The Sky

Dinola

Ventoux

Wild Women

Momentum

Some of Us

Fatima

Speed Sisters

Tea Time

In This Land Lay Graves Mine

Seeing the Unseen

Coffee for All Nations

The Future is Ours

Trip Along Exodus

Haunted

Suspended Time

Strong Will

A Time to Rest

Me, the President

Christmas Speech

Village

Stella

Marceline Blurr

The Right Place

One Million Steps

Horizons

Czech Swan

The Need to Dance

250 Grammes: A Radioactive Testament

Flame Top

Fire Eater

Ito - A Diary of an Urban Priest

The 3 Rooms of Melancholia

Concrete Night

Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars

In Your Hands

In Light of the Revolution

Creation

Front View of My Father

Malek Means Angel

The Visitor

Family Business

Because Roots Do not Die

Master Class with Pirjo Honkasalo

Master Class with Annette K. Olesen

One Minute Workshop Film

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Festival Team

Director of the FestivalAmal Ramsis

Festival CoordinatorRuth Jurado

Media and Public RelationsReham Ramzy

Translation and SubtitlesKhaled YoussefShadi FaaridSherif MashakBárbara Azaola

Poster DesignerDoaa Al Adl

Language RevisionHazel Haddon

InterpretingRanda Ali

DocumentationIrene BartoloméElizabeth Oliver

Social Media ManagementHala Ahmed

Guest CoordinationRuth Jurado

Catalogue DesignerVolcan Olmez

Technical SupportRamez Sadek

Typesetting and PrintLUCA Advertising

Websitewww.cairowomenfilmfest.com

[email protected]

Special ThanksCarlos VázquezAnja PutMarja PallassaloRasmus SteenJohanna KellerAndré NausLuca BertoliShaymaa GabrMaya SatoMaría VenegasGhada SherbiniArab LotfiMalek KhouriCristina AlbaGreta FrankenfeldLeire PascualSilke JohannaWilliam SidhomYoussef RamezDorte ZaaloukNady Abd ElsayedSami CretaRasha ShafikKirolus NaguibCristin EmilNahed FawziShadi MashakMarta DuránHelge SchwacheBasel RamsisSalma ShukrallahMohamed WakedMaha LotfiNora Abu SamraNecati SonmezHeba RifaatMiriam OrtzThe participants of the One Minute Workshops

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Introduction

Just a few days before International Women’s Day, which it celebrates, comes the ninth Cairo International Women's Film Festival.

For months and months, our team has been working to bring to the audience a fine se-lection of Arabic and international films made by women from all around the world.

CIWFF is an annual film festival where attendance is absolutely free of charge for everyone, and all films are screened with Arabic and English subtitles for greater in-clusivity; moreover, the Winning Film is chosen by the audience to be given the one and only award. Every year, the festival is held in Cairo. It also roams other Arab and international cities such as Berlin (Germany), Bilbao and Granada (Spain), Ljubljana (Slovenia), La Paz (Bolivia), Lima (Peru), Buenos Aires (Argentina), San Salvador (El Sal-vador), Managua (Nicaragua), Oaxaca and Mexico City (Mexico), San José (Costa Rica), Cartagena de Indias (Columbia), Asunción (Paraguay), Havana (Cuba), Rabat and Tangiers (Morocco), Damascus (Syria), Amman (Jordan) and Beirut (Lebanon). In its eighth edition, it was held in the Egyptian cities of Assiut, Minya and Alexandria.

Over the past years, our audience has warmed our hearts with their high turnout, always crowning our efforts with success, awarding the Audience Award to the most innovative, risky and visually experimental of films and proving wrong the claim made by those who flood the markets with commercial films – "this is what the audience wants" – a claim we find quite presumptuous and insulting to the Egyptian public. Year after year, interest in CIWFF increases, leading to more expansion and further improvements.

This year, we bring you yet another edition, taking more audacious stances with a wider selection, a larger number of guest filmmakers, more Q&A sessions, discussions and master classes – and complete trust that our audience is ready to go further and explore new cinema, new approaches, new subjects, new depths and new adven-tures.

Amal RamsisFestival Founder and Director

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International Panorama

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Still the WaterFutatsume no Mado

Japan/France, 2014, 119’

Director:Naomi Kawase

Language:Japanese

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:COMME DES CINEMAS

Contact:[email protected]

Falaki Theatre,Saturday 27 February, 7 pm

Goethe Institute, Tuesday 1 March, 5 pm

On the subtropical Japanese island of Amami-Oshima, tradi-tions about nature remain eternal. During a night of traditional dances under a full moon, 16-year-old Kaito discovers a dead body floating in the sea. His girlfriend Kyoko will attempt to help him understand this mysterious discovery.

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Until I Lose My BreathNefesim Kesilene Kakar

Turkey/Germany, 2015, 94’

Director:Emine Emel Balci Tuncel

Language:Turkish

Subtitless:Arabic, English

Production:PROLOG FILM

Contact:[email protected]

Serap is a quiet but hot-headed adolescent who is working long hours as a runner in a cramped clothing workshop. Fed up with her abusive brother-in-law and detached sister, the only thing that keeps Serap going is the hope of moving into an apartment with her father, who is a long-distance truck driver. Since her father is quite indifferent to Serap’s wishes, however, she decides to take matters in her own hands.

Goethe Institute, Sunday 28 February, 9 pm

Falaki Theatre, Thursday 3 March, 5 pm

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Nena

Netherlands/Germany, 2014, 90’

Director:Saskia Diesing

Language:German, Dutch

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:KeyFilm

Contact:[email protected]

The film tells the story of 16-year-old Nena, who is confronted with the suicide attempt of her disabled father. At the same time, she falls head-over-heels in love for the first time in her life, with Carlo, whose father has just outed himself. Away from the prying eyes of the adults - who struggle with failed marriages, blossoming love and insufferable physical decline - they push the boundaries of their friendship, love and sexual-ity. But while discovering her own lust for life, Nena realises that her father’s existence is becoming more and more unbear-able.

Falaki Theatre, Sunday 28 February, 9 pm

Goethe Institute, Wednesday 2 March, 9 pm

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Whisper from a BirchShepot Berezy

Russia/Colombia, 2015, 15’

Director:Doiana Montenegro García

Language:Russian

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:VGIK Russian State University of Cinematography (Russia), Cinema Co. (Colombia)

Contact:[email protected]

One picture. That’s the only thing the filmmaker brought with her, along with her luggage, on a trip to Russia. She took the picture of her 83-year-old grandmother, Bertha, taken on Mother’s Day. She was smiling without being aware of the camera. She doesn’t even know where Russia is on the map, but being far from Colombia, the filmmaker writes her a letter from the other side of the world.

Falaki Theatre, Saturday 27 February, 9 pm

Artistic Creativity Centre, Tuesday 1 March, 7 pm

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My Little VietnamVietnam-sur-Lot

France, 2014, 63’

Director:Nadege Lobato de Faria

Language:French

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:La Chambre Rouge

Contact:[email protected]

CAFI in the south of France; a refugee camp for repatriated French people from Indochina. The filmmaker’s Eurasian fam-ily arrived here in 1956, after the French defeat in Indochina. This place may be destroyed, although 150 people still live there. The filmmaker returns to this place of memory, in order to recover her Asian culture. She realises that some teenagers live here without knowing their history. Their elders don’t want to relate bad memories to them. Step by step, she seeks to understand Eurasian history and confront herself with her own story, with one question: what will happen to her ancestor’s culture after the destruction of this place? What will she pass on to her children?

Artistic Creativity Centre, Saturday 27 February, 9 pm

Artistic Creativity Centre, Tuesday 1 March, 5 pm

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FrailerBrozer

Netherlands, 2014, 80’

Director:Mijke de Jong

Language:Dutch

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:PRPL

Contact:[email protected]

When her lung cancer is diagnosed as terminal, Muis gath-ers her dearest friends, Ted, Carlos and Lian. Together the women come up with strategies to make the best of the time Muis has left: they garden and dance, share food, drinks and prescription marijuana. But the differences between their four personalities surface when they try to prepare for the coming irrevocable loss. With great humour and sincerity, the filmmak-er draws an intimate portrait and captures the way we face death, in a unique and unforgettable way.

Falaki Theatre, Wednesday 2 March, 7 pm

Goethe Institute, Thursday 3 March, 9 pm

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In The SkyLi Ezmani

Turkey, 2014, 7’

Director:Ozlam Goler

Language:Kurdish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:municipality Aram Tigran

Contact:[email protected]

Robin searches, searches with smoke, Robin searches, search-es with birds, Robin searches, searches with fear, searches with hope. He made a kite with Adar. Searches and searches. In the blue sky with fear, with hope. With one letter, a thou-sand looks, Robin searches for his father who was assassinated when he was in his mother’s womb.

Goethe Institute, Sunday 28 February, 9 pm

Falaki Theatre, Thursday 3 March, 5 pm

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Dinola

Georgia, 2014, 15’

Director:Mariam Khatchvani

Language:Georgia

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Cine House

Contact:[email protected]

Under the ruthless law of a small village in Georgia, a young widow has to marry the first man who proposes to her and, as a result, leave her daughter. The winter aura of mountain space intensifies little Dinola’s feeling of helplessness.

Artistic Creativity Centre, Saturday 27 February, 9 pm

Artistic Creativity Centre, Tuesday 1 March, 5 pm

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Ventoux

Netherlands, 2015, 104’

Director:Nicole Van Kilsdonk

Language:Dutch

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:KeyFilm

Contact:[email protected]

Four men, all old friends, decide to climb Mount Ventoux. On the way to the top, they look for answers to questions from past and present, and they do what men do so well: alternate between heavy seriousness and trivial lightness.

Falaki Theatre, Tuesday 1 March, 7 pm

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Wild WomenGentle Beasts

Switzerland, 2016, 96’

Director:Anka Schmid

Language:Arabic, German, French, Russian

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:RECK Filmproduktion

Contact:[email protected]

Artistic Creativity Centre, Sunday 28 February, 7 pm

Animal-tamers from various continents shine in the spotlight and struggle for their existence behind the scenes. Between toiling and smiling, the female circus artists disclose their pas-sion for their “wild” animals and extraordinary profession: a daily life full of dedication and discipline in the midst of mortal danger.

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Momentum

Finland, 2015, 16’

Director:Anna Antsalo

Language:Finnish, French

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Tuffi Films Ltd.

Contact:[email protected]

In Finland, a small child is waiting for his time to begin. His heart is damaged and he needs major heart surgery. It is a fight against time. The boy’s parents are wandering the cor-ridors of the hospital. The heart is stopped during the surgery operation. In Le Locle, a village in Switzerland that acts as the heart of the watch industry, watches are repaired. The narrow streets of the village carry vital parts to watches and nowa-days also parts for human bodies, for example pacemakers. The village is like a big factory line or a time-twisting machine. There, pieces are refined and workers’ hands turn time on and off.

Artistic Creativity Centre, Sunday 28 February, 5 pm

Falaki Theatre, Monday 29 February, 7 pm

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Some of UsNeko od nas

Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2014, 8’

Director:Anja Kavic

Language:Bosnian

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Academy of art Banja Luka

Contact:[email protected]

Falaki Theatre, Tuesday 1 March, 7 pm

When a relationship between two sisters turns into resentment accumulated over the years of growing up together, it must come to breaking point. The decisive confrontation is painful and reveals many secrets, and the outcome can be tragic. The whole story is set among wagons at a railway station. This is a story about anger, attention and a gun.

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Fatima

Germany/France, 2015, 18’

Director:Nina Khada

Language:French

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:depoetica

Contact:[email protected]

Fatima is a collection of voices and icons. The filmmaker’s voice tells the story of her grandmother’s exile from Algeria to France. The film scrolls in black and white; she tells of her grandmother’s fights for her country, for her children. Back to the present: what is her grandmother’s heritage?

Falaki Theatre, Saturday 27 February, 5 pm

Artistic Creativity Centre, Monday 29 February, 7 pm

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Caravan of Arab-Iberoamerican Films

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Speed Sisters

Palestine/USA, 2016, 80’

Director:Amber Fares

Language:Arabic, English

Subtitles:English

Production:SOC DOCS

Contact:[email protected]

The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-domi-nated Palestinian street car-racing scene.Weaving together their lives on and off the track, Speed Sisters takes the audience on a surprising journey into the drive to go further and faster than anyone thought possible.

Artistic Creativity Centre, Sunday 28 February, 5 pm

Falaki Theatre, Monday 29 February, 7 pm

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Tea TimeLA ONCE

Chile, 2014, 70’

Director:Maite Alberdi

Language:Spanish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Micromundo Producciones

Contact:[email protected]

Artistic Creativity Centre, Wednesday 2 March, 9 pm

Five elderly women have gathered for tea once a month re-ligiously for the past sixty years. At these meetings, the friends argue and then make up; they evoke a common past and try hard to show that they are still strong, forgetting for a mo-ment their illnesses. Gathered around the table, they spend their time interpreting current affairs and fashion, and despite not understanding some trends, they comment on them with absolute authority, trying to explain them to one another.

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In This Land Lay Graves of Mineلى قبور في هذه االرض

Lebanon/France/ Qatar/UAE, 2014, 110’

Director:Reine Mitri

Language:Arabic

Subtitles:English

Production:DJINN House Productions

Contact:[email protected]

Goethe Institute, Wednesday 2 March, 5 pm

Selling her land in her “Christian” village to a Muslim took the filmmaker on a journey into present-day territorial and demographic fears between Lebanon’s communities. These fears perpetuate past traumas generated by massacres and forced displacements, which were perpetrated on a sectarian basis during the civil war. Since the war ended in 1990, land transactions are completing what the war has not achieved: dismantling the country into sectarian enclaves. By intimately interweaving her own memory with the narratives of displacements of the protagonists and the country’s memory, the film reveals a dark present where an exploding landscape reflects communities’ reciprocal fears, hatred and intoler-ance, as the Middle East region as a whole witnesses new forced displacements of minorities.

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Seeing the Unseen¿Qué ves? (Ecos de lo invisible)

Argentina, 2014, 96’

Director:Sofia Vaccaro

Language:Spanish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:AlertaCINE

Contact:[email protected]

Artistic Creativity Centre, Monday 29 February, 9 pm

Falaki Theatre, Tuesday 1 March, 9 pm

How do you sense the world with hearing, touch, smell, taste, but not sight? How can you feel and know the space around you? And what if you do see it? The film is a reflection on im-age and imagination, seeing and blindness, memory and the ear, reality and fiction. The documentary takes the audience on an experimental path, mixing digital and celluloid as it goes deeper into the richness of sound. Through its charac-ters, the film explores several ways of creating and sensing the world.

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Coffee for All Nationsقهوة لكل األمم

Palestine/Sweden, 2015, 52’

Director:Wafa’ Jamil

Language:Arabic

Subtitles:English

Production:Multi Media Production Company, (AB) HolmKard Film, Enjaaz, a Dubai Film Market Initiative

Contact:[email protected]

Coffee For All Nations follows Palestinian Abed, who the Israeli army tried to force him out of his home in Al-Walaja village near Bethlehem in 1948. Abed persisted, staying in his village and living in a cave that he discovered on his land until the end of his life. While in his cave, which was in a spot that could be reached by Palestinians, Israelis and foreigners, he decided to open up a coffee shop. Through his coffee shop, Abed turned his own tragedy into a transformative project that allowed him to share his one true possession and a stunning view. A story of hope and resilience, Coffee for All Nations provides a wonderfully fresh backdrop to the injustices caused by war and occupation.

Falaki Theatre, Sunday 28 February, 5 pm

Goethe Institute, Thursday 3 March, 7 pm

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The Future Is OursEl Futuro es Nuestro

Argentina, 2014, 110’

Director:Virna Molina, Ernesto Ardito

Language:Spanish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Virna, Ernesto

Contact:[email protected]

The film tells the story of a group of teenagers who were kidnapped and disappeared by the Argentinean dictator-ship in 1976. They were students of the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, the oldest and most prestigious high school in the country. One hundred and eight pupils of the school were killed by the military government. The group of young people whose story the film traces were between 15 and 19 years old. At the beginning of the seventies, they created the biggest, most important political group that gathered young people to fight for the Socialist Revolution. They lived beautiful days of friendship and love which were interrupted by violence and death, brought about by the military government.

Falaki Theatre, Monday 29 February, 5 pm

Artistic Creativity Centre, Thursday 3 March, 7 pm

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Trip Along Exodus

Palestine/Syria/Lebanon, 2015, 120´

Director:Hind Shoufani

Language:Arabic, English

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:

Contact:[email protected]

Artistic Creativity Centre, Tuesday 1 March, 9 pm

Trip Along Exodus explores the last 70 years of Palestinian politics as seen through the prism of the life of the filmmaker’s father, Dr. Elias Shoufani, a leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and an academic and leftist intellectual who was one of the leaders of the opposition to Arafat within Fa-tah for 20 years. Born in Ma’liya in the Galilee and educated at the Hebrew University and Princeton, the multilingual and erudite Dr. Shoufani was also the Arab world’s leading analyst of Israeli affairs for more than a generation. His opposition to policies meant to lead towards a two-state solution was grounded in his political clarity and prescience about the di-rection in which Israel was headed and his understanding that this would never, in fact, be allowed to be realised.

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HauntedMaskoon

Syria, 2014, 112’

Director:Liwaa Yazji

Language:Arabic

Subtitles:English

Production:Liwaa Yazji

Contact:[email protected]

Goethe Institute, Saturday 27 February, 5 pm

In feature documentary Haunted, the filmmaker explores what it means to flee a war. She meets both friends and people previously unknown to her at their homes; houses where they live now or where they used to live; spaces that have turned into a sought-after commodity. When does one leave? What does one take? What aspects of life does the departure irretrievably end? How long can one sit tight? What do people call their departure? Are they refugees? Do they leave? Do they see themselves as displaced people? Do they just move on? What does home mean? Which rights do they lose? From what losses can they protect themselves? What can they control? By means of her collected stories, the film-maker traces the endless refugee movements in the region over the last 70 years.

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Suspended TimeTiempo Suspendido

Mexico, 2015, 64’

Director:Natalia Bruschtein

Language:Spanish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C

Contact:[email protected]

Falaki TheatreSaturday 27 February, 9 pm

Artistic Creativity Centre, Tuesday 1 March, 7 pm

Time Suspended is a documentary about memory; the memory of a woman who has fought tirelessly against histori-cal amnesia and in favour of justice for the crimes commit-ted by the state in Argentina. Today this woman has lost her memory, liberating her from the pain; she bids farewell to this life without betraying the family she once lost.

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Strong Willالهمه القويه

Lebanon, 2015, 17´

Director:Nathalie Rbeiz

Language:Arabic

Subtitles:English

Production:

Contact:[email protected]

Falaki TheatreSunday 28 February, 7 pm

Artistic Creativity Centre, Wednesday 2 March, 9 pm

Strong Will looks at the story of Soha Beshara, a Lebanese woman who in 1988 tried to assassinate General Antoine Lahad of the South Lebanon Army. She was unsuccessful and was jailed for ten years in the notorious Khiam prison in southern Lebanon. Her mother, Najat Eid, who was married to former communist activist Fawaz Beshara, was forced to carry her daughter’s act for the rest of her life, and to work hard to keep her daughter alive and to secure her release from prison.

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A Time to Restهدنه

Lebanon/ France, 2015, 66’

Director:Myriam EI Hajj

Language:Arabic

Subtitles:English

Production:Abbout Productions, Inthemood

Contact:[email protected]

Artistic Creativity Centre, Monday 29 February, 5 pm

In Beirut, 2013, the filmmaker’s uncle Riad and his friends, all veterans of the Christian militias in Lebanon, still feel nostalgia for the war that impassioned their youth. Between shared memories in her uncle’s hunting shop and their hunting trips from which they often return empty-handed, the filmmaker questions them; she confronts them. At a time when Lebanon continues to live through torments, in Riad’s store a rupture between generations is looming.

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Spanish Short Films

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Me, the PresidentYo, Presidenta

Spain, 2015, 18’

Director:Arantxa Echevarría

Language:Spanish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Tvtec servicios audiovisuales

Contact:[email protected]

Artistic Creativity Centre, Wednesday 2 March, 7 pm

The chaos of the last elections in the country, where the ‘none of the above’ vote secured a large majority, alarms Europe. Through a psychological study, it is shown that the most gifted to lead the nation is someone who has the most friends on Facebook. And this happens to be the film’s protagonist, Ana. And with that, Ana’s life takes a 180-degree turn.

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The Christmas SpeechEl Discurso De Navidad

Spain, 2015, 25’

Director:Cristina Bodelón, Ignacio de Vicente

Language:Spanish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Lasoga Films

Contact:[email protected]

Artistic Creativity Centre, Wednesday 2 March, 7 pm

Lucía goes home for Christmas. When she sees her boyfriend and friends, she finds herself confronted with the reasons for which she left her hometown, and is brought face-to-face with her demons.

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VillagePueblo

Spain, 2015, 10’

Director:Maria Pardo

Language:Spanish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:ECAM

Contact:[email protected]

Luis returns to his village to face the reality that he has been trying to avoid; a journey that can never be forgotten.

Artistic Creativity Centre, Wednesday 2 March, 7 pm

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Stella

Spain, 2015, 20’

Director:Ainhoa Menéndez

Language:Spanish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Almatwins Productions

Contact:[email protected]

Artistic Creativity Centre, Wednesday 2 March, 7 pm

Claudia has a very special relationship with her daughter Elia. They share a fantasy world that appears when Claudia tells a story to her daughter. In that world, they are Stela and Zina, a queen and a princess expelled from their kingdom.

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Marceline Blurr

Spain, 2015, 15’

Director:Nadia Mata Portillo

Language:English, French

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Be True Productions

Contact:[email protected]

Artistic Creativity Centre, Wednesday 2 March, 7 pm

Inspired by the movies of the French New Wave, Marceline Blurr is the story of a young woman who was born with a vision impairment that is highly out of the ordinary. For her, the world is a magical place, a huge unfinished tableau upon which she finds it not only amusing but absolutely essential to paint.

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The Right PlaceEl Lugar Adecuado

Spain, 2015, 3’

Director:Fernando Franco, Begoña Arostegui

Language:Spanish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Ferdydurke

Contact:[email protected]

Artistic Creativity Centre, Wednesday 2 March, 7 pm

Does life, perhaps, consist of being in the right place at the right time? Could it consist of interpreting and following the signs?

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Dance and Cinema

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One Million Steps

Germany/Turkey, 2015, 20’

Director:Eva Stotz

Language:Turkish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:ronjafilm

Contact:[email protected]

A tap dancer performs, while elsewhere people run from the tear gas of the police. Two worlds apart, if it wasn’t for an unexpected opening in the floor, right in front of the dancer. She decides to jump, and lands in the middle of the social protests in Istanbul. The dancer witnesses the people’s fight for personal freedom and living space, and takes the opportunity to transform her dance into a statement of solidarity.

Falaki Theatre, Sunday 28 February, 9 pm

Goethe Institute, Wednesday 2 March, 9 pm

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HorizonsHorizontes

Switzerland, 2015, 70’

Director:Eileen Hofer

Language:Spanish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Intermezzo Films

Contact:[email protected]

Artistic Creativity Centre, Wednesday 2 March, 5 pm

Alicia Alonso’s splendour still radiates through the world of bal-let today. A star so brilliant, she captivated audiences world-wide. Even now at the age of ninety, she continues to encour-age the dreams of young dancers who seek to follow in her footsteps. Amanda, a young and aspiring ballet dancer, has dedicated all her efforts to preparing for her exam, the first step towards being accepted into Alonso’s ballet company. Viengsay is one of four celebrated dancers of the National Ballet of Cuba. She has already achieved the status young Amanda dreams of one day attaining, and day after day she continues to evolve under the watchful eye of Alonso, the legendary ballerina in whose shadows she now has to find her own rightful place.

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Czech SwanCzeski łabędź

Poland/ Czech Republic, 2015, 52’

Director:Aleksandra Terpińska

Language:Czech

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:CoLab Pictures

Contact:[email protected]

Czech Swan is a humorous and uplifting story about a group of pensioners from a small Czech village whose age doesn’t stop them from pursuing their dreams and caprices with unbeatable enthusiasm. Hanna and her eleven friends are members of a locally famous dancing group Majorettes, with only two years left before they can celebrate its 15th anniver-sary. Always seeking to try something new, when they notice that their usual cancan routine does not excite the audi-ence’s enthusiasm as it used to, they decide to incorporate a famous ballet piece from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake into their repertoire.

Falaki Theatre, Saturday 27 February, 5 pm

Artistic Creativity Centre, Monday 29 February, 7 pm

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The Need to Dance

The Netherlands, 2014, 58´

Director:Petra Lataster-Czisch, Peter Lataster

Language:Dutch

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Monique Busman, Michiel van Erp

Contact:[email protected]

The Need to Dance is a portrait of the Flemish-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, one of the most versatile and successful dance artists of our times. The documentary follows him as he travels all over Europe. As the film observes him creating and performing widely different styles of dance, he talks in an interior monologue about what lies behind his irrepressible urge to dance. As the son of a Moroccan father, a Muslim, and a Roman-Catholic Flemish mother, it was any-thing but obvious that he would become an artist.

Falaki Theatre, Tuesday 1 March, 5 pmArtistic Creativity Centre, Thursday 3 March, 5 pm

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Tribute to a Cineaste: Pirjo Honkasalo

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250 Grammes: A Radioactive Testament250 grammaa - radioaktiivinen testamentti

Finland, 1983, 53'

Director:Pirjo Honkasalo,Pekka Lehto

Language:Finnish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:P-KINO

Contact:[email protected]

This film is, at its simplest, the story of a father's loss of his only child to brain cancer. Yet the reverberations run even deeper, since the father is the designer of a nuclear station that will produce the potent carcinogen plutonium. The world's nu-clear power stations continue to produce hundreds of tons of the carcinogen, and there is a lack of safe storage methods. Plutonium remains lethal to the living environment for at least 500,000 years, an eternity in human terms.

Falaki TheatreSunday 28 February, 7 pm

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Flame TopTulipää

Finland, 1980, 155'

Goethe Institute, Thursday 3 March, 5 pm

This biographical film celebrates the life of the Finnish novel-ist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), who was born in 1868. Lassila’s early years are briefly shown; then the film richly details his active but paradoxically reclusive adult life, beginning with his sojourn in St. Petersburg, where he worked as a businessman. Unable to stay away from politics, he caused the assassination of a high-ranking Czarist and as a result, had to flee back to Finland to hide. Once established in the comparative safety of a small village, he taught in a school in order to support his real vocation as a writer. Always living on the edge of poverty, if not squarely in the middle of it, Lassila continues to avoid public contact – he keeps his identity low-key and camouflages it by publishing under a variety of pseudonyms.

Director:Pirjo Honkasalo,Pekka Lehto

Language:Finnish, Russian

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:P-KINO

Contact:[email protected]

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Fire EaterTulennielijä

Finland/Sweden, 1998, 100'

Goethe Institute, Monday 29 February, 9 pm

Falaki Theatre, Wednesday 2 March, 9 pm

In Pirjo Honkasalo's films, men are no more than passers-by, or worse, the bringers of violence - destructive forces. In this fictional drama, men have disappeared entirely into the back-ground. Sisters Irene and Helena never knew their father, and their mother deserts them shortly after their birth to run off with a German serviceman. After their grandmother dies, the two sisters end up in an orphanage. Then their mother arrives on the scene and whisks them away to go work for a circus. They travel together throughout Europe, ultimately winding up in Helsinki. While the sisters are devoted to one another, their rela-tionship with their mother is ambivalent at best, but the mother's love for her children is undiminished. Honkasalo tells the story largely through flashbacks in colour, while the scenes set in the present and related by one of the sisters are filmed in black and white, as if the here and now is nothing but a pale reflection of the past. The film is an unhurried examination of how the past impacts the present, a common feature of Honkasalo's films. Each new generation must eat fire to survive.

Director:Pirjo Honkasalo

Language:Finnish, Russian, German, Spanish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Marko Röhr Productions, SVT Drama

Contact:[email protected]

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ITO – A Diary of an Urban PriestITO – kilvoittelijan päiväkirja

Finland/Japan, 2009, 111'

Artistic Creativity Centre, Sunday 28 February, 9 pm

Set in Tokyo, the film tells the story of Yoshinobu Fujioka, a young Buddhist priest, and his fervent search for the mean-ing of life amid oppressive dreams, the back alleys of the city, and the darkness of the human mind. Yoshinobu hears confession in a women´s prison, in bars and at an old geisha house, while the many layers of nocturnal Tokyo and unpre-dictable memories are twisted into a web that drives people face-to-face with one another. Dreams, reality and fiction are blended in this study of the complexity of the human mind, which takes the audience on an exploration of memory while facing oneself and encountering others.

Director:Pirjo Honkasalo

Language:Japanese

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Millennium Film, Baabeli

Contact:[email protected]

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The Three Rooms of Melancholia

Denmark/Germany/Finland/Sweden, 2004, 106'

This portrait of Chechnya during the recent conflict tells a story of uncertainty and bleak despair via a series of lyrical images, which say more than a dozen talking bureaucrats could. The filmmakers take a particular interest in the country's youth. She visits an isolated military school in St. Petersburg, as well as Chechnya's fallen capital, and a refugee camp for children in the neighbouring Republic of Ingushetia, which imply the cycle of growth, violence and death that awaits so many.

Director:Pirjo Honkasalo

Language:Russian, Chechen, Arabic, Finnish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Millennium Film Oy, Baabeli Ky

Contact:[email protected]

Artistic Creativity Centre, Saturday 27 February, 5 pm

Artistic Creativity Centre, Thursday 3 March, 9 pm

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Concrete NightBetoniyö

Finland/Sweden/Denmark, 2013, 96'

Goethe Institute, Tuesday 1 March, 9 pm

The film is about a young shattered mind. It’s about how a cut becomes a scar, how a scar becomes fear and how fear finally turns into violence. The protagonist of the film is a 14-year-old boy named Simo who has not yet developed a sense of self and the ability to protect himself from his surroundings. He lacks his own identity. Simo and his big brother Ilkka are the sons of a helpless and unpredictable single mother. Their chaotic home is located deep in the heart of a concrete jungle in Helsinki. Ilkka has one day of freedom left before starting a prison sentence, and their mother persuades Simo to spend the last night with his brother. Events heighten throughout that single day and night in Helsinki and the brothers witness incidents they would rather not see. Simo has no ability to distort what he sees or delude him-self; he sees things as they really are. When unfiltered, the world seems unbearable. Finally a casual encounter with a photog-rapher, whose intentions Simo misreads, launches him into blind fear, which explodes in panic-stricken violence. In this violence Simo finds his lacking identity, his true face.

Director:Pirjo Honkasalo

Language:Finnish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Bufo

Contact:[email protected]

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Country in Focus: Denmark

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Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars

Iran/Denmark/Germany/Norway/Sweden, 2013, 90’

Director:Berit Madsen

Language:Persian, English

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Radiator Films

Contact:[email protected]

Goethe Institute, Wednesday 2 March, 7 pm

Sepideh wants to become an astronaut. While she spends her nights exploring the secrets of the universe, her family will do anything to keep her on the ground. The expectations for a young Iranian woman are very different from Sepideh’s ambitions, and her plans to go to university are in danger. But Sepideh holds on to her dream. She takes up the fight and teams up with the world's first female space tourist, Anousheh Ansari.

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In Your HandsForbrydelserDenmark, 2004, 101'

Director:Annette K. Olesen

Language:Danish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:IB Tardini

Contact:

Goethe Institute, Monday 29 February, 5 pm

Anna is a recently graduated theologian who is in search of a job. There is nothing more important to her than to have children, but even though she and her husband Frank have been trying for years, nothing has happened. When she is offered a temporary job as a priest at a women's prison, she sees no reason to say no. There she meets Kate, an inmate who possesses supernatural powers. Anna discovers that she is pregnant and it is revealed that Kate carries a secret that may have fatal consequences for both of them.

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In Light of the RevolutionI Lyset af Revolutionen

Denmark, 2015, 54’

Director:Lone Falster, Iben Haahr Andersen

Language:English

Subtitles:Arabic

Production:Danish Doc Production

Contact:[email protected]

Falaki Theatre, Thursday 3 March, 7 pm

The Arab spring swept through Egypt in 2011 and changed everyone. The women made their mark by taking courage and creating powerful, radical art. During the chaotic years when the military and the Muslim Brotherhood were fighting for power, In Light of the Revolution meets eight female artists, including a photographer, a film director, musicians and visual artists.

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CreationZayeshDenmark, 2015, 25'

Director:Roja Pakari

Language:Farsi

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:The National Film School of Denmark

Contact:[email protected]

Falaki TheatreWednesday 2 March, 5 pm

Hamraz Bayan talks about becoming a mother for the first time, as a woman and as an artist. In Farsi zayesh means creation, coming from the word zayman which means birth. This film is about creation on several levels.

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Front View of My FatherMIN FAR FORFRADenmark, 2015, 29'

Director:Nicoline Skotte Jacobsen

Language:Danish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:The National Film School Of Denmark

Contact:[email protected]

Falaki TheatreWednesday 2 March, 5 pm

The film takes place in a subtle and playful studio, a luminous and colourful universe which a daughter has invited her father to, in order to participate in different games and subtly reflect on the divorce that has deprived them both of parts of the daughter's childhood. The film tackles a pressing issue in Danish divorce culture in a new and both experimental and educational way.

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Malek Means Angel

Tunisia/Denmark, 2014, 28'

Director:Lea Hjort Mathiesen

Language:Arabic

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:The National Film School of Denmark

Contact:[email protected]

Falaki TheatreWednesday 2 March, 5 pm

In the Tunisian capital of Tunis, 11-year-old Malek spends every day fencing alongside Yassmine, her best friend who is also her fencing opponent. Yassmine has already won her first gold medal and is better at the sport than Malek. We follow the young girl in the run-up to a major tournament – a time when a lot is expected of Malek. Filmed in a poetic observa-tional style, we see the two girls sitting on a wall talking about boys, in the training room where Malek endures her coach’s less-than-gentle criticism, and in the courtyard of the fencing school where the girls have just been up to some mischief. With an eye for detail and subtle humour, director Lea Hjort Mathiesen captures how the tough girl transforms from a madcap tomboy into a young woman, with new feelings and strong emotions. At the same time, the film lovingly portrays a close friendship that is put under pressure by the demands of growing up.

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The Visitor

Germany/Netherlands, 2014, 79’

Director:Katarina Schröter

Language:Hindi, Portuguese, English, Chinese

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:visitorfilmproject

Contact:[email protected]

Goethe Institute, Sunday 28 February, 7 pm

The visitor, a silent figure incorporated by the filmmaker, roams through three mega-cities, creating wordless encounters with random people, following a dramaturgy of chance both with the choice of the protagonist as well as with the outcome of each story. First simply attendant, she becomes an intruder, friend and even loved one who shares the daily life of her protagonists, their sleeping places and their worries. Through this new presence in their life, the loneliness of these different people becomes apparent; but as the relation intensifies, the border between “I” and “the other” starts to blur.

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Family Business

Germany, 2015, 89’

Director:Christiane Bochner

Language:German, Polish

Subtitles:Arabic, English

Production:Bochner Filmproduktion GbR

Contact:[email protected]

Goethe Institute, Saturday 27 February, 9 pm

Anne from Bochum in Germany is eighty-eight years old; she reigns over her kingdom from the sofa. Her husband passed away recently and it was only then that her daughters realised what he had been successfully covering up: Anne is suffering from dementia. She can‘t live by herself anymore. Meanwhile, Jowita‘s family has been living on the construc-tion site of what is to be their future home in Lubin, Poland for years. The kitchen is missing, the bedrooms are yet to be plastered, their 13-year old daughter wants to have her own room. They are out of money and Jowita is desperate to get a job. This seemingly perfect, win-win situation brings both families together. Jowita is employed to provide full-time care for Anne to take the pressure off her two working daughters. But the old lady continues to lose her grip on reality and finds it hard to make sense of Jowita‘s presence in her life. The two women don‘t seem to understand each other nor like one another much. The days grow long and tedious for Jowita as she is stuck in the old woman‘s routine, far away from her own family.

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Homage toNabeeha Lotfi

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Because Roots Do not Dieألن اجلذور ال متوت

Lebanon, 1975-1977, 55'

Director:Nabeeha Lotfi

Language:Arabic

Subtitles:

Production:Radiator Films

Contact:[email protected]

Falaki Theatre, Monday 29 February, 9 pm

The film is a panorama of Palestinian women's lives in a Leba-nese refugee camp before the Lebanese civil war, with heart-breaking testimonies from the women and children survivors.

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Side Events

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Master Class

An Encounter With Filmmaker-Pirjo Honkasalo:Man Is a Meaning Searching Animal

Goethe Institute, Tuesday 1 March, 7 pm

Pirjo Honkasalo

Pirjo Honkasalo is a highly established director, cinematographer and screen-writer, who has won countless awards for her work. She directed several fea-ture films in the 1970’s and 80’s togeth-er with Pekka Lehto, e.g. Flame Top in Cannes competition 1980. In the 1990’s she continued alone and turned to fea-ture documentaries, directing the prize winning The Trilogy of the Sacred and the Satanic (Mysterion, Tanjuska and the 7 Devils and Atman). She has also directed the stunningly beautiful The 3 Rooms of Melancholia, a story of how Russian and Chechen children were psychologically affected by the war. The film is still one of the most award winning feature documentaries ever. She was then invited to Japan to direct a film in Tokyo coming out with her film ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest.

She has had well over twenty retrospec-tives of her work world wide, acted as a member of several international juries and is actively giving international mas-ter classes. With her film Concrete Night she is back to feature fiction again.

Selected Filmography

2013 Concrete Night

2009 ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest

2004 The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (three prizes at Venice Film Festival, FIPRESCI prize at Thessaloniki Docu-mentary Festival)

1998 Fire-Eater (Premiere and two awards at Locarno Film Festival, AFI Grand Prix)

1996 Atman (Joris Ivens Award at IDFA)

1993 Tanjuska and the 7 Devils

1991 Mysterion (screened at Berlinale’s Panorama Programme 1992)

1985 Da Capo (Premiere at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight)

1983 250 Grams (Premiere at Venice Film Festival)

1980 Flame Top (Cannes Official Selec-tion)

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Master Class

An Encounter With Filmmaker-Annette K. Olesen

Annette K. Olesen

How do we turn limitations into ben-efits?The Dogme 95 movement revolution-ised Danish film over the course of a decade. Not only did it increase the attention that Danish films in general earned internationally, it also funda-mentally changed the Danish film in-dustry from within. It changed the way filmmakers work with films, in terms of budget, in terms of aesthetics, in terms of discipline and not least in terms of co-creating rather than - especially as directors - thinking of themselves as in-genious dictators.

The focus on physical and economic limitations became a source of enor-mous creativity.

The filmmaker will introduce and screen her own Dogme film In Your Hands (2004). She will present the ten Dogme 95 rules and exemplify how the rules di-rectly affected the films and the indus-try. But she won’t just talk about “the good old days.” She will also talk about how she thinks that these experiences have become very valuable again to-day, in a drastically changing market for films.

Biography

Annette graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1991. She has directed shorts, documentaries, TV se-ries and five features. Her features Mi-nor Mishaps (2002), the Dogme 95 film In Your Hands (2004) and Little Soldier (2008) all participated in the interna-tional main competition at the Berlin Film Festival. She directed several epi-sodes of the DR TV series Borgen (2010-11). Her latest directorial effort was the feature The Shooter (2013), followed by six episodes of the DR TV series Broke (2014).

Over the years Annette has frequently led workshops in directing and idea-development, both at the National Film School of Denmark and abroad. In ad-dition she has involved herself in nation-al and international debates about the transition of the movie industry towards digital platforms and new distribution and business models. She has been president of the Danish Film Directors' Association and is currently a member of the board of the Danish public serv-ice broadcaster TV2.

Goethe Institute, Monday 29 February, 7 pm

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Workshop"One Minute Workshop Films"

Goethe Institute, Sunday 28 February, 5 pm

"Correspondence Between Women" is a vid-eo workshop organised by the Cairo Interna-tional Women's Film Festival. It started in 1977 as an initiative by the Women's International Film Festival - Drac Magic. Later on, "Trama", a network that coordinates between wom-en's film festivals in Spain, started coordinat-ing the project. In 2008, the project came to Egypt through "Entre Cineastas" - the Cairo International Women's Film Festival.

Every year, a subject is selected to be the main theme. This year, we embark on a journey to explore a new subject - love concepts.

The tutor conducts an open dialogue between participants from different countries about the different aspects and points of views about the selected subject, in order for them to start creating and discussing their ideas before they realise each of their own short films.

The purpose of the workshop is for non-professional women to learn the basics of

filming with a video camera and directing short films.

After the open discussion, every participant shoots by herself and directs a one-minute short film (one shot) in collaboration with her colleagues, over the span of the workshop (four days, five hours a day).

Each participant "films" her own film on her own. However, all participants alternate the roles of short-film-making activities -- acting, decorating, making up and directing -- with the dynamic of teamwork.

Registration is open for all non-professional female filmmakers. Films made in the workshop must be about the selected subject; they also have to be one-minute long, unedited, one-shot films.

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