2006
Egypt
Color/35mm/86min/Orig. Language: Arabic |
| Mahmoud a teacher at the High Institute of Acting meets "Hind" the young actress who wants to subscribe at the institute. Their relationship grows stronger after a mutual misunderstanding. Thanks to this relationship "Mahmoud" explores the real meaning of life and thinking. |
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- Director: Kamla Abou Zeikry
- Script: Ahmed El Nasser, Samy Hossam
- D.O.P.: Ahmed El Morsy
- Music: Khaled Shokry
- Editing: Dina Farouk
- Cast: Mahmoud Hemeida, Hind Sabry, Khaled Abou El Naga, Aida Ryiad
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2004
UK - South Africa
Color/35mm/110min/Orig. Language: English
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Police officer Dirk Hendrick files an amnesty application for Alex Mpondo, a member of the South African Parliament who can’t rememeber the torture he once endured as a captive political activist. Meanwhile, South African-born attorney Sarah Barcant returns to her homeland to represent Mpondo, as well as Steve Sizela, Mpondo’s friend who was arrested along with him and never heard from again. |
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- Director: Tom Hopper
- Written by: Troy Kennedy-Martin, from Gillian Slovo’s
- Cast: Hilary Swank, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ian Roberts
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2005
Germany
DigiBeta / 65min / Orig. Language: German / Subtitles: English
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| Turkish wedding and circumcision ceremonies are traditionally rural. Since no rustic structure organizes such ceremonies in Germany, this work is carried out by professionals. In the heart of Neuk?lln - a former industrial area in Berlin characterized by ruins of car garages, paintshops and warehouses lies the "Prestige-Wedding-Hall". The owner of this hall offers a whole service package. In this context, Turkey, the village, the countryside, and the big families are but backgrounds and clichés printed on blinds in the studio. |
- Director: Aysun Bademsoy
- Cast: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith - Natascha McElhone - Daniel Brühl
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2005
France
Color/35mm/110min/Orig. Language: French
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Catherine Deneuve plays Eugenia, the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, the |
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country is left without a king. According to the law, the new king needs to be married so that leaves out the eldest son. Her youngest son, Prince Arnaud (Lambert Wilson) is married to the lovely Armelle (Valérie Lemercier, who is also the director) and they have two young children. They become the future rulers of the kingdom. |
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- Director: Valerie Lemercier
- Cast: Valerie Lemercier, Lambert Wilson, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Aumon
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1999
Tunisia
Color/35mm/17min
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Am Salah, "Mister Average", is victim of a tasteless joke organized by a crew from the Tunisian television’s "candid camera". When this episode has been shown on TV, people |
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people make fun of him in the street and his life becomes such hell that he has to disguise himself to avoid being recognized. But one day, he is invited to the set of the program - and he turns the tables against the producers by telling the television pranksters a few uncomfortable home truths. |
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- Director: Ibrahim Letaief
- Production: Long et Court
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2004
UK
Color/35mm/103min/Orig. Language: English-German-Polish-French
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| Set in 1936, Ladies in Lavender is the charming and sweetly melancholic story about two ageing spinster sisters whose peaceable Cornwall existence is disrupted when they take a young man into their care... and their hearts. |
- Director: Charles Dance
- Cast: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith - Natascha McElhone - Daniel Brühl
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2004
Tunisia
Color/35mm/87min/Orig. Language: Arabic
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| An entertaining parody of the increasingly sophisticated acrobatic feats that Tunisians are forced to perform to obtain an entry visa to France. The latest imaginary law on immigration imposes a new test to pass: a dictation in French. The visa is obtained only if there are no mistakes. For poor Rachid this is the start of a forced immersion in the French language: programmes on French culture, music by Trenet and "nouvelle cuisine"... |
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- Director: Ibrahim Letaief
- Written by: Ibrahim Letaief
- Cast: Jamal Madani, Jamila Chihi, Lotfi Dziri
- Camera: Sofiéne El-Fani
- Sound: Yves Lévesque
- Editor: Nadia Ben Rachid
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2005
France/ Belgium
Color/35mm/95min/Orig. Language: French
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Dispossessed twenty-year old Bruno lives with his eighteen-year-old girlfriend Sonia. They live off Sonia's unemployment benefits and the panhandling and petty theft committed by Bruno and his gang. But their lives change drastically when Sonia gives birth to their child, Jimmy. |
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- Screenplay and Direction: Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne
- Cinematography: Alain Marcoen
- Camera Operator: Benoit Dervaux
- Sound: Jean-Pierre Duret
- Editing: Marie-Hélène Dozo
- Mixage: Thomas Gauder
- Decors: Igor Gabriel
- Costumes: Monic Parelle
- Cast: Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Jérémie Segard
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2005
German
51min | Digi Beta | original German/English/Arabic version with German or English subtitles |
| Lost in Bremerhaven is the story of an Iraqi freight ship "Al-Zahraa" (The Rose) that has been lying in Bremerhaven harbour for the last 15 years, stuck fast and rotting. Adel |
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| and Abdullah, two men who come from Iraq to Bremerhaven in August 2002 to watch over the ship for six monthly toursof duty. As the USA invade Iraq, Adel and Abdullah watch the bombing of Baghdad on TV and their home country falling into chaos. With absolutely no contact with their families,their job becomes torturous; the ship their prison. |
- Director: Knud Vetten & Andreas Wenderoth
- Production: de facto medienagentur Kohlenstr. 204107 Leipzig, Germany, tel: +49 (0) 341 / 234 76 11, fax: +49 (0) 341 / 234 76 23, vetten@defactomedienagentur.de, www.al-zahraa.de
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1998
UK – Iran
Color/16 mm/80min/Orig. Language: English
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Women and family law in Iran. |
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2005
Egypt
Color/Digital Video/70min/Orig. Language: Arabic/subtitle: English
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After the end of the Trojan War, Ulysses, the legendary Greek warrior, began his journey back to his homeland Ithaki. A journey that should have taken him days lasted for many years. In, 1922 Constantine P. Cavafy, the Alexandrian poet, wrote the poem "Ithaki" that inspires the film. Ithaki glimpses into fifteen characters whose lives have been touched by war, illness, disability and addiction, fusing documentary and fiction genre to highlight the thin line that exists between reality and fantasy. Set in modern day Cairo, the film captures moments of joy, sadness and frustration as the characters' journeys are waved together by a war-cameraman who wants to make his first fiction film. |
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- Director: Ibrahim El Batout
- Music: Amir Khalaf
- Editing: Ihab Farid, Mohamed Samir
- D.O.P.: Ibrahim El Batout
- Dialogue: Mariam Naoum
- Cast: Ahmed Kamal, Hanan Youssef, Boutros Boutros Ghali, Karima Nayt, Amr Fekry, Fathy Salama
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2005
UK
Color/35mm/104min
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| Selected for the Cannes 2005 festival favourite, Kim Longinotto's latest work (co-directed with Florence Ayisi) looks at |
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| the work of one small courthouse in south-west Cameroon. The two women at the heart of the documentary - State Counsel and Court President - dispense wisdom, wisecracks and justice in fair measure. The victims of crime - an abused child, a woman daring to accuse a man of rape, and another trying to end a brutal marriage in a society where divorce is taboo - are handled with fierce compassion. You'll feel like cheering when justice is served. |
- Director: Kim Longinotto & Florence Ayisi
- Editor: Ollie Huddleston
- D.O.P: Kim Longinotto
- Sound: Mary Milton
- Music: D'Gary
- Cast: Beatrice Ntuba, Vera Ngassa
- Producer: Kim Longinotto
- Production Company: Vixen Films, tg@tgraham.demon.co.uk
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