A pianist living in a war-torn Middle-Eastern town where music has been banned by ISIS, dreams of a career in Europe. But when his piano is broken before Karim can sell it to pay for his evacuation, he embarks on a dangerous mission to repair it.Read More »
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An invitation to probe into one of Egypt’s least exposed areas: the world of psychiatry and “madness”. The daily detention of those who have gone to the other side of society. The film is a foray into this world of outcast and recluses.Read More »
Ali is in love with a goat. Ibrahim is being driven mad by sounds that no one else can hear. After visiting a local healer who decides they are both cursed, they decide to journey across Egypt in an attempt to lift the curses that torment them. Ali, forced by his mother, and Ibrahim forced by desperation form an unlikely friendship in this uplifting tale of self-acceptance.Read More »
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Rabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. He sings in a choir and edits Braille documents for an income. His life unravels when he tries to apply for a passport and discovers that his identification card, which he has carried his entire life, is a forgery. Traveling across rural Lebanon in search of a record of his own birth, he meets people on the far fringes of society who tell their own stories, open further questions and give Rabih minor clues about his true identity. Descending into a void at the heart of his existence, Rabih encounters a nation incapable of telling his or its own narrative.Read More »
In Nazareth, an old couple lives wearily to the rhythm of the daily routine. On the other side of the border, in Ramallah, their son Tarek wishes to remain an eternal bachelor, their daughter is about to give birth while her husband lands a movie role and the grandmother loses her head … Between check-points and dreams, frivolity and politics, some want to leave, others want to stay but all have personal affairs to resolve.Read More »
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In 2007, the human rights organisation B’tselem launched a project consisting of providing video cameras and training to Palestinian volunteers in the West Bank to document their lives under Israeli occupation. Made up of many short films, “Of Land and Bread” is a film of painful eloquence.
Latitudes Section – Visions du Réel 2020Read More »
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A simple peasant discovers that Al-Iqtaa (feudalism) authority is an extension of the colonial authority, when his land is taken from him. He is imprisoned, beaten and insulted by the gendarme. He escapes from the prison to go to the mountains with a rifle. There, he begins his bloody struggle with the gendarme and Al-Iqtaa bands. At that time, the conditions for revolution were not riped yet. Peasants were with him in soul, but their will was not theirs. So, he remains alone, his revolution is that of one person, and so it ends as it shall be.Read More »
Focuses on 13-year-old Mohammed Hejazi, a second-grade dropout the filmmaker encountered at the Karni crossing in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian children often gather to throw stones.Read More »
Director Mohanad Yaqubi draws on recently-discovered and archival found footage to explore the tumultuous history of Palestine and Palestinian filmmaking in this timely and insightful documentary.Read More »