{"id":5910,"date":"2015-02-23T14:53:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T13:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/now\/?p=5910"},"modified":"2015-09-03T16:55:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T14:55:37","slug":"news-film-selection-of-middle-east-now-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/en\/news-film-selection-of-middle-east-now-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: FILM SELECTION OF MIDDLE EAST NOW 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RISE-Wings-ok.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RISE - Wings ok\" src=\"https:\/\/middleastnow.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RISE-Wings-ok-1024x500.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"468\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The<strong> film selection of Middle East Now 2015 is announced<\/strong>, and the complete program of the screenings and the events is coming soon.\u00a0<strong>43 films<\/strong> in the program, <strong>18 short films<\/strong> and <strong>37 Italian and international premieres<\/strong>. A journey through <strong>Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Kurdistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Palestine, Qatar, Syria, UAE<\/strong> and for the <strong>first time Turkey.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; line-height: 1.5;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>FEATURE FILMS and DOCUMENTARIES<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><strong>Tales di Rakhshan Bani-Etemad<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">(Iran, 2014, 88\u2019) vo. persiano, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Set in Tehran, the film takes in a man humiliated by the bureaucracy, a shamed and abandoned single mother, a terrifying snapshot of meth addiction and more. The realism is charged with empathy, we feel united with these people, sharing their hopes and frustrations.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The Mulberry House di Sara Ishaq<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">(Yemen , Syria , Egypt, Scotland, United Arab Emirates, 2013, 65&#8242;) vo. arabo, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">After 10 years in Scotland, Sara Ishaq travels back to her childhood home of Yemen and takes her camera along. In this personal and touching film, Ishaq captures events in her own home throughout the tumultuous period of the Revolution, when multiple changes are afoot.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">No Land&#8217;s Song di Ayat Najafi<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Iran, Germania, Francia, 2014, 90\u2019) vo. persiano, inglese, francese, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\nIn Iran it is forbidden for women to sing solo in front of a mixed audience. The dream of a young composer, Sara Najafi, to bring on stage two official Iranian singers along with three French artists, it turns into a fascinating journey between prohibitions and taboos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Until I lose my Breath di Emine Emel Balci<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">(Turchia, Germania, 2015, 94\u2019) vo. turco, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\n<\/span>Serap is a quiet but hot-headed adolescent who is working long hours in a cramped clothing workshop. The only thing that keeps Serap going is the hope of moving into an apartment with her father, a long distance truck driver. Since the father is quite indifferent to Serap\u2019s wishes, however, she decides to take matters in her own hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Hamama di Nujoom Alghanem [Focus UAE]<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Emirati Arabi, 2010, 63\u2019) vo. arabo, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Hamama is a nearly 90-year-old female healer and living legend in the Emirates. Blessed with an incredible gift of healing she has to face her fragility and age that threaten to impact her work and her livelihood.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The Blue Veiled di Rakhshan Bani-Etemad<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Iran, 85\u2019, 1995) vo. persiano, sottotitoli: inglese, italiano.<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">An elderly owner of a tomato farm and sauce factory, after his wife&#8217;s death, falls in love with one of the workers of the factory. While everybody in the big family persuades the old man to abandon the relationship, the old man makes his final choice of love.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Turning Thirteen &#8211; An Unusual Bar Mitzvah Film di Dana Idsis<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Israele, 2013, 58\u2019) vo. ebraico, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\nThe film follows the preparations for the Bar Mitzvah of Guy, the director&#8217;s younger autistic brother. During the course of preparations for this unusual event, the daily and complex reality the family must cope with is revealed, paved with difficulties and humor, and Guy&#8217;s unique view of the world is discovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">10949 Women di Nassima Guessoum<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Algeria, Francia, 2014, 75\u2019) vo. arabo, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">In Algiers, the director meets Nassima Hablal, a forgotten heroine of the Algerian Revolution. Like a grandmother with her granddaughter, she tells her story of a woman in the war, her fight for an independent Algeria.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The Narrow Frame of Midnight di Tala Hadid<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Marocco, UK, Francia, Qatar, 2014, 93\u2019) vo. arabo, francese, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\nZacaria a Moroccan-Iraqi writer, sets off on a journey to find his missing brother. A\u00efcha, a young orphan sold to a petty criminal, escapes from captivity. Judith, the lover Zacaria left behind, yearns to have a child. The respective quests of these characters intersect, giving them opportunities to rescue one another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">This is my Land di Tamara Erde<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Francia, Israele, 2014, 90\u2019) vo. arabo, ebraico, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">How do the Palestinian and Israeli education systems teach the history of their nations? The film follows several Israeli and Palestinian teachers during a school year. Through dialogues and challenges with their students, the viewers obtain the long lasting and profound effect that the Israeli\/Palestinian conflict transmits onto the next generation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Once Upon a Time, Cinema di Mohsen Makhmalbaf<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Iran, 1992, 90\u2019) vo persiano, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The King, who is against cinema and censors the films himself,\u00a0falls in love with one of the actresses of an old movie and in order to get hold of his lover he leaves the throne and goes after the cinema. Once Upon a Time, Cinema \u2026 is a fantasy on the pattern of fairy tales of \u201cOne thousand and one nights\u201d, which presents a condensed history of Iranian cinema and expresses the love of cinema in general.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><strong>The Valley di Ghassan Salhab<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">(Libano, Francia, Germania, Qatar, EAU, 2014, 135\u2019) vo. arabo, francese, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\n<\/span>After surviving a car crash in the middle of Lebanon\u2019s isolated Beqaa Valley, an amnesiac man finds himself held hostage on a local farm that doubles as an illegal drug-production facility. The Valley is the\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Ghassan Salhab&#8217;s masterfully directed last feature, a metaphysical condition report about our being in the here and now.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Private Revolutions: Young, Female, Egyptians di Alexandra Schneider<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Egitto, Austria, 2014, 98\u2019) vo. arabo, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">A documentary about four young Egyptian women with different social background. Their fight for justice and gender equality leads to constant clashes with their mendominated surrounding. Nevertheless they keep going and that&#8217;s what the movie wants to show: their courage, sensitivity and their willingness.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Tarzan and Arab di Paul Fischer<br \/>\n<\/span>(Palestina, UK, 2014, 40\u2019) vo. arabo, inglese, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Tarzan and Arab tells the story of the Palestinian filmmakers, who, after growing up in a Gaza City devoid of any cinemas, as adults start to make acclaimed films of their own, becoming the new promises of cinema made in Palestine.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">From My Syrian Room di Hazem Alhamwi<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Siria, Francia, Germania, Libano, Qatar, 2014, 70\u2019) vo. arabo, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\nHow can you keep your humanity in a country where you\u2019re educated to erase in yourself any singularity? In his early years, the Syrian painter and filmmaker Hazem Alhamwi felt free by drawing ob-sessively in his own room. When the Revolution started, he was unable to face this terror immediately. Through his memories, he tells about the will of freedom of a whole country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">In the Sands of Babylon di Mohammed Al-Daradji<br \/>\n<\/span>(Iraq, UK, 2013, 92\u2019) vo. arabo, inglese, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\nThe last film by multi-award winning Iraqi filmmaker, Mohamed Al-Daradji, it is a hybrid tale set against the backdrop of the closing days of the Gulf War. Ibrahim, an Iraqi soldier, has escaped from Kuwait as the Iraqi army retreats. Facing the perilous journey home, Ibrahim is captured by the republican guard and cast into Saddam\u2019s infamous prisons as traitor. In search of answers about the past, the Director of the film confronts three survivors of the uprising.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">A Few Cubic Meters of Love di Jamshid Mahmoudi<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Afghanistan, Iran, 2014, 90\u2019) vo. pashto, persiano, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\nSomewhere in the outskirts of Tehran a small factory illegally employs Afghan asylum seekers, who live with their families in old containers or modest shacks in nearby shanty towns. Saber, a young Iranian worker, secretly meets Marona, daughter of Abdolsalam, an Afghan worker. A love story unfolds, the conclusion of which no-one can foretell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Fest of Duty di Firouzeh Khosrovani<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Iran, 2014, 60\u2019), vo persiano, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\nFor Muslims, puberty begins at nine years old. In Iran, this occasion is celebrated with a party that remains etched in the memory of the girls. Eight years later, the filmmaker visits two of the girls she filmed: the cousins and former best friends Melika and Maryam. What\u2019s been happening to them in the meantime?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Censored Voices by Mor Loushy<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">(Israele, 2015, 84\u2019) vo. ebraico, inglese, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\n<\/span>One week after the 1967 \u2018Six-Day\u2019 war, a group of young kibbutzinks, led by renowned author Amos Oz and Editor Avraham Shapira, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The Israeli army censored the recordings, allowing only a fragment of the conversations to be published. \u201cCensored Voices\u201d reveals these original recordings for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Our Terrible Country di Mohammad Ali Atassi, Ziad Homsi<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Siria, Libano, 2014, 85\u2019) vo. arabo, inglese, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\nOur Terrible Country is a film about the wounds of Syria through the perilous journey of Yassin Al-Haj Saleh and Ziad Homsi. They travel together in an arduous, dangerous route from the liberated area of Douma\/Damascus to Raqqa in northern Syria, to find themselves forced to leave their home country for a temporary exile in Turkey. Our Terrible Country is not only a film that is incredibly urgent and timely, but it&#8217;s also an act of resistance that portrays the ground zero of current human condition at its bare bones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The Wanted 18 di Amer Shomali e Paul Cowan<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Palestina, Francia, Canada, 2014, 75\u2019) vo. arabo, ebraico, inglese sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">During the First Palestinian Intifada a group of townspeople in the West Bank town of Beit Sahour decide to buy eighteen cows and produce their own milk, seeking to create an alternative economy as a stepping stone towards self-sufficiency and sovereignty. Their venture is so successful that the collective farm becomes a landmark, until the Israeli army takes note and declares that the cows pose &#8220;a threat to the national security of the state of Israel.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Life May Be di Mania Akbari e Mark Cousins<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Iran, UK, 2014, 80\u2019) vo. Inglese, persiano, sottotitoli: inglese, italiano<br \/>\nAn epistolary dialogue between Mark Cousins, a famous British director, and Mania Akbari, an actress discovered by Kiarostami and today a renown director. A comparison on the diversity of culture, gender and artistic sensibility that involves the viewer as in the most fascinating love stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><strong>Yol di Yilmaz G\u00fcney, Serif G\u00f6ren<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">(Turchia, Svizzera, Francia, 1981, 109&#8242;) vo. turco, inglese, persiano, sottotitoli: italiano<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Yol (&#8220;The Road&#8221;) is the masterpiece by Y\u0131lmaz G\u00fcney, a portrait of Turkey in the aftermath of the 1980 Turkish coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat: its people and its authorities are shown via the stories of five prisoners given a week&#8217;s home leave.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Ich Liebe Dich di Emine Emel Balci<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Turchia, Germania, 2012, 75\u2019) vo. turco, tedesco, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Ich Liebe Dich tells the story of peasant women from one of the most remote and impoverished parts of Turkey as they attempt to reunite with their migrant worker husbands in Germany. To comply with a new German immigration law, these women must learn German, if they want to join their husbands.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Peau du Colle di Kaouther Ben Hani<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Tunisia, Francia, 2013, 23\u2019) vo.\u00a0 arabo, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Amira, 5 years old, doesn\u2019t like school. In order to avoid going there she finds an unstoppable idea that goes beyond her expectations\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Almost Friends di Nitzan Ofir &amp; Barak Heymann<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Israele, 2014, 60\u2019) vo.\u00a0 arabo, ebraico, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\nTwo girls, an Arab and an Israeli, meet online. As participants in a program combining education and technology, their relationship starts from online correspondence. Meeting face-to-face adds an exciting, tense and often surprising component to the two girls\u2019 lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Memories on Stone di Shawkat Amin Korki<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>(Iraq,\u00a0Germania,\u00a0Qatar, 2014, 97\u2019) vo. curdo, arabo, persiano, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">After the fall of the regime in Iraq, childhood friends Hussein and Alan decide to produce a film about the Al Anfal Kurdish genocide. But making a film in postwar Kurdistan is a nightmarish experience, the most difficult task being to find a lead actress. Through the trials and tribulations of his protagonists, which he treats with a subtle humour, the director gives us a poignant glimpse of contemporary Kurdish society.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;\"><strong>SHORT FILMS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Rise\u00a0di Ali F. Mostafa<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (EAU, Canada, 2015, 14\u2019) vo. arabo, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Set in 2025, RISE is an ego trip, a short music film where businessman Jamal El-Nargisee finds himself battling a personal coup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Policeman&#8217;s House\u00a0di Mich&#8217;ael Zupraner<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (Israele, Palestina, 2013, 25\u2019) vo. ebraico, arabo, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5; color: #000000;\"> Provocatively constructed around Mich&#8217;ael Zupraner&#8217;s precarious position as an Israeli Jew living in the Palestinian city of Hebron, the film alternates a gaze looking out of and one looking into his house, with a series of rumours, lies, and half-truths about his presence that circulate among his Arab and Jewish neighbours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Runner\u00a0di Mohannad Eissa [Tripoli Stories]<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (Libia, UK, 2014, 4\u2019) vo. arabo, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5; color: #000000;\"> The story of what happened to Libyan runner Tari Al Shibli when he revealed his tattooed independence flag after winning international race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Journey\u00a0di Hana Makki<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (Emirati Arabi, 2012, 15\u2019) vo. arabo, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> A conversation between a young Ethiopian housemaid arriving in a new country and her older Indian Taxi Driver. On their journey we discover these invisible expatriates\u2019 hopes, dreams and realities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Stuffed Fish\u00a0di Baran Jafari<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (Iran, 2014, 6\u2019), vo persiano, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Shirin returns to Iran a day earlier than she was supposed to without informing anyone, and she plans to surprise Amir by the stuffed fish she is going to make\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Feeding 500\u00a0di Rafed Al Harth<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (Emirati Arabi, 2013, 20\u2019) vo. arabo, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> How many days can a person go on feeding stray cats? For Sediq, it has been 15 years. We gain insight into his daily life as he faces hostility, sympathy\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Neighbour\u00a0di Nayla Al Khaja<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (Emirati Arabi, 2013, 18\u2019) vo. arabo, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Sarah moves to Dubai to make a fresh start, leaving behind a tragedy. Her interactions with an elderly neighbor force her out of isolation, and she slowly confronts her past. Little by little, she opens her heart until one careless act threatens to destroy this new bond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Journey\u00a0di Hana Makki<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (Emirati Arabi, 2012, 15\u2019) vo. arabo, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> A conversation between a young Ethiopian housemaid arriving in a new country and her older Indian Taxi Driver. On their journey we discover these invisible expatriates\u2019 hopes, dreams and realities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Freej\u00a0di Mohammed Saeed Harib<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (Emirati Arabi, 2013, 19\u2019) vo. arabo, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Middle East&#8217;s first 3D animated series, FREEJ is the tale of four old national women living in a secluded neighborhood in modern day Dubai. The show&#8217;s main characters, Um Saeed, Um Saloom, Um Allawi and Um Khammas, try to live a peaceful life in the midst of the ever-expanding city around them.\u00a0Episode 1: MARGARET\u00a0(Series 4), 19 min.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Shouk\u00a0di Dotan Moreno<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Israele, 2014, 18\u2019) vo. ebraico, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">A teenager lives under the shadow of his controlling mother in Israeli\u00a0periphery. Beneath their day to day survival, the film explores questions of\u00a0marginality and poverty in a society searching for its identity.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Land of Men\u00a0di Kelly Ali \u00a0[Tripoli Stories]<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Libia, UK, 2014, 4\u2019) vo. arabo, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Libyan women had so many dreams post 2011 revolution.\u00a0Whatever happened to them?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Angelus Novus\u00a0di Aboozar Amini<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Afghanistan, Paesi Bassi, UK, 2015, 25\u2019) vo. pashto, persiano, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Afghani refugee Ali and his brother have just arrived in Turkey where they earn their living shining shoes. When one day their spot has been taken, their fragile existence and dreams hang by a thread.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maternity Leave\u00a0di Moran Ifergan<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Israele, 2014, 7\u2019) vo. ebraico, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">A young mother, the director and main character of the film, closes herself inside her house in Jerusalem with her newborn. She looks outside at the world through her camera.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>With Premeditation\u00a0di Tarzan &amp; Arab<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Palestina, 2014,\u00a05\u2019)\u00a0vo. arabo, inglese, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Prayer is an act of virtue that involves the deepest respect for God, humility and dedication. But when prayer becomes a daily habit just practiced only to maintain a certain social status or power, it becomes a disaster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The Mosque\u00a0di Farag Al- Sharif [Tripoli Stories]<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Libia, UK, 2014, 4\u2019) vo. arabo, sottotitoli: italiano, inglese<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Post 2011 Libyan revolution, Tripoli saw a series of attacks by religious extremists damaging Sufi shrines such as the beautiful 18th century Ahmed Pasha Karamanli mosque.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Sandwich Maker\u00a0di Samer S. 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