Programme edition 2021
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Al-Ahlam al-Mumkinna (Permissible Dreams)
Atteyat Al-Abnoudy
Permissible Dreams traces the life of Oum Said, a woman farmer living in a small town on the Suez Canal. Although
she does not read or write, the woman in question is her
family’s economist, doctor, and the planner of its future,
as she dreams “to the limits of her ...
Al-Sandawich (The Sandwich)
Atteyat Al-Abnoudy
The Sandwich explores the daily life and work of children in Abnoud, a rural village located 600 kilometres to the south
of Cairo, where the trains that carry the tourists to the south
of Egypt pass through without stopping.
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Beyrouth, jamais plus (Beirut, Never Again)
Jocelyne Saab
Gunfire and song mix with a poetic voice-over written by the Lebanese writer and painter Etel Adnan (who also wrote
a text for Letter from Beirut) in what would become the first
entry in Saab’s “Beirut Trilogy”, which searches for traces
of life amid the bombed-out buildings ...
Beyrouth, ma ville (Beirut, My City)
Jocelyne Saab
Beirut, My City finds Saab and her collaborator, the playwright and director Roger Assaf, returning to the shell of her former home following Israel’s 1982 invasion, finding
small glimmers of hope in the chaos of refugee camps and
the rubble of decimated neighborhoods.
Bihar al-'Attash (Seas of Thirst)
Atteyat Al-Abnoudy
In Seas of Thirst, Al-Abnoudy moves away from her usual exploration of Egypt’s south to the north of the country,
wherein she captures communities living near the salty
lakes of El Borrolos during a treacherous drought.
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Days after the massacre of Karantina, in a predominantly Muslim shanty town in Beirut, Jocelyne Saab met children
who’d escaped, and who were deeply traumatised by the
horrific fighting they’d seen with their own eyes.
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Les femmes palestiniennes (Palestinian Women)
Jocelyne Saab
Palestinian women, the often-forgotten victims of the Israeli-Palestinian War, are here given a voice by Jocelyne
Saab. Commissioned by Antenne 2, but never aired.
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Husan al-Tin (Horse of Mud)
Atteyat Al-Abnoudy
In her first film, made on a shoestring with borrowed equipment, Atteyat Al-Abnoudy captures the basic process of mud-brick making on the banks of the Nile.
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Iqa' al-Haya (Rhythm of Life)
Atteyat Al-Abnoudy
A beautiful depiction of the daily life of farmers, the film unfolds in
the filmmaker’s characteristically unobtrusive and deeply
humane manner.
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La Nouba borrows the structure of the nouba, a five-part traditional Andalusian music form, to tell the story of a woman who returns to the town of her childhood fifteen years after
the violent War of Independence.
As a historian, Assia Djebar had been asked by Pathé-Gaumont to sift through some old film reels, which turned out to be discarded newsreels on the colonies, focusing on the
everyday life of the Maghrebi peoples from the early twentieth century to the Second World War.
Leila wal Zi'ab (Leila and the Wolves)
Heiny Srour
A film which questions the gospels of the gun; its images
flowing in search of woman’s political and historical identity
in the Middle East.
Lettre de Beyrouth (Letter from Beirut)
Jocelyne Saab
Three years after the beginning of the civil war in Lebanon, Jocelyne Saab returns to a Beirut that has irrevocably
changed.
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Madinat Al-Mawta (Egypt, City of the Dead)
Jocelyne Saab
A portrait of the City of the Dead, an inhabited cemetery just outside of Cairo and on the fringes of the city’s public
dumping ground, like a living reproach and a bad conscience.
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OotS - Assia Djebar 1
A program in the context of Out of the Shadows / Courtisane festival.
OotS - Assia Djebar 2
A program in the context of Out of the Shadows / Courtisane festival.
OotS - Atteyat Al-Abnoudy 1
A compilation of short films in the context of Out of the Shadows / Courtisane festival.
OotS - Atteyat Al-Abnoudy 2
A compilation of short films in the context of Out of the Shadows / Courtisane festival.
OotS - Heiny Srour 1
A program in the context of Out of the Shadows / Courtisane festival.
OotS - Heiny Srour 2
A program in the context of Out of the Shadows / Courtisane festival.
OotS - Jocelyne Saab 1
A compilation of short films in the context of Out of the Shadows / Courtisane festival.
OotS- Jocelyne Saab 2
A compilation of short films in the context of Out of the Shadows / Courtisane festival.
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In the late 60s, Dhofar rose up against the British-backed Sultanate of Oman, in a democratic, feminist guerrilla
movement. Heiny Srour and her team crossed 500 miles
of desert and mountains by foot, under bombardment by
the British Royal Air Force, to reach the conflict zone ...
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Ughniyat Touha al-Hazina (Sad Song of Touha)
Atteyat Al-Abnoudy
In many ways the sister film to Horse of Mud, Al-Abnoudy’s second film, her graduation film at the Film School in Cairo,
is a portrait of Cairo’s street performers.