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Stage “Equal and different”, December 2016
Director: Dania Reymond
Cast: Samir El Hakim, Sonia Amori, Louiza Nehar, Abdelkader Hamadaine, Yassine Hadj-Henni, Zohir Chabounia, Akram Djeghim, Redouane Boukachabia, Chahrazad Kracheni, Amel Hanifi, Djamel Aouane, Yanis Saadiza, Aya Hamdi, Hamdi Ahmed, Abdenour Bradai
Country: Algeria, France | Year: 2016 | Duration: 42 ′
In a tropical park in Algiers, Samir, a young director, helps his actors during rehearsals. His next film will tell the story of the youth of a besieged city. While at work, the film’s cast finds themselves confronted with the same questions as their characters.
Dania Reymond
Born in Algeria in 1982, Dania Reymond studies at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Marseille and continues her post-graduate studies at the National Higher School of Fine Arts in Lyon and at Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts. For his short film Jeanne (2012), he receives the StudioCollector award. The Essay Garden wins the Youth Jury Award at the 14th Brive Film Festival and has its Italian premiere at MedFilm.
MedFilm Festival 2016 // Amore & Psiche
She made her debut with the award-winning L’isola, presented at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs of the 56th Cannes Film Festival in 2003. In the same year the making of Racconti per L’isola was invited to the Venice International Film Festival in the New Territories section . She has twice won the Silver Ribbon for best documentary: with Terramatta in 2013 and Triangle in 2015. Among her documentary films presented in the most important international festivals and winners of various awards in Italy and abroad: Ècosaimale? (2000), The child Joachim (2000), Hélène’s bag (2000), Devi’s insomnia (2001), Raìz (2004), The world on her shoulders (2006), My human heart (2009), With the breathless (2013, Special Award for Silver Ribbons), Triangle (2014, Cipputi Award), 87 hours (2015, Special Award for Silver Ribbons). With Ascent Film she made Looks my son, presented in 2018 at the Locarno Film Festival, winner of the Ciak d’Oro Bello e invisibile and the Nastro d’Argento “for legality”. In 2018 she received the Visioni Dal Mondo Award, the CIR Award and the Amnesty International Award and in 2019, at the 76th Venice International Film Festival, she was President of the Jury of the Venezia Classici section. Since 2019 she is Artistic Director of the Palermo branch of the Experimental Cinematography Center dedicated to Documentary Cinema.
Wednesday 11 November 2020 at 17:00 – Online presentation of ARABPOP as part of the MedFilm Festival “Readings from the Mediterranean” session, live streaming from the Festival’s Facebook page.
Participants:
Chiara Comito, co-curator and author,
Anna Gabai, author,
Luce Lacquaniti, author.
Debate moderated by Ada Barbaro, professor of Arabic literature at Sapienza in Rome.
Introduction by Veronica Flora, MedFilm Festival
In Italy, the so-called Arab Springs of 2011 have often been analyzed by commentators and journalists only as unexpected outbursts of violence or as the result of power games between Western states. The short-sightedness of a thought flattened on Islamophobic positions prevented us from really knowing who went down to the squares of Tunis, Cairo or Damascus: a young generation that asked for freedom, calling into question political, religious and gender affiliations. This spirit of freedom has been collected and elaborated by Arab intellectuals, artists and writers who in the cinema, on the walls of their cities, in novels, poems and songs have told the genesis and the consequences of the protest movements. The contributions of this volume intend to give credit to this incredible cultural season, and to make the Italian public aware of the literature, music, films, artistic and theatrical works born from this period of revolt.
“I believe that revolutions must not lie in order not to lose their credibility. I think they must collect the statements of witnesses, in which details are intertwined that tell of the pain, the assault on the cities, the open fire without restraint on the demonstrators. […] We need truth in times of war, because human life and death are not things to be taken lightly. We need a dose of innocent lie, as in writing, in times of peace and love, to sweeten existence in the face of prevailing cruelty.“
Khaled Khalifa, Syrian writer
Chiara Comito is an Arabist, has a degree in Languages and Relations and Institutions of Asia and Africa. In 2012 he founded Editoriaraba, the main Italian website on contemporary Arabic literature. He has written for several newspapers “Internazionale”, “Vice”, “Arab Media Report”. He works as a geopolitical analyst dealing with the Middle East and collaborates with literary and film festivals, publishing houses, bookshops and libraries to promote Arab culture.
Silvia Moresi is an Arabist and translator, teaches Contemporary Arabic Culture and Literature at the Istituto di Alti Studi SSML Carlo Bo, in Bari. She has translated, for the Jouvence publishing house, the anthology My most beautiful poems (2016) by Nizar Qabbani and the poem collection Eleven Planets (2018) by Mahmud Darwish. Since 2017 she is the author, for “Q Code Magazine”, of the column Atlante Letterario Arabo, translated into French and republished in the magazine “Orient XXI”.
