Category: MedFilm Festival

MedFilm Festival Archive

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 20 May 2021
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The MedFilm Festival Archive is created as part of the Voices and Images of Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean project of the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (DISO) Department and includes a selection of the most representative cinematographic works of the themes of intercultural dialogue in the Mediterranean, presented in the past years in the editions of the MedFilm Festival, accompanied by the related documentation. The MedFilm Festival Archive is part of the media library of the Diso Library and is therefore accessible to all through the catalog, consultation and loans of the Diso Library.

The MedFilm Festival Archive already includes an important nucleus of feature films, documentaries and short films and is constantly expanding thanks to the generous contribution of donations for educational purposes by numerous authors, production and distribution companies from the various Mediterranean countries who collaborate with the MedFilm Festival, active in Rome for 25 years. A selection of the works from the MedFilm Festival Archive can be accessed on this site by searching by theme or by country.

Les Bienheureux

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 2 April 2021

Director: Sophie Djama

Country: Francia, Belgio, Qatar | Year: 2017 | Lenght: 102′

MedFilm Festival 2017 // Amore & Psiche

Algiers, a few years after the end of the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in a restaurant. During the journey, they exchange their impressions of Algeria: Amal talks about the lost illusions, while Samir talks about the need to overcome them. Meanwhile, their son Fahim and his friends Feriel and Reda roam a hostile Algiers, ready to steal their youth.

SOFIA DJAMA

Born in Oran in 1979, Sofia Djama moved to Algiers to complete her studies and graduate in Literature. At the beginning of the 2000s, he began to write a collection of short stories with young Algerians as protagonists. Mollement, a samedi matin, the adaptation of one of these stories, receives two awards at the 2011 Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. These awards encourage her to pursue a career in the world of cinema. Les Bienheureux (2017), his first feature film, is selected in Venice in the Orizzonti section.

Tags Francia

Europe and the Mediterranean Freedom of expression Gender equality Human rights, identity and citizenship Immigration MedFilm Festival Voices and images archive Youth and the Mediterranean

MOLLEMENT, UN SAMEDI MATIN

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 17 February 2021

Director: Sophie Djama

Country: Francia | Year: 2011 | Lenght: 28′

MedFilm Festival 2018 // Démain, Algerie

One evening in Algiers, Myassa is the victim of a rapist who, however, cannot get an erection. Back home he can’t take a shower because the old pipe doesn’t work. The next morning, Myassa has two goals: to report the violence suffered and to call a plumber. She will come face to face with his attacker …

SOFIA DJAMA

Tags Francia

Freedom of expression Human rights, identity and citizenship Immigration MedFilm Festival Mediterranean and Middle East Voices and images archive Youth and the Mediterranean

THE MEN BEHIND THE WALL

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 17 February 2021

Director: Ines Moldavsky

Country: Israel | Year: 2018 | Duration: 28 ′

An unprecedented look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a dating app. Israeli director Ines Moldavsky tries to meet men the law would forbid her to see. Crossing the border that separates Jerusalem from the West Bank, she finds herself in an unfamiliar physical space. Where do the borders begin and where do they end?

MedFilm Festival 2018 // Rather be Horizontal Women in Film

INES MOLDAVSKI

Born in Buenos Aires in 1990, Ines Moldavsky lives and works in Tel Aviv as a video artist and director of documentaries and experimental films. His works told about sexuality, gender issues and national identity. A graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film School and the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, her Midnight (2015) and Cold Facts (2016) have been presented at various international festivals.

Africa and the Mediterranean Gender equality Human rights, identity and citizenship Immigration MedFilm Festival Voices and images archive Youth and the Mediterranean

Mona Saber

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 1 February 2021

Director: Abdelhaï Laraki

Country: Marocco | Année: 2001 | Durée: 90′

Mona is a young French woman. Her life is shaken when she learns that her father was Moroccan. With a name (Mahmoud Saber), a black and white photo and a love letter addressed to her mother, Mona sets out for Morocco in search of her roots. Her journey between Casablanca and Essaouira will make her discover the different realities of a country that she believed was far away.

MedFilm Festival 2009 // Open Eyes

Tags marocco

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Kayıp Zamanlar

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 1 February 2021

Director: Faysal Soysal

Country: Turchia | Year: 2015 | Lenght: 58′

Hadice Mehmedovic is an Srebrenitsa Mother who lost her husband and two children in Srebrenica Massacre. She came back to Srebrenica after many years to find her children dead body to have their graves. She found them after 10 years but some part of body is missing.

Firstly she did not want to bury like that but in the end she accept to bury them as there was not any hope about the missing parts. She tries to live in her old house with her memory. Mirsad Duratovic lost all of his family member accept his mother during Prijedor Massacre. He was prisoner in concentration camps-Manyecha, Omarska, Trnapolje.. which established by Serbian soldier. He came back from Germany to find corpse of his father.

Last year he found him in Tomashnitsa mass grave and in July He buried him. He tries to live in homeland however everyday he confront the Serbian killer of his family.

MedFilm Festival 2009 // Open Eyes

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Asphalt

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 29 January 2021

Director: Ali Hammoud

Country: Libano/Qatar | Year: 2016 | Lenght: 69′

Asphalt’ delves into the lives of two truck drives on the road, crossing borders, towns and cities, loading and unloading goods. Lebanese truck driver, Derar Nsseir, transports goods across Syria, Jordan and all the way to other countries. Meanwhile, Mohamad Mehani, an Egyptian, drives across Egypt and to the Sudanese border delivering necessities. Yet these two have one thing in common: making a living in ever-changing scenery on an asphalt road that stretches miles across the Arab world. ‘Asphalt’ takes us on a journey to examine closely the subtle relationship between man and machine, and provides a reflection on life from behind the wheel.

MedFilm Festival 2016 // Eyes open

Tags Giordania, LIbano

Childhood in the Mediterranean Environment and climate change Europe and the Mediterranean Human rights, identity and citizenship MedFilm Festival Mediterranean and Middle East Socio-economic issues and migrations Voices and images archive

Bal

Director: Semih Kaplanoğlu

Cast: Bora Altaş (Yusuf); Erdal Besikçioglu (the father Yakup); Tülin Özen (mother Zehra)

Country: Turkey | Year: 2010 | Duration: 104 ‘

Yusuf is a lonely child who lives with his parents in a remote area of a mountain forest. The parent raises bees and the child has great admiration for the one with whom he shares secrets. Yusuf, who can read fluently at home, is stuck at school and cannot get the red plaque that the teacher women as a reward for those who read well. The decrease in the presence of the parents’ appi necessitates trying to place the hives in more remote locations and at higher heights. One day the man will not return, and while his wife goes looking for him, the child will feel prompted to hope for his next reappearance from a sacred reading.

MedFilm Festival 2010 // Amore & Psiche