Author: Veronica Flora

Study day of the “Equal and different” internship Iso-Medfilm Festival 2020-21″

Post author By Veronica Flora
Post date 11 February 2021

The Department of Oriental Studies – La Sapienza and MEDFILM FESTIVAL present the Internship Study Day “Equal and different: Iso-MedFilm Festival 2020-2021”. During the meeting, the website of the “Voices and Images of Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean” project and the Medfilm Festival archive at the DISO Library will be presented.

The webinar will be held on the zoom platform, Monday 15 February 2021, from 2.00pm to 6.30pm Participation is open to all stakeholders Registration with a nominative request email at the address webinartirocinio@gmail.com

Program

Introduction: Franco D’Agostino, Director of the ISO Department; Ginella Vocca, President of MedFilm Festival-MFF; Laura Guazzone, Internship Manager.

h. 14.15-14.25 Presentation of the VOCIMED.IT WEB SITE of the Third Mission Iso project “Voices and images from dialogue intercultural in the Mediterranean ”, L. Guazzone, Iso Sapienza and V. Flora, MFF.

FIRST PART (moderated by Guazzone, directed by Flora)

h. 14.30-15.00 “Human Rights” Theme: Human Rights in Contemporary Islam. An open debate – Francesco Zappa, Iso Sapienza.

h. 15.00-15.10 Debate

h. 15.10-15.45 Theme “cultural dialogue”: The dialogue between cinema and contemporary Arab literature: the Egyptian microcosm – Ada Barbaro, Iso Sapienza.

h.15.45-15.55 Debate

h. 16.00- 16.30 MEDFILM FESTIVAL SHORT Debate

SECOND PART (moderated by Zappa, directed by Barbaro)

h. 16.30-17.00 “Political dialogue” theme: The Mediterranean that unites and divides: contemporary history of an idea – Laura Guazzone, Iso Sapienza.

h. 17.00-17.100 Debate

h. 17.10-17.40 Gender issue theme: Body, awareness and freedom. Paths in Mediterranean cinema – Veronica Flora, MFF

17.40-17.50 Debate

h. 17.50-18.30 What intercultural dialogue in the Mediterranean? Concluding remarks and debate

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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.

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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.

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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.

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