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From 2014 the Department of the Italian Oriental Studies Institute of La Sapienza University of Rome, in relation to the collaboration activated with the MedFilm Festival – which provides the participation of the best students of the Department in the Interuniversity Jury of the Festival – has activated a series of internships aimed at deepening and develop the issues that emerged during the viewing of the films proposed by the Festival.

The internship therefore provides the participation of students in all the events of the Festival (screenings, meetings with the authors, debates, masterclasses, book presentations, exhibitions etc.) and continues with a series of in-depth activities with the participation of film experts from the festival and professors from the Department, dedicated to sharing and studying together, from different points of view, and stylistic choices of the Festival’s works.

In this way students have the possibility, thanks to the cinema, to discover the links with the study paths they are pursuing.

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Working day on dialogue in the Mediterranean // 14 February 2020

14 Febbraio 2020, h. 10.00 -17.00, Aula 201

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Informe General II. The New Abduction of Europe

Director: Pere Portabella

Country: Spain | Year: 2015 | Duration: 126 ′

The second part of one of Pere Portabella’s historical works, “Informe general sobre unas cuestiones de interés para una proyección pública”, released in 1976 in conjunction with the beginning of the political transition process after Franco’s death. This second Informe comes in the context of a serious systemic crisis of a cultural, economic-financial, political and energy nature. And it is above all a testimony of the way in which civil society is emerging from the crisis with a new protagonism of citizen, which simply consists in the citizens’ rapprochement with politics.

Born in Figueres in 1927, Pere Portabella has maintained his political commitment with all the protest movements against the dictatorship of Francisco Franco since the 1960s. Elected senator in the first democratic elections after Franco’s death, he was also a member of the Parliament of Catalonia. At the head of Films 59, he has produced emblematic films of Spanish cinema such as Carlos Saura’s “I monelli” (1959), Marco Ferreri’s “La carrozzella” (1960) and Luis Buñuel’s Viridiana (1960). As a director, he has been active for over forty years, combining the legacy of avant-garde culture with a language of rupture. The only Spanish artist present at Documenta XI in Kassel in 2002, in 2008 he received an honorary degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. His works have been presented in prestigious international festivals and in museums such as MoMA, Center Pompidou, Reina Sofia Museum and Tate Modern.

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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.





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Director: Farnoosh Samadi, Ali Asgari 





Cast: Fatma Alakus, Cahide Ozel, Valentina Carnelutti 





Country: Italy-France | Year: 2016 | Duration: 14 ‘ 





Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees in Italy. When they visit the hospital, Fatma has to translate what the doctor says to her mother. But he fails and closes in a long silence. 













DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT





“The creation of any work of art is directly linked to the emotion of the artist. His work, in fact, can be a reflection of his feelings and his experiences, not only as an artist but also as a human being. Perhaps the artist discovers part of his life in his works. This short film is intimately linked to our lives. We moved to Italy for university and as migrants we have many experiences that inspired us to make this film. We chose to tell a simple story about communication because this aspect has symbolic meaning for us. We believe that language proficiency plays an important role in communication between humans, but in a context of migration it plays an even more essential role. In this short film, we wanted to represent the universe of migrants and their confrontation with a new life after arriving in a new country. We focused on a migrant child because we believe that children are silent witnesses to what is happening around them. ” Farnoosh Samadi, Ali Asgari





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Director: Pere Portabella





Country: Spagna | Year: 1977 | Lenght: 154′





On November 20, 1975, Francisco Franco died. Finally, Spain can slowly transform itself into a democracy. Thus begins the period called “transición”, which ends for some on 6 December 1978 with the ratification of the Spanish Constitution; for others with the electoral victory of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party in 1982, after a fascist coup attempt the year before.











“Informe general sobre unas cuestiones de interés para una proyección pública” covers the period preceding the nation’s first free elections after Franco, on June 15, 1977 – an event that is at the same time very real, if a little theatrical “, which led to Portabella to approach the project as if it were a piece of fiction. He was certainly not a disinterested subject: Portabella himself was a candidate in the elections, and would have taken part in the drafting of the Constitution of ’78.





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Born in Algeria in 1944, he is a director and screenwriter who studied at the Institut National du Cinéma in Algiers and then at L’Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris. Since his debut film Omar Gatlato he has been directing films in both France and Algeria. His work has screened at numerous international festivals.





Filmography (selection)
1976 Omar Gatlato 1978 Moughamarat Batal 1983 L’Homme Qui Regardait les Fenêtres 1986 Un Amour à Paris 1993 Bab El Oued City 1995 Salut Cousin! 2000 L’autre Monde 2003 Chouchou 2005 Bab El Web 2009 Harragas 2010 Tata Bakhta; TV movie 2012 El-Taïb (The Repentant) 2013 Esstouh (The Rooftops) 2015 Madame Courage 2017 Tahqiq Fel Djenna (Investigating Paradise).





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Masterclass with Costanza Quatriglio (MedFilm Festival 2018)

		


			

		


		
	





	


		


			
		


	


	
	


		


			






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.












		


	


	

		
	


	






	



	


		
			

				
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Insight on Nouri Bouzid MedFilm Festival 2019

		


			

		


		
	





	


		


			
		


	


	
	


		


			






Nouri Bouzid, born in Sfax in 1945, is a Tunisian director. Two of his films (L’Homme de cendres and Making of) won the Carthage Film Days’ Golden Tanit in 1986 and 2006 respectively. From 1968 to 1972 he studied cinema in Belgium. He was assistant director on the set of Le Larron de Pasquale Festa Campanile in 1979. He spent five years in prison for his political beliefs. In 1986, his first feature film, L’Homme de cendres, the story of a young man who remembers the traumas of his childhood shortly before his wedding, was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. His next film, Les Sabots en or, is also from 1988. Bezness, through the portrait of a man played by Abdellatif Kechiche, deals with male prostitution. 





In addition to his films, he participates in the dialogue writing of Halfaouine, the son of the terraces and A summer at the Goulette by Férid Boughedir, The Sultan of the Medina by Moncef Dhouib but also The Silences of the Palace and The Season of Men by Moufida Tlatli. Filmography The Ash Man (1986) gets the Golden Tanit at the 1986 Carthage Film Festival Les Sabots en o (1988) The Gulf War… and after? (1991) Bezness (1992) Tunisiennes (original title Bent Familia) (1997) Poupées d’argile (2002) Making of (2006) Millefeuille (2012) Les Épouvantails (2019) gets the Golden Tanit during the 2006 Carthage Film Festival












		


	


	

		
	


	






	



	


		
			

				
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Masterclass with Babak Karimi (MedFilm Festival 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award)

		


			

		


		
	





	


		


			
		


	


	
	


		


			

Iranian-born actor and editor, son of director and actor Nosrat Karimi and actress Alam Danai. It carries out his activity between Italy, Iran and France. He made his debut in front of the camera at the age of ten, in that is considered the first film of Iranian neorealism, Doroshkechi (The coachman, 1971). The same year he moved to Italy where he studied cinema specializing in shooting and editing. For fifteen years he devoted himself to the making of documentaries as an operator and editor. In 1991, in collaboration with the painter Mahshid Mussavi, he brought to Italy the first Iranian film officially distributed in commercial theaters, Bashu, the little foreigner by Bahram Beyzai. In the following years he worked on interconnection and promotion between Italy and Iranian cinema, writing the Italian dialogues for the films of Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf, Panahi, Jalili, Farhadi and collaborating as a consultant with various festivals and reviews. As an editor he has worked with Abbas Kiarostami, Babak Payami, Vera Belmont, Pasquale Scimeca, Maurizio Zaccaro, Gianfranco Pannone and others. He has been a lecturer in editing at the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome and the Accademia dell’Immagine de L’Aquila. In 2011 he starred in the film A Separation by Asghar Farhadi (winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film) winning the Silver Bear for Best Actor.
The partnership with Farhadi will also continue with the director’s second film, The Past. In both cases, Karimi oversaw the dubbing and personally dubbed his characters in Italian. In 2016 he starred in the film winner of the Prix du Scénario at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival The Client, also directed by Farhadi. Other films: Fish Dead by Ruholla Hejazi (Iran 2016); Noces by Stephan Straker (Belgium-France-Luxemburg 2016); Invasion by Shahram Mokri (Iran 2017); As long as there is Prosecco there is Hope by Antonio Padovan (Italy-2017); The Vertical Line by Mattia Torre (Italy 2018); Gaze (short) by Farnoosh Samadi (Iran 2017); A Nameless Story by Roberto Ando ‘(Italy-2018); Delay (short) by Ali Asgari (Iran – 2018); Il Seems My Son by Costanza Quatriglio (Italy 2018); of The Role (short) by Farnoosh Samadi (Iran 2018); Iron Deficiency of Azadeh Abadpur (Iran 2019); Yalda by Massoud Bakhshi (Iran, France, Germany, Luxemburg 2019); Children of Giuseppe Bonito (Italy 2020); Winter by Giulio Mastromauro (Italy 2020); Careless Crime by Shahram Mokri (Iran 2020), We Have To by Reza Dormishian (Iran-2020), Cinema Shahre Ghesse by Keyvan Alimohammadi and Omid Bonakdar (Iran, 2020), The Life Ahed (La Vita Davanti a Se) by Edoardo Ponti (Italy-USA, 2020) (see complete bio attached)





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