- Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors, researchers, cultural programmers.
- Day: 16-17 of September 2020
- Time: 22.00
- Duration: 90min
- Location : Sociedade Harminia Eborense – Evora
- Registration: Only members of SHE. It is possible to register for membership
- Notes: Presentation of short films followed by debate
IKHWENE («FRATERNIDAD») (16 of September 2020)
Mohamed is a hardened pastor living in the Tunisian countryside with his wife and two children. When his eldest son, Malek, returns from Syria with a young woman wearing a nicab, he is deeply disturbed and begins to distrust. The growing tension between father and son reaches the point of no return.
Túnez, 2018 (25´)
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Meryam Joobeur (Tunisy)
Academy Award nominated Tunisian-American director, based in Montréal, Canada. Her work includes both documentary and fiction. Her short films Gods, Weeds and Revolutions (2012) and Born in the Maelstrom (2017), starring Sasha Lane, screened in dozens of national and international festivals. Her academy nominated short Brotherhood (2018) screened at 150+ festivals and won 70 international prizes.
She is co-owner of the Tunisia based production company Instinct Bleu with producer Sarra Ben Hassen.
UN METIER BIEN (16 of September 2020)
When his mother dies, Hakim, a young Frenchman of North African origin, decides to find a good job and to sort himself out. His neighborhood does not offer much and Hakim ends up selling hijabs in a shop run by fervent Muslims..
Algery/France 2015 (24´)
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Farid Bentoumi (Algery)
Farid Bentoumi is a Franco-Algerian director, screenwriter and actor. He notably wrote and directed Good Luck Algeria, which was inspired by the participation of his brother Noureddine Maurice Bentoumi in the Turin 2006 Olympics. After having been an actor, he turned to documentary and then fiction [1]. Between 2011 and 2015, he wrote and then directed Good Luck Algeria, which was inspired by the participation of his brother Noureddine Maurice Bentoumi in the Turin 2006 Olympic Games and more generally by the history of his family [2]. With this film, his desire is to use a partly fictitious sports story to talk about themes such as integration, nationality or transmission between generations. “Beyond the history of the sporting challenge, your film is mainly about identity, immigration..
Une place dans l’avion (16 of September 2020)
A radio station announces that a special plane bound for the United States has been made available to anyone who wants to emigrate, just ask, there are no other conditions, but places are limited. Moussa, who has always dreamed of leaving, decides to give it a try.
Sénégal, 2016 (17´)
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Khadidiatou Sow (Senegal)
Khadidiatou Sow was born in 1978 in Dakar, Senegal. Graduated from the Fine Arts School of Dakar, she began a career as a painter and created her gallery / studio. In 2004, she decided to work in the cinema industry. She started working as a scriptwriter, costume designer and assistant director. After a training in Paris (Varan Ateliers / 2007), she started directing her first short films. In 2016, One Seat in the Plane was selected at Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, and won the Best African Short Film Award ex-aequo (AMAA 2017, Nigeria), the Jury Special Mention (Écrans Noirs 2017, Cameroon) and the Jury Mention (Nouakshort Film 2017, Mauritania). With this film, Khadidiatou Sow represented Senegal at Clap Ivoire 2017. She is currently preparing a new series of paintings and drawings.
La Laine Sur Le Dos (17 of September 2020)
Two policemen stop an old truck full of sheep driven by an older man accompanied by his grandson on a road in the Tunisian desert. In order to continue on their way to the market, they will have to accept a curious deal …
Túnez, 2016 (16´)
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Lotfi Achour (Tunisy)
Lofti is a Tunisian writer, producer and director for theater and cinema. He is the author of more than 25 theater productions on different stages (London, Paris, Festival In d’Avignon, Tunis, Carthage, Hammamet, Byblos, Kinshasa, Yaoundé…). His last show was co-produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company for the 2012 Olympic Games London. In cinema, he produced three award-winning shorts presented at dozens of festivals, including Père nominated the 2017 Césars and La laine Sur Le Dos in official competition at Cannes in 2016,[ and nominated for the 2017 Academy Awards. In 2016, he directed and produced his first feature film, Demain Dès L’Aube.
IL PLEUT SUR OUAGA (17 of September 2020)
It’s raining on Ouaga. It’s the season of love, and the country is rebuilding after the revolution. Alpha is about to leave his country to join his French girlfriend, but finds that leaving isn’t so easy. His meeting with Leila opens his eyes.
Burkina Faso, 2017 (24.36´)
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Fabien Dao (Burkina Faso, France)
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LES PASTÈQUES DU CHEIKH (17 of September 2020)
Sheikh Taher is a godly and respected imam. He agrees to pray over the remains of a woman he does not know, but his act of piety proves to be one sin too many and will precipitate the undermining of his power by Hamid, his ambitious and Machiavellian young underling..
Tunez, 2018 (23´)
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Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisy)
A Tunisian director born in 1977, Kaouther Ben Hania studied at the Tunis School of Arts and Cinema and the Fémis in Paris, before directing her first professional short film, Me, my Sister and the Thing (“Moi, ma sœur et la chose”), in 2006. That same year she also joined the Al Jazeera Documentary team, where she worked for one year. After directing a second short film (Wooden Hand (“Peau de colle”), 2013), two documentaries (Imams Go to School (“Les imams vont à l’école”) , 2010; Zaineb Hates the Snow (“Zaineb takrahou ethelj”), 2016) and a docu-fiction (The Blade of Tunis (“Le challat de Tunis”), 2014), Kaouther Ben Hania directed her first fiction feature film, Beauty and the Dogs (“Aala Kaf Ifrit”), which was shown at numerous festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival in 2017.
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