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Heritales @ SHE – Evora – Portugal (3rd of December 2020)

Sociedade Harmonia Eborense & Heritales,  Programa do cine-tertúlia, ciclo: “O património e a cidade”

Created in 1849, the Harmonia Eborense Society becomes a scenario where it projects its own material heritage.
This session opens the cycle “The heritage and the city”, which shows films that use the historical buildings of Évora as a backdrop for their plots, in most cases in an intentional way, as seen in the ones shown here.
In this first session, it is about, on the one hand, the replacement of the film made by Conde, Mabey & Reynolds and on the other hand, it talks about the pieces that derive from the Takis team and also from heritage volunteers.
The shorts will be followed by a conversation about how to disseminate heritage and ways of creating a central role for historic buildings whose social mission linked to sociability seems to be willing to disappear, like this space that welcomes us.
This activity is in line with the ideals of the Heritales project, which proposes to leave the format of the traditional conference existing in the most classic debates, with the intention of placing cultural heritage in the main topic of conversation and the interests of citizens. This cycle revolves around some lesser-known historic spaces in this city that was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site for more than three decades.

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  • Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors, researchers, cultural programmers.
  • Day: 3 of December 2020
  • Time: 19.00
  • Duration: 90min
  • Location : Sociedade Harminia Eborense –  Evora
  • Registration: Only members of SHE. It is possible to register for membership
  • Notes: Film projection followed by debate by M. Zozaya , Takis, Fernando Mendes

“The 5th Step”, 2005, 16’. Dir. Mariana Conde, Donna Mabey & Josephine Reynolds.

“Cópia criativa” 2020, 7’ . Dir. Takis.

“Making-off de um filme” .
Fotografias. Dir. Jorge Fanico.
Film Making Off. Dir. Maria Zozaya & Fernando Mendes. Ante-estreia.
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Ventana|Janela, FCAT & Heritales @ SHE – Evora – Portugal (16th -17th of September 2020)

Sociedade Harmonia Eborense, Heritales,  FCAT (African Film Festival of Tarifa) & Ventana|Janela

Heritales & FCAT present three amazing shorts at the SHE (Sociedade Harmonia Eborense in Evora – Portugal, that show realities of African cultural diversity, included in the “Rede Ventana | Janela” with the support of Ministry of the Presidency of the Junta de Andalucía

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  • 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´)

Link FCAT

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.

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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´)

Link FCAT

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..

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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´)

Link FCAT

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.

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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´)

Link FCAT

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.

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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´)

Link FCAT

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´)

Link FCAT

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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FCAT & Heritales @ Evora – Portugal (22nd-23rd of February 2019)

Training for cultural programmers and managers for the visibility of African cinema

African cinematographies are still the most unknown in the world, despite the fact that more and more awards and prizes are awarded in the main film festivals of the world (from Berlin to Venice, passing through Cannes), being applauded not only by the public but also by the directors and programmers of festivals. This ignorance is even more difficult to understand in societies that seem to have forgotten the historical relationships and links with African cultures: if on one hand the culture and traditions of Andalusia and the Algarve owe so much to their historical relations with the Maghreb, on the other hand, we must not forget that Alentejo, Algarve and all of Portugal have been enriched culturally and economically by the former Portuguese-speaking African colonies. The project “TRAINING OF CULTURAL PROGRAMMERS AND MANAGERS FOR THE VISIBILITY OF THE CINEMAS OF AFRICA: CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION BETWEEN THE EUROREGION CINEMATOGRAPHIC FESTIVALS AAA” aims to create stable links of collaboration between cultural entities of the AAA Euroregion in the cinematographic field to promote dialogue and cross-border cooperation. For this purpose, a joint work is proposed on the promotion in the cinematographic contests of the AAA Euroregion of the African cinematographic films and their diaspora. The work will be carried out in a training process aimed at programmers, managers and directors of film festivals in the Algarve, Alentejo and Andalusia, which foresees meetings (a preliminary one in Évora on February 22 and 23 and the final in Tarifa on the 29th of April to May 1), film viewings (on-line delivery from November to February, on-site in Tarifa), study of the history of African cinematography (on-line submission from November to February), meetings with experts and filmmakers Africans (in Évora and Tarifa). The project is organized by the association Al Tarab, creator of the annual African Film Festival of Tarifa and Tangier. Several directors and programmers of festivals of the AAA Euroregion are involved in the project: Paula Duque, director of the Marvão International Film Festival – PERIPERIAS (Alentejo), María Zozaya Montes, director of the International Festival of Cinema on Patrimony – HERITALES (Alentejo) , Carla Magro Dias, director of the International Festival of Curtas-metragens of Evora – FIKE (Alentejo), Marina Lanza, programmer of the International Film Festival of Lagoa – ALGARES (Algarve), José Ramón Martínez, co-director of the International Short Film Festival and Alternative Cinema of Benalmádena – FICCAB (Andalusia), David Sánchez, programmer of the International Short Film Festival in San Roque – FICSAN (Andalusia), Ana Isapel Pozo, programmer of the Festival Corto Genial of Puente Genil (Andalusia).

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Program (Spanish)

Gaetano Gualdo

Degree in Hispanic and Anglophone Literature from the University of Verona (Italy) and Master in Audiovisual Translation from the University of Cádiz (Spain). Member of the organization of the African Film Festival-FCAT since 2006, he has worked as coordinator of the Festival’s parallel activities. He has also been an event promoter and cultural projects within and outside the Spanish geography (Morocco, Mozambique, Equatorial Guinea, Paraguay, etc.). He has worked in the organization of different international festivals in Argentina and Chile.

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Mane Cisneros Manrique

She holds a PhD in Ethnology from the EHESS (École en Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Paris. Degree in Geography and History from the Complutense University of Madrid. Master’s Degree in Cultural Anthropology from the National Itztapalapa University of Mexico City. She is president of Al Tarab and founder and director of the African Film Festival of Córdoba-FCAT. He has been a juror at numerous international and African film festivals around the world, member of the ICAA cinematographic aid commission and is a Knight of Arts and Letters of the French Republic.

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Marion Berger

Graduate in Art History and Film, Marion has worked in the programming department of the Spanish Film Library before joining the FCAT programmer in 2007, a position that has led her to specialize in African theaters. He collaborates punctually with specialized magazines and has coordinated and drafted part of the African Notebooks of Casa África. She has also given different conferences about African cinemas in festivals and universities (University of Seville, University of Brasilia, Political Film Festival of Buenos Aires, Spanish Cultural Center of Lima, Zinebi, etc.).

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Federico Olivieri

Bachelor of Journalism (US), MA in Global Media and Post-National Communication (SOAS, University of London) and PhD in the Pablo de Olavide University (Seville). Member of the organization of the African Film Festival-FCAT since its foundation and promoter of cultural and academic projects between Europe and Africa. In recent years he has coordinated different training activities for the promotion of African film criticism: Talent Press at the Durban International Film Festival – South Africa; first edition of the Course-Workshop of film criticism in the FCAT; and the first film critic workshop of Cultura Dakar – Senegal.

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Heritales @ CAE of Navalcarnero – Spain (15th of February 2019)

Sounds of Kibera

In Kibera (Nairobi), one of the biggest slums of the world, Simon, Philip and Geoffrey have created the collective MADE IN KIBERA (MIK). Their goal is to unite the numerous artists of Kibera and provide them with a space inside the tough conditions of the slum where they can grow. MIK is constructing a professional music and video studio that will help the local artists record their work in higher quality and, in order to promote it, they are preparing a massive event that is already bringing together all Kibera artists.

  • Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors
  • Day: 15 of February 2019
  • Time: 20.00
  • Duration: 90 min
  • Location: Auditorio del Centro de Artes Escénicas de Navalcarnero (Spain)
  • Presence of the director: no
  • Registration: Not required
  • Extra Activities: Tertulia debate: María Zozaya, co-director of th Heritales – International Heritage Film Festival, since 2016 and Doctor and researcher in History CIDEHUS. Rocío Royo, Lda. en Derecho y gestora cultural of the  Espacio C.
    Aldera Velasca    , Violista coordinator of the project DaLaNota and president of the platform REDOMI, web of organization musicsociology. Daniel Lovecchio, Co-diretor of the teatre TylTyl (Navalcarnero)

Luis Lanchares Bardaji

Luis studied Audiovisual Communication Bachelor (Madrid) and an MA in Social Communication (UK). He participated in the creation of two webseries, however, he always focused in the use of communication to create impact and change. He has worked for several NGO’s creating audiovisual materials, as well as being chief of communication for KUBUKA NGO in Kenya. Luis is a strong believer in the use of visuals for social change and KIBERA SAUTI, his first feature documentary, is the first time he will use the cinematographic language as one more ally for social communication. Nowadays he lives in Tenerife, where he mainly works in the camera department, while he’s preparing his next film about a group of acrobats from Zambia.

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HERITALES @ Casa da América Latina – Lisbon (3d of October 2018)

The Sound of Bells + Lecture

Honorable Mention Heritales – Short Documentary 2017

In Minas Gerais, Brazil, bell sounds set the pace of life of the residents of the historic cities, announcing time for work, rest, pray, and celebrate. Over 40 different bell rings are known in the region, and were nominated as Brazilian Intangible Cultural Heritage. The bell ringers, characters from the top of the towers, are known to have transformed bell rings over the centuries from their colonial origins and have mixed them with the strong African heritage in Brazil. The documentary is a poetic representation of religious experience in everyday life. The feature film The Sound of Bells is part of an expanded documentary project, which is pioneering the use of new media for the dissemination of the intangible heritage. Digital technology can support increased appreciation of cultural heritage, strengthen dialogue and understanding among cultures. How do younger generations react, interact or create new ways to express their cultural heritage? The project works with the combination of memory and new technologies, sound mapping and community engagement through a transmedia production that includes an online multimedia platform with sound cartography and innovative content, an interactive documentary, audiovisual public interventions on churches facades and an award-winning audio guide app for mobile devices.

Category: Documentary – Duration: 70′ – Spoken Language: Portuguese – Subtitle Available: English – Spanish – Production Date: 16-07-2016 – Producer/Production Entity: Estúdio CRUA

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  • Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors
  • Day: Wednesday, 3d of October
  • Time: 18:30
  • Duration: 120 min
  • Location: Casa da América Latina
  • Presence of the director: Yes
  • Registration: This activity  does not requires booking. But the limit of participants is 100.
  • Extra Activities: Lecture before the projection

Marcia Mansur

Marcia  is a producer and documentary filmmaker and has collaborated with institutions such as “Video in the Villages”, aimed at supporting indigenous people through audiovisual and “UnionDocs”, the Brooklyn Center for Documentary Arts. Her short films have been screened in festivals such as Contro-Sguardi International Festival of Anthropological Cinema (Italy, 2010), and awarded Honorable Mention in Festivals such as Filme Etnografico do Recife (Brazil, 2010).

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Marina Thomé

Marina Thomé is a documentary filmmaker and photographer. She holds a master´s degree in Creative Documentary (UAB – Barcelona, Spain). Marina is the co-author and director of photography for the documentary “La Ciudad Tipográfica”, shot in Barcelona and presented in international film festivals such as Tirana International Film Festival in Albania, and co-directed the first Spanish interactive web documentary “SEAT: Shadows of the Progress”.

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