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This year’s three films in roughcut at San Sebastian’s Cinema in Motion completion finance showcase, which unspools Monday September 21, are all by Arab filmmakers who live a twilight existence between their native countries and Europe.
Sales agents and other industry execs traditionally flock to the screenings since they offer a vital sneak preview of upcoming films capable maybe of achieving fest play and some international distribution.
31-year old, Iraqi-born filmmaker Mohamed Al-Daradji fled to the Netherlands in 1995, after his cousin was abducted during Saddam Hussein’s regime.
He returned to his war-torn homeland in 2004 to shoot his acclaimed first feature “Ahlaam?” (Dreams) with “no electricity, no petrol, no money, no food and often nowhere to stay”, surviving capture by armed militia and the U.S. forces.
In 2008 he went back to Iraq to shoot his Cinema in Motion pic, “In the Sands of BabylonI” that profiles the courageous Iraqi resistance movement in 1991 struggling against Saddam’s brutal clampdown.
The € 0.73 million ($1.1 million) feature is produced by Leeds- based Human Film and is seeking € 0.32 million in completion finance.
45-year old Cairo-born female director, Iman Kamel has been based in Berlin since 1987 where she studied at the Film Academy.
Her poetic, experimental films mix documentary and fiction - focusing on the life of women in the Arab world.
“Nomad’s Home” is her debut feature, a $0.15 million low budget pic that links two Arab women -the director herself, returning to Cairo, and Bedouin entrepreneur Selema Gabali.
During the film, and notwithstanding their countless differences, both women realise they share an essential nomadic existence.
37-year old Palestinian filmmaker, Kamal Aljafari graduated from the Cologne Media Arts Academy in 2003 and now lives between Germany and his hometown of Ramallah.
Like Al-Daradji his films revolve around his sense of shock at returning to his devastated homeland.
In $0.5 million “Port of Memory”, Aljafari mixes documentary with fiction, as he explores the semi-ruins of the city of Jaffa and the manner in which the surviving Palestinian community clings onto tradition in order to remain sane.
Dedicated to films at a roughcut stage, from the Arab world and Portuguese-speaking African countries, Cinema in Motion by a plethora of bodies including Fribourg and Amiens Film Festivals, France’s CNC, Portugal’s ICA, Mactari mixing auditorium and Titra subtitling.
Martin Dale
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