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The 6th Cinema in Motion, which unspools today at the San Sebastián Festival,
includes two pics from Iraq, one from Jordan and a fourth from Morocco.
Eligible films for this singular competitive showcase are helmed by filmmakers from the Maghreb, Portuguese-speaking African countries and Arab states. At the event, directors and producers will pitch their rough cut projects for completion coin.
The third feature of leading Moroccan documaker Leila Kilani, On the Plank turns on the Free Zone, on the Atlantic coast, south of Tangiers. It is “a symbol for global world sub-contracting. It is Europe on Moroccan land, on African land….It is open to fantasy,” Kilani has said.
An Iraq-U.K co-production, Atia and Mohamed Al-Daradji’s Iraq-set House for Sale depicts 32 kids living in a crammed, tiny room.The inmates are split roughly between supporters of Real Madrid and Barcelona soccer clubs. They are also all orphans, victims of war and sectarian violence.
The Al-Daradjis say they hope their film will raise international awareness of the problem of Iraq’s orphans. A second Iraq production, Jano Rosebiani’s Chaplin Of The Mountains, has two cinema students, a TV Kurdish star and a women’s rights activist, screening Chaplin films in remote Iraq villages.
Mountains and Sale both address a post-invasion Iraq, which doesn’t imply a lack of humor or even optimism but include an optimistic humorous tone.
A Jordan-Netherlands co-production, This Is My Picture When I Was Dead, is directed by documentarian Mahmoud al Massad and explores the Palestinian conflict through the murder of 4-years old Bashir and his father. Picture was also selected by the Dubai Film Connection Fest co-production market.
Al Massad, Al Daradji and Kilani have already competed at previous editions of Cinema in Motion. Al Massad won the 4th edition with Recycle, and Mohamed Al-Daradji with In the Sands of Babylon in 2009.
The four movies receive an invitation only screening. Cinema in Motion 6 awards will be unveiled Monday evening. Completion finance is put up by by France’s CNC, Mac’Tari mixing studio, the Dubai, Amiens and Fribourg festivals and Titra Film.
Emilio MAYORGA
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