LEBANON a movie by MAHER ABI-SAMRA Maher ABI-SAMRA returns to the quarter of Ramel el Ali, in Beirut’s southern suburb, where he grew up. Settled in the 50s by a mostly Shiite community which came from the villages of southern Lebanon and the Beka Valley, this quarter grew on the rubble of the civil war. By[…]
PALESTINE/TUNISIA a movie by YVES LOISEAU If Arafat’s public image is familiar around the world, his personality remains largely unknown. At a turning point in his political career, a film crew was authorised to enter the small circle of his close collaborators. Using exclusive filmed archives belonging to the P.L.O., this is a funda mental, durably[…]
FRANCE a movie by JEAN ARLAUD ” Your eyes bigger than your ears”, that’s what you’ve got to have to learn the trade, of fisherman from the salt banks of Hyères. Afilm about fishing? No, a film on the mental and material universe of fishermen . FESTIVALS Prix de la mission du Patrimoine Ethnologique (Ministère de[…]
TUNISIA • 42′ a film by PIERRE-YVES MOULIN A trip through northern Tunisia, between Hamamet and Cape White, in the heart of autumn. The hotels are empty, but the days are still warm and inviting. This is a travel sketchbook, drawn page by page as the jouney continues and new situations are encountered, revealing little by[…]
RAJASTHAN • 40′ a film by MICHEL MARRE I traveled the road to Rajasthan to find Gassi Khan, a friend and master of “crotala”, blades of wood, the ancestors of castanets. After Jaipur, the capital, and its brass bands, I went south into the Jaisalmer Desert to live and play music with the itinerant musicians of Khan’s community,[…]
CUBA a movie by CECILE PATINGRE Havana, May 1st, 1992 Cuba is passing through one of the most critical moments of its history. May First is a traditional indicator of the situation and gives an idea of the combativeness or weariness of a people confronted to the thousands of difficulties experienced in daily life. Views of[…]
CHILE • 100′ a film by PATRICIO GUZMAN « I recall September 11, 1973, that dark day when America instigated a coup d’état to bring down the pacifist and democratic revolution that was taking place in a faraway country, Chile, my homeland. Salvador Allende, the President of the Republic, that “son of a bitch‚” as Richard Nixon[…]
CAMBODIA 94′ a movie by RITHY PANH After having fled Pol Pot, Rithy Panh, a 15 year old Cambodian finds refuge at the Mairut camp in Thailand, in 1979. Ten years later, now a filmmaker, he returns to the camps to film the daily life of this threatened people. The peoples he meets, eaten away by[…]
UGANDA/USA • 84′ a film by PETER CHAPPELL The future of many developing countries is largely dependent on an institution which is already fifty years old, the World Bank. Criticized and questioned as to its utility, and confronted with numerous setbacks, the Bank is going through a perplexing time in regard to deciding what new strategies[…]
SOUTH AFRICA/FRANCE • 60′ a movie by SIPHAMANDLA BONGWANA / JERRY OBAKENG GAEGANE / STANFORD GIBSON / NDUDUZO SHANDU I was born in a shack in Kliptown, at the end of apartheid. I’ve grown up with hope for a better life, for a real house. With three other young filmakers from Soweto, we have tracked[…]