Catalogue 2016

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Catalogue 2016

9th Cairo International
Women's Film Festival
27 February - 3 March 2016
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Contents
6
Introduction
9
International Panorama
25
Caravan of Arab Iberoamerican Films
39
Spanish Short Films
47
Dance and Cinema
53
Tribute to a Cineaste: Pirjo Honkasalo
61
Country in Focus: Denmark
69
Guest Festival:
Dortmund - Cologne International Womne's Film Festival
73
Homage to Nabeeha Lotfi
77
Side Events
4
Index
10
Still the Water
42
Village
11
Until I Lose My Breath
43
Stella
12
Nena
44
Marceline Blurr
13
Whisper from a Birch
45
The Right Place
14
My Little Vietnam
48
One Million Steps
15
Frailer
49
Horizons
16
In The Sky
50
Czech Swan
17
Dinola
51
The Need to Dance
18
Ventoux
54
250 Grammes: A Radioactive Testament
19
Wild Women
55
Flame Top
20
Momentum
56
Fire Eater
21
Some of Us
57
Ito - A Diary of an Urban Priest
22
Fatima
58
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
26
Speed Sisters
59
Concrete Night
27
Tea Time
62
Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars
28
In This Land Lay Graves Mine
63
In Your Hands
29
Seeing the Unseen
64
In Light of the Revolution
30
Coffee for All Nations
65
Creation
31
The Future is Ours
66
Front View of My Father
32
Trip Along Exodus
67
Malek Means Angel
33
Haunted
70
The Visitor
34
Suspended Time
71
Family Business
35
Strong Will
74
Because Roots Do not Die
36
A Time to Rest
78
Master Class with Pirjo Honkasalo
40
Me, the President
79
Master Class with Annette K. Olesen
41
Christmas Speech
80
One Minute Workshop Film
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Festival Team
Director of the Festival
Amal Ramsis
Website
www.cairowomenfilmfest.com
Festival Coordinator
Ruth Jurado
Contact
[email protected]
Media and Public Relations
Reham Ramzy
Special Thanks
Carlos Vázquez
Anja Put
Marja Pallassalo
Rasmus Steen
Johanna Keller
André Naus
Luca Bertoli
Shaymaa Gabr
Maya Sato
María Venegas
Ghada Sherbini
Arab Lotfi
Malek Khouri
Cristina Alba
Greta Frankenfeld
Leire Pascual
Silke Johanna
William Sidhom
Youssef Ramez
Dorte Zaalouk
Nady Abd Elsayed
Sami Creta
Rasha Shafik
Kirolus Naguib
Cristin Emil
Nahed Fawzi
Shadi Mashak
Marta Durán
Helge Schwache
Basel Ramsis
Salma Shukrallah
Mohamed Waked
Maha Lotfi
Nora Abu Samra
Necati Sonmez
Heba Rifaat
Miriam Ortz
The participants of the One Minute Workshops
Translation and Subtitles
Khaled Youssef
Shadi Faarid
Sherif Mashak
Bárbara Azaola
Poster Designer
Doaa Al Adl
Language Revision
Hazel Haddon
Interpreting
Randa Ali
Documentation
Irene Bartolomé
Elizabeth Oliver
Social Media Management
Hala Ahmed
Guest Coordination
Ruth Jurado
Catalogue Designer
Volcan Olmez
Technical Support
Ramez Sadek
Typesetting and Print
LUCA Advertising
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Introduction
Just a few days before International Women’s Day, which it celebrates, comes the
ninth Cairo International Women's Film Festival.
For months and months, our team has been working to bring to the audience a fine selection of Arabic and international films made by women from all around the world.
CIWFF is an annual film festival where attendance is absolutely free of charge for
everyone, and all films are screened with Arabic and English subtitles for greater inclusivity; moreover, the Winning Film is chosen by the audience to be given the one
and only award. Every year, the festival is held in Cairo. It also roams other Arab and
international cities such as Berlin (Germany), Bilbao and Granada (Spain), Ljubljana
(Slovenia), La Paz (Bolivia), Lima (Peru), Buenos Aires (Argentina), San Salvador (El Salvador), Managua (Nicaragua), Oaxaca and Mexico City (Mexico), San José (Costa
Rica), Cartagena de Indias (Columbia), Asunción (Paraguay), Havana (Cuba), Rabat
and Tangiers (Morocco), Damascus (Syria), Amman (Jordan) and Beirut (Lebanon). In
its eighth edition, it was held in the Egyptian cities of Assiut, Minya and Alexandria.
Over the past years, our audience has warmed our hearts with their high turnout,
always crowning our efforts with success, awarding the Audience Award to the most
innovative, risky and visually experimental of films and proving wrong the claim made
by those who flood the markets with commercial films – "this is what the audience
wants" – a claim we find quite presumptuous and insulting to the Egyptian public.
Year after year, interest in CIWFF increases, leading to more expansion and further
improvements.
This year, we bring you yet another edition, taking more audacious stances with a
wider selection, a larger number of guest filmmakers, more Q&A sessions, discussions
and master classes – and complete trust that our audience is ready to go further and
explore new cinema, new approaches, new subjects, new depths and new adventures.
Amal Ramsis
Festival Founder and Director
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International Panorama
Still the Water
Futatsume no Mado
Japan/France, 2014, 119’
Director:
Naomi Kawase
Language:
Japanese
On the subtropical Japanese island of Amami-Oshima, traditions about nature remain eternal. During a night of traditional
dances under a full moon, 16-year-old Kaito discovers a dead
body floating in the sea. His girlfriend Kyoko will attempt to
help him understand this mysterious discovery.
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
COMME DES CINEMAS
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre,
Saturday 27 February, 7 pm
Goethe Institute,
Tuesday 1 March, 5 pm
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Until I Lose My Breath
Nefesim Kesilene Kakar
Turkey/Germany, 2015, 94’
Director:
Emine Emel Balci Tuncel
Language:
Turkish
Subtitless:
Arabic, English
Serap is a quiet but hot-headed adolescent who is working
long hours as a runner in a cramped clothing workshop. Fed
up with her abusive brother-in-law and detached sister, the
only thing that keeps Serap going is the hope of moving into
an apartment with her father, who is a long-distance truck
driver. Since her father is quite indifferent to Serap’s wishes,
however, she decides to take matters in her own hands.
Production:
PROLOG FILM
Contact:
[email protected]
Goethe Institute,
Sunday 28 February, 9 pm
Falaki Theatre,
Thursday 3 March, 5 pm
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Nena
Netherlands/Germany, 2014, 90’
Director:
Saskia Diesing
Language:
German, Dutch
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
KeyFilm
The film tells the story of 16-year-old Nena, who is confronted
with the suicide attempt of her disabled father. At the same
time, she falls head-over-heels in love for the first time in her
life, with Carlo, whose father has just outed himself. Away
from the prying eyes of the adults - who struggle with failed
marriages, blossoming love and insufferable physical decline
- they push the boundaries of their friendship, love and sexuality. But while discovering her own lust for life, Nena realises that
her father’s existence is becoming more and more unbearable.
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre,
Goethe Institute,
Wednesday 2 March, 9 pm
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Whisper from a Birch
Shepot Berezy
Russia/Colombia, 2015, 15’
Director:
Doiana Montenegro García
Language:
Russian
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
One picture. That’s the only thing the filmmaker brought with
her, along with her luggage, on a trip to Russia. She took the
picture of her 83-year-old grandmother, Bertha, taken on
Mother’s Day. She was smiling without being aware of the
camera. She doesn’t even know where Russia is on the map,
but being far from Colombia, the filmmaker writes her a letter
from the other side of the world.
Production:
VGIK Russian State University
of Cinematography (Russia),
Cinema Co. (Colombia)
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre,
Artistic Creativity Centre,
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My Little Vietnam
Vietnam-sur-Lot
France, 2014, 63’
Director:
Nadege Lobato de Faria
Language:
French
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
La Chambre Rouge
Contact:
[email protected]
CAFI in the south of France; a refugee camp for repatriated
French people from Indochina. The filmmaker’s Eurasian family arrived here in 1956, after the French defeat in Indochina.
This place may be destroyed, although 150 people still live
there. The filmmaker returns to this place of memory, in order
to recover her Asian culture. She realises that some teenagers
live here without knowing their history. Their elders don’t want
to relate bad memories to them. Step by step, she seeks to
understand Eurasian history and confront herself with her own
story, with one question: what will happen to her ancestor’s
culture after the destruction of this place? What will she pass
on to her children?
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Frailer
Brozer
Netherlands, 2014, 80’
Director:
Mijke de Jong
Language:
Dutch
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
PRPL
When her lung cancer is diagnosed as terminal, Muis gathers her dearest friends, Ted, Carlos and Lian. Together the
women come up with strategies to make the best of the time
Muis has left: they garden and dance, share food, drinks and
prescription marijuana. But the differences between their four
personalities surface when they try to prepare for the coming
irrevocable loss. With great humour and sincerity, the filmmaker draws an intimate portrait and captures the way we face
death, in a unique and unforgettable way.
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre,
Goethe Institute,
15
In The Sky
Li Ezmani
Turkey, 2014, 7’
Director:
Ozlam Goler
Language:
Kurdish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Robin searches, searches with smoke, Robin searches, searches with birds, Robin searches, searches with fear, searches
with hope. He made a kite with Adar. Searches and searches.
In the blue sky with fear, with hope. With one letter, a thousand looks, Robin searches for his father who was assassinated
when he was in his mother’s womb.
Production:
municipality Aram Tigran
Contact:
[email protected]
Goethe Institute,
Falaki Theatre,
16
Dinola
Georgia, 2014, 15’
Director:
Mariam Khatchvani
Language:
Georgia
Under the ruthless law of a small village in Georgia, a young
widow has to marry the first man who proposes to her and,
as a result, leave her daughter. The winter aura of mountain
space intensifies little Dinola’s feeling of helplessness.
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
Cine House
Contact:
[email protected]
17
Ventoux
Netherlands, 2015, 104’
Director:
Nicole Van Kilsdonk
Language:
Dutch
Four men, all old friends, decide to climb Mount Ventoux. On
the way to the top, they look for answers to questions from
past and present, and they do what men do so well: alternate
between heavy seriousness and trivial lightness.
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
KeyFilm
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre,
18
Wild Women
Gentle Beasts
Switzerland, 2016, 96’
Director:
Anka Schmid
Language:
Arabic, German, French,
Russian
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Animal-tamers from various continents shine in the spotlight
and struggle for their existence behind the scenes. Between
toiling and smiling, the female circus artists disclose their passion for their “wild” animals and extraordinary profession: a
daily life full of dedication and discipline in the midst of mortal
danger.
Production:
RECK Filmproduktion
Contact:
[email protected]
19
Momentum
Finland, 2015, 16’
Director:
Anna Antsalo
Language:
Finnish, French
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
Tuffi Films Ltd.
Contact:
[email protected]
In Finland, a small child is waiting for his time to begin. His
heart is damaged and he needs major heart surgery. It is a
fight against time. The boy’s parents are wandering the corridors of the hospital. The heart is stopped during the surgery
operation. In Le Locle, a village in Switzerland that acts as the
heart of the watch industry, watches are repaired. The narrow
streets of the village carry vital parts to watches and nowadays also parts for human bodies, for example pacemakers.
The village is like a big factory line or a time-twisting machine.
There, pieces are refined and workers’ hands turn time on and
off.
Falaki Theatre,
Monday 29 February, 7 pm
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Some of Us
Neko od nas
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2014, 8’
Director:
Anja Kavic
Language:
Bosnian
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
When a relationship between two sisters turns into resentment
accumulated over the years of growing up together, it must
come to breaking point. The decisive confrontation is painful
and reveals many secrets, and the outcome can be tragic.
The whole story is set among wagons at a railway station. This
is a story about anger, attention and a gun.
Production:
Academy of art Banja Luka
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre,
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Fatima
Germany/France, 2015, 18’
Director:
Nina Khada
Language:
French
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Fatima is a collection of voices and icons. The filmmaker’s
voice tells the story of her grandmother’s exile from Algeria
to France. The film scrolls in black and white; she tells of her
grandmother’s fights for her country, for her children. Back to
the present: what is her
grandmother’s heritage?
Production:
depoetica
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre,
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Caravan of ArabIberoamerican Films
Speed Sisters
Palestine/USA, 2016, 80’
Director:
Amber Fares
Language:
Arabic, English
Subtitles:
English
Production:
SOC DOCS
The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team
in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at
improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women
have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street car-racing scene.
Weaving together their lives on and off the track, Speed
Sisters takes the audience on a surprising journey into the drive
to go further and faster than anyone thought possible.
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre,
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Tea Time
LA ONCE
Chile, 2014, 70’
Director:
Maite Alberdi
Language:
Spanish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
Micromundo Producciones
Five elderly women have gathered for tea once a month religiously for the past sixty years. At these meetings, the friends
argue and then make up; they evoke a common past and
try hard to show that they are still strong, forgetting for a moment their illnesses. Gathered around the table, they spend
their time interpreting current affairs and fashion, and despite
not understanding some trends, they comment on them with
absolute authority, trying to explain them to one another.
Contact:
[email protected]
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In This Land Lay Graves of Mine
‫لى قبور في هذه االرض‬
Lebanon/France/ Qatar/UAE, 2014, 110’
Director:
Reine Mitri
Language:
Arabic
Subtitles:
English
Production:
DJINN House Productions
Contact:
[email protected]
Selling her land in her “Christian” village to a Muslim took
the filmmaker on a journey into present-day territorial and
demographic fears between Lebanon’s communities. These
fears perpetuate past traumas generated by massacres
and forced displacements, which were perpetrated on a
sectarian basis during the civil war. Since the war ended in
1990, land transactions are completing what the war has not
achieved: dismantling the country into sectarian enclaves. By
intimately interweaving her own memory with the narratives of
displacements of the protagonists and the country’s memory,
the film reveals a dark present where an exploding landscape
reflects communities’ reciprocal fears, hatred and intolerance, as the Middle East region as a whole witnesses new
forced displacements of minorities.
Goethe Institute,
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Seeing the Unseen
¿Qué ves? (Ecos de lo invisible)
Argentina, 2014, 96’
Director:
Sofia Vaccaro
Language:
Spanish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
AlertaCINE
How do you sense the world with hearing, touch, smell, taste,
but not sight? How can you feel and know the space around
you? And what if you do see it? The film is a reflection on image and imagination, seeing and blindness, memory and the
ear, reality and fiction. The documentary takes the audience
on an experimental path, mixing digital and celluloid as it
goes deeper into the richness of sound. Through its characters, the film explores several ways of creating and sensing the
world.
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre,
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Coffee for All Nations
‫قهوة لكل األمم‬
Palestine/Sweden, 2015, 52’
Director:
Wafa’ Jamil
Language:
Arabic
Subtitles:
English
Production:
Multi Media Production
Company, (AB) HolmKard
Film, Enjaaz, a Dubai Film
Market Initiative
Coffee For All Nations follows Palestinian Abed, who the Israeli
army tried to force him out of his home in Al-Walaja village
near Bethlehem in 1948. Abed persisted, staying in his village
and living in a cave that he discovered on his land until the
end of his life. While in his cave, which was in a spot that
could be reached by Palestinians, Israelis and foreigners, he
decided to open up a coffee shop. Through his coffee shop,
Abed turned his own tragedy into a transformative project
that allowed him to share his one true possession and a
stunning view. A story of hope and resilience, Coffee for All
Nations provides a wonderfully fresh backdrop to the injustices
caused by war and occupation.
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre,
Goethe Institute,
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The Future Is Ours
El Futuro es Nuestro
Argentina, 2014, 110’
Director:
Virna Molina, Ernesto Ardito
Language:
Spanish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
Virna, Ernesto
Contact:
[email protected]
The film tells the story of a group of teenagers who were
kidnapped and disappeared by the Argentinean dictatorship in 1976. They were students of the Colegio Nacional de
Buenos Aires, the oldest and most prestigious high school in
the country. One hundred and eight pupils of the school were
killed by the military government. The group of young people
whose story the film traces were between 15 and 19 years old.
At the beginning of the seventies, they created the biggest,
most important political group that gathered young people
to fight for the Socialist Revolution. They lived beautiful days of
friendship and love which were interrupted by violence and
death, brought about by the military government.
Falaki Theatre, Monday 29 February, 5 pm
Artistic Creativity Centre, Thursday 3 March, 7 pm
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Trip Along Exodus
Palestine/Syria/Lebanon, 2015, 120´
Director:
Hind Shoufani
Language:
Arabic, English
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
Contact:
[email protected]
Trip Along Exodus explores the last 70 years of Palestinian
politics as seen through the prism of the life of the filmmaker’s
father, Dr. Elias Shoufani, a leader of the Palestinian Liberation
Organization and an academic and leftist intellectual who
was one of the leaders of the opposition to Arafat within Fatah for 20 years. Born in Ma’liya in the Galilee and educated
at the Hebrew University and Princeton, the multilingual and
erudite Dr. Shoufani was also the Arab world’s leading analyst
of Israeli affairs for more than a generation. His opposition
to policies meant to lead towards a two-state solution was
grounded in his political clarity and prescience about the direction in which Israel was headed and his understanding that
this would never, in fact, be allowed to be realised.
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Haunted
Maskoon
Syria, 2014, 112’
Director:
Liwaa Yazji
Language:
Arabic
Subtitles:
English
Production:
Liwaa Yazji
Contact:
[email protected]
In feature documentary Haunted, the filmmaker explores
what it means to flee a war. She meets both friends and
people previously unknown to her at their homes; houses
where they live now or where they used to live; spaces that
have turned into a sought-after commodity. When does one
leave? What does one take? What aspects of life does the
departure irretrievably end? How long can one sit tight? What
do people call their departure? Are they refugees? Do they
leave? Do they see themselves as displaced people? Do they
just move on? What does home mean? Which rights do they
lose? From what losses can they protect themselves? What
can they control? By means of her collected stories, the filmmaker traces the endless refugee movements in the region
over the last 70 years.
Goethe Institute,
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Suspended Time
Tiempo Suspendido
Mexico, 2015, 64’
Director:
Natalia Bruschtein
Language:
Spanish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Time Suspended is a documentary about memory; the
memory of a woman who has fought tirelessly against historical amnesia and in favour of justice for the crimes committed by the state in Argentina. Today this woman has lost her
memory, liberating her from the pain; she bids farewell to this
life without betraying the family she once lost.
Production:
Centro de Capacitación
Cinematográfica, A.C
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre
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Strong Will
‫الهمه القويه‬
Lebanon, 2015, 17´
Director:
Nathalie Rbeiz
Language:
Arabic
Subtitles:
English
Production:
Strong Will looks at the story of Soha Beshara, a Lebanese
woman who in 1988 tried to assassinate General Antoine
Lahad of the South Lebanon Army. She was unsuccessful
and was jailed for ten years in the notorious Khiam prison in
southern Lebanon. Her mother, Najat Eid, who was married to
former communist activist Fawaz Beshara, was forced to carry
her daughter’s act for the rest of her life, and to work hard
to keep her daughter alive and to secure her release from
prison.
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre
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A Time to Rest
‫هدنه‬
Lebanon/ France, 2015, 66’
Director:
Myriam EI Hajj
Language:
Arabic
Subtitles:
English
Production:
Abbout Productions, Inthemood
In Beirut, 2013, the filmmaker’s uncle Riad and his friends, all
veterans of the Christian militias in Lebanon, still feel nostalgia
for the war that impassioned their youth. Between shared
memories in her uncle’s hunting shop and their hunting trips
from which they often return empty-handed, the filmmaker
questions them; she confronts them. At a time when Lebanon
continues to live through torments, in Riad’s store a rupture
between generations is looming.
Contact:
[email protected]
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Spanish Short Films
Me, the President
Yo, Presidenta
Spain, 2015, 18’
Director:
Arantxa Echevarría
Language:
Spanish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
The chaos of the last elections in the country, where the ‘none
of the above’ vote secured a large majority, alarms Europe.
Through a psychological study, it is shown that the most gifted
to lead the nation is someone who has the most friends on
Facebook. And this happens to be the film’s protagonist, Ana.
And with that, Ana’s life takes a 180-degree turn.
Production:
Tvtec servicios audiovisuales
Contact:
[email protected]
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The Christmas Speech
El Discurso De Navidad
Spain, 2015, 25’
Director:
Cristina Bodelón,
Ignacio de Vicente
Language:
Spanish
Lucía goes home for Christmas. When she sees her boyfriend
and friends, she finds herself confronted with the reasons for
which she left her hometown, and is brought face-to-face
with her demons.
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
Lasoga Films
Contact:
[email protected]
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Village
Pueblo
Spain, 2015, 10’
Director:
Maria Pardo
Luis returns to his village to face the reality that he has been
trying to avoid; a journey that can never be forgotten.
Language:
Spanish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
ECAM
Contact:
[email protected]
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Stella
Spain, 2015, 20’
Director:
Ainhoa Menéndez
Language:
Spanish
Claudia has a very special relationship with her daughter Elia.
They share a fantasy world that appears when Claudia tells a
story to her daughter. In that world, they are Stela and Zina, a
queen and a princess expelled from their kingdom.
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
Almatwins Productions
Contact:
[email protected]
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Marceline Blurr
Spain, 2015, 15’
Director:
Nadia Mata Portillo
Language:
English, French
Inspired by the movies of the French New Wave, Marceline
Blurr is the story of a young woman who was born with a vision
impairment that is highly out of the ordinary. For her, the world
is a magical place, a huge unfinished tableau upon which
she finds it not only amusing but absolutely essential to paint.
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
Be True Productions
Contact:
[email protected]
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The Right Place
El Lugar Adecuado
Spain, 2015, 3’
Director:
Fernando Franco,
Begoña Arostegui
Does life, perhaps, consist of being in the right place at the
right time? Could it consist of interpreting and following the
signs?
Language:
Spanish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
Ferdydurke
Contact:
[email protected]
Wednesday 2 March,
7 pm
45
Dance and Cinema
One Million Steps
Germany/Turkey, 2015, 20’
Director:
Eva Stotz
Language:
Turkish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
A tap dancer performs, while elsewhere people run from the
tear gas of the police. Two worlds apart, if it wasn’t for an
unexpected opening in the floor, right in front of the dancer.
She decides to jump, and lands in the middle of the social
protests in Istanbul. The dancer witnesses the people’s fight for
personal freedom and living space, and takes the opportunity
to transform her dance into a statement of solidarity.
Production:
ronjafilm
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre,
Goethe Institute,
48
Horizons
Horizontes
Switzerland, 2015, 70’
Director:
Eileen Hofer
Language:
Spanish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
Intermezzo Films
Contact:
[email protected]
Alicia Alonso’s splendour still radiates through the world of ballet today. A star so brilliant, she captivated audiences worldwide. Even now at the age of ninety, she continues to encourage the dreams of young dancers who seek to follow in her
footsteps. Amanda, a young and aspiring ballet dancer, has
dedicated all her efforts to preparing for her exam, the first
step towards being accepted into Alonso’s ballet company.
Viengsay is one of four celebrated dancers of the National
Ballet of Cuba. She has already achieved the status young
Amanda dreams of one day attaining, and day after day she
continues to evolve under the watchful eye of Alonso, the
legendary ballerina in whose shadows she now has to find her
own rightful place.
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Czech Swan
Czeski łabędź
Poland/ Czech Republic, 2015, 52’
Director:
Aleksandra Terpińska
Language:
Czech
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
CoLab Pictures
Contact:
[email protected]
Czech Swan is a humorous and uplifting story about a group
of pensioners from a small Czech village whose age doesn’t
stop them from pursuing their dreams and caprices with
unbeatable enthusiasm. Hanna and her eleven friends are
members of a locally famous dancing group Majorettes, with
only two years left before they can celebrate its 15th anniversary. Always seeking to try something new, when they notice
that their usual cancan routine does not excite the audience’s enthusiasm as it used to, they decide to incorporate a
famous ballet piece from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake into their
repertoire.
Falaki Theatre,
50
The Need to Dance
The Netherlands, 2014, 58´
Director:
Petra Lataster-Czisch,
Peter Lataster
Language:
Dutch
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
Monique Busman,
Michiel van Erp
The Need to Dance is a portrait of the Flemish-Moroccan
choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, one of the most versatile
and successful dance artists of our times. The documentary
follows him as he travels all over Europe. As the film observes
him creating and performing widely different styles of dance,
he talks in an interior monologue about what lies behind his
irrepressible urge to dance. As the son of a Moroccan father,
a Muslim, and a Roman-Catholic Flemish mother, it was anything but obvious that he would become an artist.
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre, Tuesday 1 March, 5 pm
Artistic Creativity Centre, Thursday 3 March, 5 pm
51
Tribute to a Cineaste:
Pirjo Honkasalo
250 Grammes: A Radioactive Testament
250 grammaa - radioaktiivinen testamentti
Finland, 1983, 53'
Director:
Pirjo Honkasalo,
Pekka Lehto
Language:
Finnish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
This film is, at its simplest, the story of a father's loss of his only
child to brain cancer. Yet the reverberations run even deeper,
since the father is the designer of a nuclear station that will
produce the potent carcinogen plutonium. The world's nuclear power stations continue to produce hundreds of tons of
the carcinogen, and there is a lack of safe storage methods.
Plutonium remains lethal to the living environment for at least
500,000 years, an eternity in human terms.
Production:
P-KINO
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre
54
Flame Top
Tulipää
Finland, 1980, 155'
Director:
Pirjo Honkasalo,
Pekka Lehto
Language:
Finnish, Russian
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
P-KINO
Contact:
[email protected]
This biographical film celebrates the life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), who was
born in 1868. Lassila’s early years are briefly shown; then the
film richly details his active but paradoxically reclusive adult
life, beginning with his sojourn in St. Petersburg, where he
worked as a businessman. Unable to stay away from politics,
he caused the assassination of a high-ranking Czarist and as
a result, had to flee back to Finland to hide. Once established
in the comparative safety of a small village, he taught in a
school in order to support his real vocation as a writer. Always
living on the edge of poverty, if not squarely in the middle
of it, Lassila continues to avoid public contact – he keeps his
identity low-key and camouflages it by publishing under a
variety of pseudonyms.
Goethe Institute,
55
Fire Eater
Tulennielijä
Finland/Sweden, 1998, 100'
Director:
Pirjo Honkasalo
Language:
Finnish, Russian,
German, Spanish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
Marko Röhr Productions,
SVT Drama
Contact:
[email protected]
In Pirjo Honkasalo's films, men are no more than passers-by,
or worse, the bringers of violence - destructive forces. In this
fictional drama, men have disappeared entirely into the background. Sisters Irene and Helena never knew their father, and
their mother deserts them shortly after their birth to run off with
a German serviceman. After their grandmother dies, the two
sisters end up in an orphanage. Then their mother arrives on
the scene and whisks them away to go work for a circus. They
travel together throughout Europe, ultimately winding up in
Helsinki. While the sisters are devoted to one another, their relationship with their mother is ambivalent at best, but the mother's
love for her children is undiminished. Honkasalo tells the story
largely through flashbacks in colour, while the scenes set in the
present and related by one of the sisters are filmed in black and
white, as if the here and now is nothing but a pale reflection of
the past. The film is an unhurried examination of how the past
impacts the present, a common feature of Honkasalo's films.
Each new generation must eat fire to survive.
Goethe Institute,
Falaki Theatre,
56
ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest
ITO – kilvoittelijan päiväkirja
Finland/Japan, 2009, 111'
Director:
Pirjo Honkasalo
Language:
Japanese
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
Millennium Film, Baabeli
Contact:
[email protected]
Set in Tokyo, the film tells the story of Yoshinobu Fujioka, a
young Buddhist priest, and his fervent search for the meaning of life amid oppressive dreams, the back alleys of the
city, and the darkness of the human mind. Yoshinobu hears
confession in a women´s prison, in bars and at an old geisha
house, while the many layers of nocturnal Tokyo and unpredictable memories are twisted into a web that drives people
face-to-face with one another. Dreams, reality and fiction are
blended in this study of the complexity of the human mind,
which takes the audience on an exploration of memory while
facing oneself and encountering others.
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The Three Rooms of Melancholia
Denmark/Germany/Finland/Sweden, 2004, 106'
Director:
Pirjo Honkasalo
Language:
Russian, Chechen,
Arabic, Finnish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
This portrait of Chechnya during the recent conflict tells a story
of uncertainty and bleak despair via a series of lyrical images,
which say more than a dozen talking bureaucrats could. The
filmmakers take a particular interest in the country's youth.
She visits an isolated military school in St. Petersburg, as well as
Chechnya's fallen capital, and a refugee camp for children
in the neighbouring Republic of Ingushetia, which imply the
cycle of growth, violence and death that awaits so many.
Production:
Millennium Film Oy, Baabeli Ky
Contact:
[email protected]
58
Concrete Night
Betoniyö
Finland/Sweden/Denmark, 2013, 96'
Director:
Pirjo Honkasalo
Language:
Finnish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
Bufo
Contact:
[email protected]
The film is about a young shattered mind. It’s about how a cut
becomes a scar, how a scar becomes fear and how fear finally
turns into violence. The protagonist of the film is a 14-year-old
boy named Simo who has not yet developed a sense of self
and the ability to protect himself from his surroundings. He lacks
his own identity. Simo and his big brother Ilkka are the sons of a
helpless and unpredictable single mother. Their chaotic home is
located deep in the heart of a concrete jungle in Helsinki. Ilkka
has one day of freedom left before starting a prison sentence,
and their mother persuades Simo to spend the last night with his
brother. Events heighten throughout that single day and night in
Helsinki and the brothers witness incidents they would rather not
see. Simo has no ability to distort what he sees or delude himself; he sees things as they really are. When unfiltered, the world
seems unbearable. Finally a casual encounter with a photographer, whose intentions Simo misreads, launches him into blind
fear, which explodes in panic-stricken violence. In this violence
Simo finds his lacking identity, his true face.
Goethe Institute,
59
Country in Focus:
Denmark
Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars
Iran/Denmark/Germany/Norway/Sweden, 2013, 90’
Director:
Berit Madsen
Language:
Persian, English
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
Radiator Films
Sepideh wants to become an astronaut. While she spends
her nights exploring the secrets of the universe, her family will
do anything to keep her on the ground. The expectations
for a young Iranian woman are very different from Sepideh’s
ambitions, and her plans to go to university are in danger. But
Sepideh holds on to her dream. She takes up the fight and
teams up with the world's first female space tourist, Anousheh
Ansari.
Contact:
[email protected]
Goethe Institute,
62
In Your Hands
Forbrydelser
Denmark, 2004, 101'
Director:
Annette K. Olesen
Language:
Danish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
IB Tardini
Anna is a recently graduated theologian who is in search of
a job. There is nothing more important to her than to have
children, but even though she and her husband Frank have
been trying for years, nothing has happened. When she is
offered a temporary job as a priest at a women's prison, she
sees no reason to say no. There she meets Kate, an inmate
who possesses supernatural powers. Anna discovers that she
is pregnant and it is revealed that Kate carries a secret that
may have fatal consequences for both of them.
Contact:
Goethe Institute,
63
In Light of the Revolution
I Lyset af Revolutionen
Denmark, 2015, 54’
Director:
Lone Falster,
Iben Haahr Andersen
Language:
English
Subtitles:
Arabic
The Arab spring swept through Egypt in 2011 and changed
everyone. The women made their mark by taking courage
and creating powerful, radical art. During the chaotic years
when the military and the Muslim Brotherhood were fighting
for power, In Light of the Revolution meets eight female artists,
including a photographer, a film director, musicians and visual
artists.
Production:
Danish Doc Production
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre, Thursday 3 March, 7 pm
64
Creation
Zayesh
Denmark, 2015, 25'
Director:
Roja Pakari
Language:
Farsi
Hamraz Bayan talks about becoming a mother for the first
time, as a woman and as an artist. In Farsi zayesh means
creation, coming from the word zayman which means birth.
This film is about creation on several levels.
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
The National Film School of
Denmark
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre
65
Front View of My Father
MIN FAR FORFRA
Denmark, 2015, 29'
Director:
Nicoline Skotte Jacobsen
Language:
Danish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
The film takes place in a subtle and playful studio, a luminous
and colourful universe which a daughter has invited her
father to, in order to participate in different games and subtly
reflect on the divorce that has deprived them both of parts of
the daughter's childhood. The film tackles a pressing issue in
Danish divorce culture in a new and both experimental and
educational way.
Production:
The National Film School Of
Denmark
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre
66
Malek Means Angel
Tunisia/Denmark, 2014, 28'
Director:
Lea Hjort Mathiesen
Language:
Arabic
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
The National Film School of
Denmark
Contact:
[email protected]
In the Tunisian capital of Tunis, 11-year-old Malek spends every
day fencing alongside Yassmine, her best friend who is also
her fencing opponent. Yassmine has already won her first
gold medal and is better at the sport than Malek. We follow
the young girl in the run-up to a major tournament – a time
when a lot is expected of Malek. Filmed in a poetic observational style, we see the two girls sitting on a wall talking about
boys, in the training room where Malek endures her coach’s
less-than-gentle criticism, and in the courtyard of the fencing
school where the girls have just been up to some mischief.
With an eye for detail and subtle humour, director Lea Hjort
Mathiesen captures how the tough girl transforms from a
madcap tomboy into a young woman, with new feelings and
strong emotions. At the same time, the film lovingly portrays a
close friendship that is put under pressure by the demands of
growing up.
Falaki Theatre
67
Guest Festival:
Dortmund - Cologne
International Women's
Film Festival
The Visitor
Germany/Netherlands, 2014, 79’
Director:
Katarina Schröter
Language:
Hindi, Portuguese,
English, Chinese
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
The visitor, a silent figure incorporated by the filmmaker, roams
through three mega-cities, creating wordless encounters with
random people, following a dramaturgy of chance both with
the choice of the protagonist as well as with the outcome of
each story. First simply attendant, she becomes an intruder,
friend and even loved one who shares the daily life of her
protagonists, their sleeping places and their worries. Through
this new presence in their life, the loneliness of these different
people becomes apparent; but as the relation intensifies, the
border between “I” and “the other” starts to blur.
Production:
visitorfilmproject
Contact:
[email protected]
Goethe Institute,
70
Family Business
Germany, 2015, 89’
Director:
Christiane Bochner
Language:
German, Polish
Subtitles:
Arabic, English
Production:
Bochner Filmproduktion GbR
Contact:
[email protected]
Anne from Bochum in Germany is eighty-eight years old; she
reigns over her kingdom from the sofa. Her husband passed
away recently and it was only then that her daughters
realised what he had been successfully covering up: Anne is
suffering from dementia. She can‘t live by herself anymore.
Meanwhile, Jowita‘s family has been living on the construction site of what is to be their future home in Lubin, Poland
for years. The kitchen is missing, the bedrooms are yet to be
plastered, their 13-year old daughter wants to have her own
room. They are out of money and Jowita is desperate to get
a job. This seemingly perfect, win-win situation brings both
families together. Jowita is employed to provide full-time care
for Anne to take the pressure off her two working daughters.
But the old lady continues to lose her grip on reality and finds
it hard to make sense of Jowita‘s presence in her life. The two
women don‘t seem to understand each other nor like one
another much. The days grow long and tedious for Jowita as
she is stuck in the old woman‘s routine, far away from her own
family.
Goethe Institute,
71
Homage to
Nabeeha Lotfi
Because Roots Do not Die
‫ألن اجلذور ال متوت‬
Lebanon, 1975-1977, 55'
Director:
Nabeeha Lotfi
Language:
Arabic
The film is a panorama of Palestinian women's lives in a Lebanese refugee camp before the Lebanese civil war, with heartbreaking testimonies from the women and children survivors.
Subtitles:
Production:
Radiator Films
Contact:
[email protected]
Falaki Theatre,
74
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Side Events
Master Class
An Encounter With FilmmakerPirjo Honkasalo:
Man Is a Meaning Searching
Animal
Goethe Institute, Tuesday 1 March, 7 pm
Pirjo Honkasalo
Selected Filmography
Pirjo Honkasalo is a highly established
director, cinematographer and screenwriter, who has won countless awards
for her work. She directed several feature films in the 1970’s and 80’s together with Pekka Lehto, e.g. Flame Top in
Cannes competition 1980. In the 1990’s
she continued alone and turned to feature documentaries, directing the prize
winning The Trilogy of the Sacred and
the Satanic (Mysterion, Tanjuska and
the 7 Devils and Atman). She has also
directed the stunningly beautiful The 3
Rooms of Melancholia, a story of how
Russian and Chechen children were
psychologically affected by the war.
The film is still one of the most award
winning feature documentaries ever.
She was then invited to Japan to direct
a film in Tokyo coming out with her film
ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest.
2013 Concrete Night
2009 ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest
2004 The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
(three prizes at Venice Film Festival,
FIPRESCI prize at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival)
1998 Fire-Eater (Premiere and two
awards at Locarno Film Festival, AFI
Grand Prix)
1996 Atman (Joris Ivens Award at IDFA)
1993 Tanjuska and the 7 Devils
1991 Mysterion (screened at Berlinale’s
Panorama Programme 1992)
1985 Da Capo (Premiere at Cannes
Directors’ Fortnight)
She has had well over twenty retrospectives of her work world wide, acted as
a member of several international juries
and is actively giving international master classes. With her film Concrete Night
she is back to feature fiction again.
1983 250 Grams (Premiere at Venice
Film Festival)
1980 Flame Top (Cannes Official Selection)
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Master Class
An Encounter With FilmmakerAnnette K. Olesen
Goethe Institute, Monday 29 February, 7 pm
Annette K. Olesen
Biography
How do we turn limitations into benefits?
The Dogme 95 movement revolutionised Danish film over the course of a
decade. Not only did it increase the
attention that Danish films in general
earned internationally, it also fundamentally changed the Danish film industry from within. It changed the way
filmmakers work with films, in terms of
budget, in terms of aesthetics, in terms
of discipline and not least in terms of
co-creating rather than - especially as
directors - thinking of themselves as ingenious dictators.
Annette graduated from the National
Film School of Denmark in 1991. She has
directed shorts, documentaries, TV series and five features. Her features Minor Mishaps (2002), the Dogme 95 film
In Your Hands (2004) and Little Soldier
(2008) all participated in the international main competition at the Berlin
Film Festival. She directed several episodes of the DR TV series Borgen (201011). Her latest directorial effort was the
feature The Shooter (2013), followed by
six episodes of the DR TV series Broke
(2014).
The focus on physical and economic
limitations became a source of enormous creativity.
Over the years Annette has frequently
led workshops in directing and ideadevelopment, both at the National Film
School of Denmark and abroad. In addition she has involved herself in national and international debates about the
transition of the movie industry towards
digital platforms and new distribution
and business models. She has been
president of the Danish Film Directors'
Association and is currently a member
of the board of the Danish public service broadcaster TV2.
The filmmaker will introduce and screen
her own Dogme film In Your Hands
(2004). She will present the ten Dogme
95 rules and exemplify how the rules directly affected the films and the industry. But she won’t just talk about “the
good old days.” She will also talk about
how she thinks that these experiences
have become very valuable again today, in a drastically changing market
for films.
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Workshop
"One Minute Workshop Films"
Goethe Institute, Sunday 28 February, 5 pm
"Correspondence Between Women" is a video workshop organised by the Cairo International Women's Film Festival. It started in 1977
as an initiative by the Women's International
Film Festival - Drac Magic. Later on, "Trama",
a network that coordinates between women's film festivals in Spain, started coordinating the project. In 2008, the project came to
Egypt through "Entre Cineastas" - the Cairo
International Women's Film Festival.
filming with a video camera and directing
short films.
After the open discussion, every participant
shoots by herself and directs a one-minute
short film (one shot) in collaboration with her
colleagues, over the span of the workshop
(four days, five hours a day).
Each participant "films" her own film on her
own. However, all participants alternate the
roles of short-film-making activities -- acting,
decorating, making up and directing -- with
the dynamic of teamwork.
Every year, a subject is selected to be the
main theme. This year, we embark on a
journey to explore a new subject - love
concepts.
Registration is open for all non-professional
female filmmakers. Films made in the
workshop must be about the selected
subject; they also have to be one-minute
long, unedited, one-shot films.
The tutor conducts an open dialogue
between participants from different countries
about the different aspects and points of
views about the selected subject, in order
for them to start creating and discussing
their ideas before they realise each of their
own short films.
The purpose of the workshop is for nonprofessional women to learn the basics of
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