Mokhtabar Film Screening + Panel Discussion
Date: July 11, 2020
Time: 2pm Eastern Time
Co-presented by: La Boite
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Fragments
Country: Tunisia Director: Ghassen Chraifa Length: 7 mins Synopsis: Life comes as a continuous race against time where everything is programmed in advance. Everything is tied up in a defined chronological order and we are just running to catch up. What would happen if we decide to take a break, if we feel how the present moment goes by? Director Bio: Born in 1993, Ghassen Chraifa lives and works in Tunis. He is a photographer and filmmaker. After a first year of higher studies in fine arts, he joined the National School of Architecture and Urban Planning in Tunis. He participated in several artistic and cinematographic programs. This journey has increased his love of the image. His element is capturing the present moment and preserving it from oblivion. |
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Un Passage
Country: France Director: Lamis Souliman Length: 10 mins Synopsis: In a confrontation structure between emotional and spatial alienation, out of a party full with tipsy attendees, an alienated girl fleeing through a path hidden between two stopped points in 'Time'. She takes her journey moving on the very fine line between the outer reality and a parallel universe. Through the mental sounds and expressive movements of a girl who travels in a circular path between the real world and the self-realm, the film embodies images of optional and compulsory isolation within the life of an expatriate person, in deconstructing for the meanings of fulfilled existence and residential affiliation. Director Bio: Lamis Souliman is an Egyptian filmmaker, set designer and a visual artist. She graduated with a Master’s in Film Design from Alexandria University, as well as a Master’s in New Media at École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence. Through her academic work as a researcher and assistant lecturer, she examines theories around expressionist design and the sequential role of visuals that offer film a special visual language, creating poetry out of set design. |
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April 21
Countries: Syria Director: Houssam Jlelati Length: 3 mins Synopsis: During the ongoing war in Syria, and the outbreak of coronavirus disease which resulted in a global quarantine, there are some ideas to get rid of all this noise. Director Bio: Houssam graduated from Ornina Institute of Art, Damascus. He participated in several theatre and film writing workshops and has been making shorts films since 2016. |
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Tawargit // The Dream
Countries: Morocco Director: Karim Barka Length: 3 mins Synopsis: A video take of a shadow of young fisherman from the Atlantic coast as a creature from another world. In seeing his shadow in the water, he imagines himself as a fish traveling through water to be wherever he wants. Director Bio: Karim is a visual artist born in 1990 in Tiznit, Morocco. His artistic career began at the Applied Arts Faculty of Tiznit in 2010. He continued his studies at the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan, graduating in 2015. He works with various media including: drawing, installation, photography and video. His artwork is based around the body and its relationship to time and space. It reaffirms subjective experience as the point of authenticity in human life and demonstrates how life extends beyond its own subjective limits. |
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Landing
Countries: Lebanon, Tunisia, Canada, Turkey Director: Chantal Partamian Length: 3 mins Synopsis: To be queer and to linger between states, between nation-states. A poetical essay that very briefly explores fragments of a long distance relationship, when two lovers meet, when they are caught in transit. Director Bio: Chantal is an independent filmmaker, a native of Beirut, Lebanon and have worked in the Middle East, Europe and Canada for the past thirteen years as a filmmaker and trainer. Her work addresses themes of justice, migration, identity, gender and conflict. |
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Summer 2006
Countries: Czech Republic Director: Farah Abou Kharroub Length: 7 mins Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Farah filmed a bomb as it hit Beirut’s airport. Her father filmed the years of fighting in Lebanon every day as a war reporter. Images of the city at war are mixed with images of household peace from Farah’s childhood. This collage, created from footage shot by father and daughter, reveals the unbearable length of a conflict that affected two generations. Director Bio: Farah, a Palestinian born in Lebanon, holds a BA in Filmmaking from the Lebanese University in Beirut (2014). She directed and produced several TV shows and also works as an editor and cinematographer. Her photographic work centres on documenting Palestinian stories, and has been featured in Austria and Germany. She is currently pursuing her MFA degree in film directing from FAMU International in Prague and developing her first feature film The Wind Above the Clouds. Through her work, Farah explores themes that are related to memory, social inequality, borders, refugees, and freedom. |
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All Come From Dust
Countries: Tunisia Director: Younes Ben Slimane Length: 9 mins Synopsis: A loop of edgeless bend. You were its doom, he was its bloom. You were its tomb, he was its womb. For Heaven and Hell, were words made of fum. Director Bio: Younes Ben Slimane lives and works in Tunisia. He recently graduated form the National School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tunis. He participated in exhibitions as «Conscious Landscapes» at the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, « Climbig through the tide» in B7L9 in Tunis, «El kasma» during Gabes cinema Fen, and «Homogeneus» in the French Institut of Tunis. |
Online Panel Discussion:
On "Place Attachment"
Abstract: Our awareness of a surrounding environment, context or space, impacts our idea of identity as individuals, which we translate into materiality. Living within the parameters of a built environment over a stretch of time, we start to observe details and nuances that may have never otherwise caught our attention.
Moderated by: Lamis Haggag & Fatma Hendawy Speakers:
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Tunisian productions generously sponsored by: