In October, the Fundación Tres Culturas is offering a cycle of Euro-Arab co-productions with the aim of highlighting the cultural cooperation between countries, resulting in films, documentaries and short films of great quality and thematic variety.
France is a winner in these co-productions with French-speaking countries such as Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, ensuring the permanence and dissemination of its language and giving young filmmakers the opportunity to make their first films, while positioning itself as the patron country of Arab and African cinema.
Programming
Son of Babylon.
Directed by Mohamed Al Daradji.
Co-production Iraq-United Kingdom-France-Netherlands-United Arab Emirates-Palestinian Territories-Egypt. 2009, 95 minutes.
Synopsis
Three years after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, twelve-year-old Ahmed, a Kurdish boy, travels the roads of northern Iraq with his grandmother to try to find his father, a soldier arrested by Saddam's Republican Guard at the end of the Gulf War.
They travel along roads and cross paths with other people in the same situation; they all travel in search of someone, a new life and a future.
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