The Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation resumes its collaboration with the Seville European Film Festival
The aim of this collaboration is to show recent works by directors from the Middle East and North Africa and Europeans from this region. Thus, as part of the Seville European Film Festival, the following films will be screened Bloody Beans by the French-Algerian director Narimane Mari; Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait by Syrians Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan; and The Kindergarten Teacher by Israel's Nadav Lapid.
In addition, coinciding with this edition of the festival, Tres Culturas will dedicate the 'Tuesday Film' programme in November to European directors from the Middle East and North Africa, showing a growing trend in recent years that combines an increasing number of creators from this region born in Europe or exiled there and the growing European participation, especially French, in the financing of these productions.
Despite being a prolific and quality production, these films continue to find it difficult to be distributed in European cinemas, being screened at best only in a few specialised festivals. It is a pleasure to be able to offer a representative sample of this type of cinema, a purpose we share with the Seville European Film Festival.
Adieu Gary (Goodbye, Gary)
Nassim Amaouche (France, 2009, 75 min.)
Tuesday, 4 November. 8.30 p.m.
Free admission until full capacity is reached.
Film programmed in collaboration with the Institut Français.
Synopsis
In an industrial city where the factories have long since closed, some inhabitants resist despite the loneliness and emptiness of the streets. A few even still go daily to the factories where they once worked, as Francis does. His neighbour's son, who thinks his father is Gary Cooper, waits for him every day in this contemporary no-man's land, similar to a Western set.
- Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival (2009).
- Nominated for Best Film at the Dubai International Film Festival (2009).
French-Jordanian director and screenwriter Nassim Amaouche (1977) studied sociology at the University of Paris and film at the Institut International de l'Image et du Son. After winning the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival with his first feature film, Adieu GaryAmaouche directed the documentary Mawem Hisad (Family Albums), nominated for Best Documentary at the Dubai International Film Festival 2012. His next feature film, Des Apacheswill be released in France in 2015.
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