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
Mare Nostrum. A concert. A journey
Directed by Michelle Brun and Stefan Haupt. Switzerland / France / Italy / Morocco / Spain, 2015, 57 minutes.
Synopsis
Students from the Scuola Vivante in Switzerland are preparing for a concert with Jordi Savall and his 18 musicians. A month after the concert, a study trip takes the students to their partner school, the École Vivante, in the Moroccan High Atlas region. The result of the days spent on the road is a travel diary from the perspective of the young people, which is reflected in this documentary.
The film, sponsored by UNESCO, reveals Mediterranean music and the concerns of the students, as well as showing the dialogue of three generations belonging to the three great monotheistic religions that arose around Mare Nostrum.
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