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.
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait
Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan (France/Syria, 2014, 92 min.)
Arabic and French O.V. with English and Spanish subtitles.
8 de noviembre. 22.15 horas. Cine Nervión Sala 4, con la presencia del director.
9 de noviembre. 20.00 horas. Cine Nervión Sala 8.
Synopsis
Alerta: esta película puede herir la sensibilidad del espectador. Y no sólo por las imágenes terribles, que los medios no se atrevieron a mostrar, de la guerra civil en Siria. Sino también por los sentimientos encontrados ante el horror y la impotencia de la distancia que destila este film. Sección Oficial en Cannes, construido a partir de las filmaciones que 1.001 sirios hicieron con móviles y cámaras desperdigadas por internet, y de la correspondencia del director, en el exilio en París, con la joven cineasta Simav (agua plateada en kurdo), radicada en Homs. La Scherezade de los 1.001 retratos lacerantes que componen este doloroso, pero necesario, autorretrato de Siria.
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