NARRATING REALITIES; MEDITERRANEAN PERSPECTIVES
The Fundación Tres Culturas and in the framework of the Alqantara programme, bridges for dialogue and coexistencewhich aims to address the major debates in the current Mediterranean space, is organising this cycle to disseminate the multiple and complex field of cinema related to the media and especially documentary film, supporting the TresMed meeting, which will be held in Malaga on 2 and 3 June. We also aim to draw attention to the diverse and topical themes covered.
We believe it is important to promote a reflection on the various processes that originate around us that need to be narrated and filmed in order to be known, to create opinion, to appeal to consciences and to situate us in new realities.
Family situations in conflicts, citizens' movements, immigration and the history of Casablanca are the themes of this cycle.
Tuesday, 7 June, 20:00h.
THE HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR
Eran Riklis, Israel/Germany/France/Romania, 2010, 103 min.
Based on the novel A woman in Jerusalemby A. B. Yehoshua.
Synopsis
A woman - an irregular immigrant - who works as a cleaner in a bakery in Jerusalem dies in a terrorist attack and no one claims her in the morgue. This event is used by the press to denounce the company's lack of humanity, which decides to launch an image-cleansing operation that involves sending the director of the Human Resources department to repatriate the body to her country of origin, a former Soviet republic.
Tuesday, 14 June, 20,00h
EVERY REBELLION
Arash T. Riahi, Arman T. Riahi, Iran, Austri, Switzerland, 2013, 104 min.
Synopsis
What do the Occupy Wall Street movement have in common with the indignados in Spain or the Arab Spring? Is there any connection between the Iranian democracy movement's struggle and the Syrian uprising? What is the link between Femen's topless Ukrainian activists and an Islamic culture like Egypt? And on top of all this, what do Serbia and Turkey have to do with each other?
Their motives for protest are different, but the non-violent tactics they use in their struggles are closely connected. So are the activists who share strategies, new ideas and established methods. Everyday Rebellion is a story about the richness of peaceful protest, represented every day by passionate people in Spain, Iran, Syria, Ukraine, the US, the UK and Serbia.
Tuesday, 21 June, 20,00h
THE PLACE OF STRAWBERRIES,
Maite Vitoria Daneris, Spain, 2013, 90 min.
A different view of migration.
Synopsis:
Lina, an elderly peasant woman from Northern Italy, arrives every day at dawn at the Porta Palazzo market in Turin, the largest open-air market in Europe. There she sells her vegetables and strawberries. One day Hassan, a young Moroccan who has come to Italy in search of work, turns up. The filmmaker's camera follows these characters for seven years, during which she has constructed this priceless portrait of the human being through the work of the land.
Awards
Grand Prix Del Jury // Best Documentary Film
Annecy International Italian Film Festival, Annecy // 2014 ( France ).
First Prize Best Documentary Film
Sguardi Altrove Film Festival, Milan // 2014 (Italy )
Ucca Award // Best Documentary Film
Torino Film Festival , Turin , 2013 ( Italy )
Gli Occhiali Di Gandhi" Award // Best Documentary Film
Torino Film Festival, Torino , 2013 ( Italy )
Tuesday 28 June, 20.00h
THE FABULOUS CASABLANCA
Manu Horrillo, Spain, 2015, 85 min.
Director Manu Horrillo and José Antonio Hergueta from MKL productions will be present to present the documentary.
The most universal city, a history of encounters and coexistence. A century and many personal stories of the Spaniards who went to Casablanca in search of a future. El Dorado where dreams could come true, the African Pearl of the French Protectorate in Morocco. A documentary by Manuel Horrillo and MLK Producciones.