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Newsletter January 2016

1. DRY HOT SUMMERS in Clermont-Ferrand
2. The Œuvre of MOHAMAD MALAS
3. HAUNTED in Berlin and Munich
4. NATION ESATE now on DVD
5. Publication
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1. DRY HOT SUMMERS in Clermont-Ferrand

Sherif Elbendary’s DRY HOT SUMMERS will be showing at the prestigious International Short Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand which opens at the end of this month. The director will be present.

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Two lonely people at opposite chapters of life accidentally meet on a busy summer day in a Cairo taxi. Frail old Shawky and bubbly young Doaa are both caught up in their busy routines as their race through the city evolves into a journey of self-discovery that reconnects them to life.
Egypt/Germany 2015, 30 min, digital, color, Arabic with English subtitles
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2. The Œuvre of MOHAMAD MALAS

mec film is happy to pronounce, that we are serving as agent to the films of renown Syrian film-maker Mohamad Malas. Together with Dunia Film in Damascus we make copies available or connect you to the distributor for your territory.
Mohamad Malas’ Œuvre, short and feature length, documentary and fiction, forms a deep chronicle of Syria in the 20th and early 21st century. We are happy to help organizing retrospectives of Mohamad Malas’ work. To obtain a catalogue, please contact us
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3. HAUNTED in Berlin and Munich

Liwaa Yazji’s HAUNTED, which is reflecting the relation of Syrians to their homes in times of war, is showing this month at the Mediterranean Film Festival Munich and at Globale Festival in Berlin. The Heinrich-Boell Foundation, which funded the work, invited the director for a screening HAUNTED and a discussion at the foundations headquarters in Berlin.

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“When the bombs fell, the first thing we did was run away. It was not until later that we realized we had not looked back. We were not allowed to say goodbye to our home, our memories, our photos and the life that was lived within them. We have become vacant like these spaces; our hastily packed belongings and the forgotten things haunt us.” An uncertain existence followed the escape and expulsion from Syria that tumbled into a physical and mental nowhere, a non-space between yesterday and tomorrow. “Haunted” tells of the loss of home and security, of the real and metaphorical meaning which a house, a home has in one’s life.
Liwaa Yazji, Syria 2014, 112 min, digital, Arabic with English or French subtitles
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4. NATION ESATE now on DVD

Larissa Sansour’s 9-min sci-fi is now available on DVD at mecfilm-shop.com . You can stream or download the film at our partner’s realeyz.tv.
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5. Publication

In “As if they do not exist. Images of (be)longing and owning Palestine” Irit Neidhardt is looking at images on and from Palestine and ask for what purpose, in which context and by whom they were made and distributed. The full text is available at the Global Media Journal.
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