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Newsletter September 2015

1. NATION ESTATE at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
2. HAUNTED in Alexandria and Buenos Aires
3. DARIES OF A FLYING DOG in Alexandria
4. Eccomi…Eccoti by Raed Rafei at Talents Beirut
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1. NATION ESTATE at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

This month Larissa Sansour’s Sci-fi short will be shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the presence of the director. The film was invited to the program “Films from Here” which shows works supported by AFAC (the Arab Fun for Arts and Culture)

Content
Nation Estate is a 9-minute sci-fi short offering a clinically dystopian, yet humorous approach to the deadlock in the Middle East.
The film explores a vertical solution to Palestinian statehood: One colossal skyscraper housing the entire Palestinian population – now finally living the high life.
Larissa Sansour, Palestine/Denmark 2012, 9 min, no dialogue
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2. HAUNTED in Alexandria and Buenos Aires

Liwaa Yazji’s HAUNTED is showing this month at the Mediterranean Film Festival in Alexandria/Egypt and at the cine migrante in Buenos Aires / Argentina.
Institutions can order the film for special screenings and events. We have English as well as French subtitles available.

Content
“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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3. DIARIES OF A FLYING DOG in Alexandria

Bassem Fayad’s feature documentary, a contemplation about his dog, himself and life in Lebanon, is currently showing at the Mediterranean Film Festival in Alexandria/Egypt.

Content
Time has no beginning and no end, if it spins in a circle. Each point can be a start or a finish, or simply an abstract point. We can chose to begin and end, or we can chose to be.
A family of four generations in their house in the Lebanese mountains. A dog.
What does it mean to live in war that constantly changes features and never ends? What does it mean to care for a family in such a situation? Which values do you teach your children? What is society in a civil war? Or the nation? Can one heal before peace?
Using the example of his biography - from the first year of the civil war in 1975 till the early weeks of the Islamic State in summer 2014 - Bassem Fayad lovingly and courageously examines how life moves on while war rotates in and around it.
Bassem Fayad, 75 min, Libanon/UAE, Arabic with English ST
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4. Eccomi…Eccoti by Raed Rafei at Talents Beirut

With his essayist documentary Eccomi…Eccoti (I am here...You are there), a co-production with mec film, Raed Rafei wil take part at Talents Beirut’s editing workshop. Talents Beirut is partner of Berlinale Talents International.

Content
Two men. Two worlds. And a quest for a common future in a world beset with real and imaginary boundaries. Eccomi... Eccoti unfolds as a travel-log navigating between a European reality, a barricaded promised land for homosexuals, and an Arab context where several gay characters are in limbo between seeking acceptance and a desire for exile.
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