1. New website online
2. A SPACE EXODUS at Labocine
3. THE DREAM at Mizna Arab Film Festival
4. DRY HOT SUMMERS at the Courts aux Jardins
5. DVD of the months - HAUNTED
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1. New website online

mec film is more than happy to announce that its new website is finally launched. Hopefully we are back to the old clarity and made it easier for you to find all relevant information and browse the website from any device you wish. Please have a look.
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2. A SPACE EXODUS at Labocine

Larissa Sansour’s short sci-fi was selected for the September issue of the science film platform Labocine.com which this month revisits migratory movements across borders from the micro to the macro. You can stream the films of that issue from September 5th to October 5th.
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A Space Exodus quirkily sets up an adapted stretch of Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey in a Middle Eastern political context. The recognisable music scores of the 1968 science fiction film are changed to arabesque chords matching the surreal visuals of Sansour's film.
The film follows the artist herself onto a phantasmagoric journey through the universe echoing Stanley Kubrick's thematic concerns for human evolution, progress and technology. However, in her film, Sansour posits the idea of a first Palestinian into space, and, referencing Armstrong's moon landing, she interprets this theoretical gesture as "a small step for a Palestinian, a giant leap for mankind".
short Sci-fi, Larissa Sansour, Palestine/DK 2008, 5 min, English
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3. THE DREAM at Mizna Arab Film Festival

Mohamad Malas' The Dream, by now a classic of Arab cinema, was released in 1987. In September the documentary will be shown at the MIZNA Twin Cities Arab Film Festival in the USA.

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Shot in 1980-81, the film is composed of interviews with different Palestinian refugees including children, women, old people, and militants from the refugee camps of Sabra, Shatila, Bourj el-Barajneh, Ain al-Hilweh and Rashidieh in Lebanon. In the interviews Mohamad Malas questions them about their dreams at night. The dreams always converge on Palestine: a woman recounts her dreams about winning the war; a fedai of bombardment and martyrdom; and one man tells of a dream where he meets and is ignored by Gulf emirs. During filming Malas lived in the camps and conducted interviews with more than 400 people. In 1982 the Sabra and Shatila massacres occurred, taking the lives of several people he interviewed, and he stopped working on the project. He returned to it in 1986 and edited the many hours of footage gathered into this 45 minute film, released in 1987.
documentary, Mohamad Malas, Syria 1987, 45 min, Arabic with Engl., German or French ST
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4. DRY HOT SUMMERS at the Courts aux Jardins

Sherif Elbendary’s was invited to the Courts aux Jardins summer festival in the south of France at the end of August, to be shown in rural neighborhoods.
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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.
short film, Sherif Elbendary, Egypt/Germany 2015, 30 min, color, digital, Arabic with English ST
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5. DVD of the months - HAUNTED

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, documentary, 112 min, Arabic
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, German, Turkish, Romanian
DVD PAL, region free

Subjects
Syria, Refugees, Home, Civil War, Escape, Expulsion, Citizen, Portrait

Awards
FID Marseilles: Special Mention of the First Film Prize
Festival of the Arab Film Gabès: Bronze Prize

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