1. Larissa Sansour’s NATION ESTATE wins in Oberhausen and shows in Huston
2. FIDAI in the International Competition at DOK.Fest Munich and cinema tour with director
3. Palestine and the Moving Image – international conference in London
4. DVD of the month: LEAVING BAGHDAD
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1. Larissa Sansour’s NATION ESTATE wins in Oberhausen and shows in Huston

We are happy to announce that Larissa Sansour’s Sci-Fi short NATION ESTATE won the award of the ecumenical jury at prestigious International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen.
The film will be shown next at Huston Palestine Film Festival next week.

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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, digital, Arabic with English subtitles
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2. FIDAI in the International Competition at DOK.Fest Munich and cinema tour with director

Damien Ounuri’s multi-award winning FIDAI is opening in German cinemas on May 16th. The director will be in the country for a small preview tour.

11.5.2013, 21:00 Munich, Rio2, International Competition Dok.Fest Munich
13.5.2013, 19:15 Berlin, Eiszeit Kino
14.5.2013, 17:00 München, Arri-Kino, International Competition Dok.Fest Munich
15.5.2013, 20:15 Hamburg, 3001-Kino

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During the Algerian revolution, my great-uncle joined his sister in France and integrated a secret FLN armed group. Settling of scores, attempted murder, hiding, imprisonment and finally expulsion in 1962, his personal journey tells the story of countless ex-fighters for Algerian independence, and echoes the current effervescence of the Arab World. Today, at the age of seventy, El Hadi reveals this dark part of his life.
Damien Ounouri, Algeria/France/China/Qatar/Kuwait/Germany 2012, 83 min
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3. Palestine and the Moving Image – INTERNATIONAL Conference in London

At the conference “Palestine and the Moving Image”, that takes place Saturday, May 11th at the London Palestine Film Festival, Irit Neidhardt of mec film will take part at the panel “From the Colonial Gaze to the Politics of Self Representation”. In her paper „As If They Do Not Exist“ she will look at early still and moving images on Palestine and as about the mage politics and the power of definition of what Palestine shall be.
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4. DVD of the month: LEAVING BAGHDAD

... this is a chilling insight into the nightmare of having to live with the consequence of one's actions. (Empire)

Koutaiba Al-Janabi introduces his first long feature film with a sensitive, penetrating eye... (Abu Dhabi International Film Festival web-magazine)

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Baghdad in the early 2000s: Sadik, a personal cameraman to Saddam Hussein escapes Iraq. Hoping to join his estranged wife in London, he traverses several countries, is passed on from one smuggler to the next. The disappearance of his son, who did not share his father’s enthusiasm for the regime, and scenes Sadik had filmed for work, haunt him alike whilst he tries to find his way out of the omnipresent and tormenting shadows of the regime.
As footage shot by fictional Sadik, Koutaiba Al-Janabi weaves real footage from Saddam Hussein’s now accessible archive into his documentary style, slow paced fiction.

Koutaiba Al-Janabi, Iraq/UAE/UK 2010, 85 min, Arabic/Hungarian/English
Subtitles: English
PAL, no regional code

Subjetcs
Iraq, political violence, film, propaganda, Saddam Hussein, exile

Awards
Gulf Film Festival Dubai: First Prize
British Independent Film Awards: Winner of the Raindance Award
Monaco Charity Festival: Special Jury Award

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