2. DIARIES OF A FLYING DOG with Aflamuna online (worldwide)


5. PUBLICATION: Two times Rashidiya and onwards. Filmmaking in Solidarity with the Palestinian Revolution
6. DVD/ of the month - HAUNTED
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Rana Eid's essay documentary showed on 20.7.22 at Die Linse in Muenster (Germany), on 4 August in the German Film Institute Filmmuseum (DFF) in Frankfurt (in the presence of the director), and will be screening on 14.8.22 at Cinema Akil in Dubai (UAE).




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In a rare case where the sound landscape of a film dictates the visual landscape, Panoptic is a depiction of the turbulent Lebanese past and the way society copes with trauma.
documentary, Rana Eid, Lebanon 2017, 69 min, Arabic with Engl. or French ST
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You can purchase a multi-language DVD or stream the film online here.
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2. DIARIES OF A FLYING DOG with Aflamuna online (worldwide)

Bassem Fayad's deeply personal and highly political film shows in the August program of Aflamuna online and world-wide.

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documentary, Lebanon/UAE, 2014, colour, digital, 75 min, Arabic with English subtitles
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If you miss the Aflamuna screenings, you can rent the film online here.
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Four years after its world premiere in Locarno Ghassan Halwani's film is still touring international screens, in July in Muenster (Germany) and at the ArteEast Unpacking the Archive program (USA).

Halwani's exemplary structural intelligence and moral sophistication allows him to avoid the pratfalls of cinematic archivality: every minute counts. (Cinema Scope)
Erased is a powerful, thoughtful film on death, trauma, and nationhood. (Scene Creek)

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Thirty-five years ago, I witnessed the kidnapping of a man I know.
He has disappeared since.


Director Ghassan Halawani takes the viewer on a forensic paper chase, uncovering, layer by layer, the darkest chapters of Lebanese history on walls, in documents, and urban architecture.
essay-documentary, Lebanon 2018, color and black & white, 76 min, Arabic and English with English subtitles
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If you missed the screenings, you can view the film here online or purchase the multi-language DVD.
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Simon El Habre's multi award winning documentary from 2008 is now available digitally with subtitles in various languages and showed on August 1st at Die Linse (Germany).

A wonderful work, in every aspect. (radioeins)
A film full of poetry and simple worldly wisdom. (Berliner Morgenpost)
A film that goes under the skin. (Al-Mustaqbal)
It looks like, this film is the major cinematographic event of the year 2008 in Beirut. (Al-Akhbar)

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Semaan is leading a quiet life on his farm in the small village Ain el-Halazoun in the Lebanese mountains. The hamlet was completely emptied and destroyed in combats during the civil war in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990. Today, many years after an official reconciliation, its inhabitants which are all from one family regularly go back to the village to cultivate their plots of land or visit their houses and always leave before sunset.
In his comforting and humorous film Simon El Habre observes the life in his quasi ghost village and tries to reflect on the collective and individual memory in a country that seems to live in a collective amnesia and is vulnerable to a new civil war.
documentary, Simon El Habre, Lebanon 2008, 86 min, color, Arabic with Engl. ST, additional languages available
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You can buy the DVD here.
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5. PUBLICATION: Two times Rashidiya and onwards. Filmmaking in Solidarity with the Palestinian Revolution

The book

More than fifty members or sponsored authors, from Claudia von Alemann to Andres Veiel, wrote down their memories for the anthology, interviews were conducted, old photos were excarvated from archives. You learn to what extent Helge Schneider owes his wig to the film office and why Bishkek and Havana were satellites of NRW film. Many reprints of texts, some of which are no longer accessible, make the book a treasure trove of the history of West German film after 1980. (Text: publishing house)
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Haunted is not a conventional film. Rather, it draws the viewer into the harrowing interim world of refugees and displaced people. (filmdienst)

While many conflict documentaries naturally perpetuate the demarcation between military and civilian actors, Yazji's presentation of her subjects reflects the condition of individuals where that distinction has been effectively eradicated. By challenging the discernibility of that seen through a snipers lens, sovereign verticality is for a moment symbolically refuted. (Ibraaz)

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DVD-info
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


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