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Newsletter August 2015

1. NEW in World Sales! SOLOMON’S STONE
2. HAUNTED in Austria and Bosnia
3. FREE RANGE in Sao Paulo
4. Eccomi…Eccoti by Raed Rafei receives AFAC production grant
5. mecfilm-shop.com and realeyz.tv
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1. NEW in World Sales! SOLOMON’S STONE

We are proud to announce the international distribution of Ramzi Maqdisi’s SOLOMON’S STONE. The film is presented at the Arab Brazilian Film Festival in Sao Paulo this month.

Content
Hussein, a Palestinian young man, receives a letter from the Israeli post office to appear in person to receive a package. He has to pay the sum of 20.000 $ US dollars in order to collect that package. Hussein’s curiosity to find out what the package contains drives him to sell everything he owns, despite the outright rejection of his mother, the matter that changes their lives afterwards.
The story is adapted from the novel Blue Light by Hussein Barghouti.
Palestine/Spain 2015, 25 min, color, digital, Arabic with English subtitles
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2. HAUNTED in Austria and Bosnia

Liwaa Yazji’s HAUNTED is invited to the competition at the Mediterranean Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is showing at Der Neue Heimatfilm Festival in Austria in the presence of the director next week.

Content
In her feature documentary Syrian director Liwaa Yazji explores what it means to set off in a war. She meets friends and people previously unknown to her at their homes. Domiciles where they live now or where they yet live. Spaces that turned into a sought-after commodity.
When does one leave? What does one take? What aspects of life irretrievably end with the departure? How long can one sit tight? How do people call their departure? Are they refugees? Do they move? Do they leave? Do they see themselves as displaced people? Do they just move on? What does home mean? Which rights do they lose? From which loss can they protect themselves? What can they control?
By means of her collected stories Yazji draws quasi en passant the trace of the endless refugee movements in the region of the last 70 years.
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3. FREE RANGE in Sao Paulo

Bass Bréche’s Lebanese Spaghetti-Western is part of the short film selection of the Arab Brazilian Film Festival in Sao Paulo in August.

Content
Based on actual events, Free Range is the story of a cow that crosses the border from Israel to Lebanon and meets with 16 year old Malakeh and her family. A  Lebanese Spaghetti-Western that talks about borders and power between people, religions, cows and UN interventions.
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4. Eccomi…Eccoti by Raed Rafei receives AFAC production grant

Raed Rafei‘s essayist documentary Eccomi…Eccoti (I am here.. You are there), a co-production with mec film, received AFAC production grant.

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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5. mecfilm-shop.com and realeyz.tv

A selection of films from the mec film catalogue as well as other works from the Middle East can be purchased as DVD with home video or with institutional rights at the mec film online shop. If you want to stream the films or download them, please visit our partner’s site realeyz.tv.
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