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Newsletter December 2015

1. NEW in World Sales: Dry Hot Summers
2. NEW in World Sales: In The Future They Ate From The Finest Porcelain
3. The Œuvre of MOHAMAD MALAS
4. SOLOMON’S STONE: Audience Award at Mizna Festival
5. HAUNTED in Vienna and Bratislava
6. Special
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1. NEW in World Sales: Dry Hot Summers

We are proud to announce the World Premiere of Sherif Elbendary’s DRY HOT SUMMERS, produced by Claudia Jubeh (subtype) and co-produced by Houssam Elouan, at the Dubai International Film Festival next week. In January 2016 the film will be showing at the International Short Film festival Clermont-Ferrand.

Content
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.
Egypt/Germany 2015, 30 min, digital, color, Arabic with English subtitles
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2. NEW in World Sales: In The Future They Ate From The Finest Porcelain

Larissa Sansour’s new Sci-fi IN THE FUTUTRE THEY ATE FROM THE FNEST PORCELAIN (co-directed by Soren Lind) celebrates its World Premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival that opens next week. After NATION ESTATE mec film is happy to have signed the international distribution agreement for this new short film.

Content
In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain resides in the cross-section between sci-fi, archaeology and politics. Combining live motion and CGI, the film explores the role of myth for history, fact and national identity.
A narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain – suggested to belong to an entirely fictional civilization. Their aim is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands.
Palestine/Denmark/UK/Qatar 2015, 29 min, digital, cinescope, Arabic with English subtitles
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3. The Œuvre of MOHAMAD MALAS

mec film is happy to pronounce, that we are serving as agent to the films of renown Syrian film-maker Mohamad Malas. Together with Dunia Film in Damascus we make copies available or connect you to the distributor for your territory.
Mohamad Malas’ Œuvre, short and feature length, documentary and fiction, form a deep chronicle of Syria in the 2oth and early 21st century. We are happy to help organizing retrospectives of Mohamad Malas’ work. A catalogue will be published on the new mec film website which is launching later this months.
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4. SOLOMON’S STONE: Audience Award at Mizna Festival

Ramzi Maqdisi’s bitter comic Solomon’s Stone won the Audience Award for the Best Short Film at Mizna Arab Film Festival in the USA last months.

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 by the novel Blue Light by Hussein Barghouty.
Palestine/Spain 2015, 25 min, color, digital, Arabic with English subtitles
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5. HAUNTED in Vienna and Bratislava

Liwaa Yazji’s HAUNTED, which is reflecting the relation of Syrians to their homes in times of war, is showing this month at the Human Rights Film Festival Vena and at A4 cultural center in Bratislava.

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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6. Special

Together with Egyptian director Hala Galal and Jordanian actress Saba Mubarak, Irit Neidhardt (mec film) is serving as jury member of the Karama Feather Award for Best Short Fiction at Karama Human Rights Film Festival in Amman (Dec 4th till 10th 2015).
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