1. HAUNTED in Kashmir
2. IN THE FUTURE THEY ATE FROM THE FINEST PORCELAIN in Groningen and Marseille
3. A SPACE EXODUS in Mexico City
4. NATION ESTATE in Strasbourg
5. AND ON A DIFFERENT NOTE in Marseille
6. Larissa Sansour’s Sci-Fi Trilogy in Australia, Canada and Switzerland
7. DRY HOT SUMMERS in Hamburg
8. event / publication
9. VOD of the month – Larissa Sansour’s Sci-Fi Trilogy
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1. HAUNTED in Kashmir

HAUNTED by Liwaa Yazji is touring Kashmir/India with the IAWRT, the International Association of Women in Radio & Television, India section's travelling festival commencing November 1st, 2017.

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“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.
documentary, Liwaa Yazji, Syria 2014, 112 or 63 min,  Arabic with English ST, several other languages are available
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2. IN THE FUTURE THEY ATE FROM THE FINEST PORCELAIN in Groningen and Marseille

Larissa Sansour's and Soren Lind's Sci-fi shows at the program NUCLEUS, imagining science at the Noorderlicht Photofestival 2017 from October 22nd till November 26st 2017 in Groningen/The Netherlands. On November 26th the film shows at Mucem in Marseille/ France.

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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.
short Sci-fi, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, Palestine / UK / Denmark / Qatar 2015, 29 min, cinescope, color, Arabic with Engl. or French ST
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3. A SPACE EXODUS in Mexico City

On November 1st, 2017 Larissa Sansour’s A SPACE EXODUS shows at Kosmica in Mexico City.

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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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4. NATION ESTATE in Strasbourg

Larissa Sansour's short film is on daily gallery display in the framework of the Strasbourg-Mediterranean Festival between November 25th and December 9th, 2017.

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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.
short Sci-fi, Larissa Sansour, Palestine/Denmark 2012, 9 min, digital, no dialogue
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5. AND ON A DIFFERENT NOTE in Marseille

AND ON A DIFFERENT NOTE by Mohammad Shawky Hassan is presented at Mucem in Marseille / France on November 26th.

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Today in this house nothing happens, nor does it in the homes of others. Time and place stand on parallel lines, refuting the coordinates of existence. The chronology of events is obscured, subversive noise is obliterated, elucidation impossible and language futile. All that remains is a soundscape perpetually occupied by self-proclaimed patriots, and scattered spaces carved by the rhythm of everyday life, all conspiring to maintain the status quo while hiding the humming background noise of the world.
And on a Different Note is a navigation of an attempt to carve out a personal space amid an inescapable sonic shield created primarily by prime time political talk shows with their indistinguishable, absurd and at times undecipherable rhetoric/ noises. Equally repulsive and addictive, these noises travel across geographies gradually constituting an integral part of a self-created map of exile.
short film, Egypt 2015, 24 mins, Color, Arabic/ English with English/Arabic Subtitles
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6. Larissa Sansour’s Sci-Fi Trilogy in Australia, Canada and Switzerland

LARISSA SANSOUR'S SCI-FI TRILOGY can be seen at the at Castlemaine Local and International Film Festival in Australia on November 18th, 2017, at the 8th edition of the Regards Palestiniens Montréal in Canada at the Cinémathèque québécoise as well as at the Rencontres Cinématographiques Palestine Filmer c'est exister in Geneva / Switzerland, both at the end of November.

Content
Under the common themes of loss, belonging, heritage and national identity, the three films A Space Exodus (2008), Nation Estate (2012) and In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (2015) each explore different aspects of the political turmoil the Middle East.
While A Space Exodus envisions the final uprootedness of the Palestinian experience and takes the current political predicament to its extra-terrestrial extreme by landing the first Palestinian on the moon, Nation Estate reveals a sinister account of an entire population restricted to a single skyscraper, with each Palestinian city confined to a single floor. In the trilogy’s final instalment, In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain, a narrative resistance leader engages in archaeological warfare in a desperate attempt to secure the future of her people. Using the language of sci-fi and glossy production, Sansour’s trilogy presents a dystopian vision of a Middle East on the brink of the apocalypse.
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7. DRY HOT SUMMERS in Hamburg

Sherif Elbendary's short film shows at the Augenblicke Africa Film Festival in Hamburg (Germany) on November 11th.

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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.
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8. event / publication

At the Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage (Tunisia) Irit Neidhardt was panelist on November 6th, 2017 at the Chartage Talks: Reality and perspectives of African and Arab film distribution. Panelist: Jean Hubert Nankam: DIFFA Distribution (Ivory Coast and France), Kais Zaied: Hakka Distribution (Tunisia), Zama Mkosi: The National Film and Video Foundation (South Africa), Irit Neidhardt: mec film (Germany), Moderator: Riadh Ferjani
Moreover she was invited as expert to the Producer's Network of the festival's industry section Chartage Pro.
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Publication: Irit Neidhardt's TV-review on Nidals List - Allah's Warriors in Europe was published at fr-online.de on November 7th, 2017 (in German language only).
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9. VOD of the month – Larissa Sansour’s Sci-Fi Trilogy

Larissa Sansour’s Sci-Fi Trilogy is now online for streaming at out VOD partner realeyz.
view online: A Space Exodus | Nation Estate | In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain
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