1. ERASED,___ASCENT OF THE INVISIBLE in England, Brazil and Kosovo
2. HAUNTED in Paris
3. PANOPTIC in Brazil and England
4. WAJIB in German cinemas
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1. ERASED,___ASCENT OF THE INVISIBLE in England, Brazil and Kosovo

Ghassan Halwani's feature documentary is showed in July at the Shubbak Festival at the Barbican in London. In August the film is presented at DOKU:FEST in Prizren (Kosovo) in the presence of the director as well as at the Arab Cinema Festival in Sao Paulo (Brazil).

Content
Thirty-five years ago, I witnessed the kidnapping of a man I know.
He has disappeared since.
Ten years ago, I caught a glimpse of his face while walking in the street, but I wasn’t sure it was him.
Parts of his face were torn off, but his features had remained unchanged since the incident. Yet something was different, as if he wasn’t the same man.
essay-documentary, Lebanon 2018, color and black & white, 76 min, Arabic and English with English, French or Spanish subtitles
more about the film
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2. HAUNTED in Paris

Liwaa Yazji feature documentary is invited in the end of July / beginning of August to the Festival Syrien N’est Fait... in Paris (France).

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.
documentary, Liwaa Yazji, Syria 2014, 112 or 63 min,  Arabic with English ST, several other languages are available
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3. PANOPTIC in Brazil and England

Rana Eid's as private as political film showed in July at the Shubbak Festival in London. In August the film is presented at the Arab Film Festival Sao Paulo in Brazil.

Content
Panoptic is a letter from a daughter to her deceased father in an attempt to reconcile with her country’s turbulent past.
Panoptic delves into Beirut’s underground to explore Lebanon’s schizophrenia: a nation that thrives for modernity while ironically ignoring the vices that obstruct achieving this modernity.
While the Lebanese population has chosen to turn a blind eye to these vices, Rana Eid, an ordinary citizen, explores the nation’s paradoxes through sound, iconic monuments and secret hidings.
documentary, Rana Eid, Lebanon 2017, 69 min, Arabic with Engl. or French ST
more about the film
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4. WAJIB in German cinemas

On September 19th, 2019 Annemarie Jacir's multi-award winning WAJIB will open in German cinemas.

A whip-smart, moving comedy of family and community. (CineVue)

Big ideas and the everyday frictions of family elide in this sensitive, impressive Palestinian drama. (Time Out)

Content
Abu Shadi is a divorced father and a school teacher in his mid-60s living in Nazareth. After his daughter’s wedding in one month he will be living alone. Shadi, his architect son, arrives from Rome after years abroad to help his father in hand delivering the wedding invitations as per local Palestinian custom. As the estranged pair spend the day together, the tense details of their relationship come to a head challenging their fragile and very different lives.
fiction, Annemarie Jacir, Palestine/France/Germany/Colombia/Norway/Qatar/UAE 2017, 96 min, DCP, Arabic with German ST
more in English | more in German/Arabic
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5. mec film opening hours in August

In August the office is not operating on a regular basis. Emails will be collected every second day.