1. IN VITRO and IN THE FUTURE THEY ATE FROM THE FINEST PORCELAIN by Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind in Geneva
2. ERASED,___ASCENT OF THE INVISIBLE in December
3. WAJIB by Annemarie Jacir in Hamburg
4. COUNTING TILES in Abu Dhabi
5. Arabic Homepage online
6. season holidays
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1. IN VITRO and IN THE FUTURE THEY ATE FROM THE FINEST PORCELAIN by Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind in Geneva

The two science fiction films by Larissa Sansour & Soren Lind show at the festival Palestine Filmer C’est Exister in Geneva (Switzerland).

IN VITRO
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In Vitro is set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above.
In the hospital wing of the underground compound, the orchard’s ailing founder, 70-year-old Dunia (Hiam Abbas) is lying in her deathbed, as 30-year-old Alia (Maisa Abd Elhadi) comes to visit her. Alia is born underground as part of a comprehensive cloning program and has never seen the town she’s destined to rebuild.
short Sci-fi, Larissa Sansour & Soren Lind, Palestine/Denmark/UK 2019, 28 min, digital, picture ratio 1:2.66, Arabic with English subtitles
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IN THE FUTURE THEY ATE FROM THE FINEST PORCELAIN
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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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2. ERASED,___ASCENT OF THE INVISIBLE in December

Ghassan Halwani's essay documentary shows in December at This Human World Festival in Vienna (Austria), Which Human Rights? in Istanbul (Turkey), at the "2640" in Baltimore (USA) and at the Cinematheque Bogota (Columbia) in the special screening of the Best of Bogota International Film Festival. Furthermore it is part of the exhibition Beirut Lab: 1975(2020) at the University Art Galleries of the University of California in Irvine (USA), running through December 2019.
 
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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 subtitles
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3. WAJIB by Annemarie Jacir in Hamburg

Annmarie Jacir's multi-award winning film continues showing at German cinemas. On December 17th it is presented at Metropolis Cinema in Hamburg, in January the tour goes on in Frankfurt-Hoechst.

all updated screening dates here

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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
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4. COUNTING TILES in Abu Dhabi

Cynthia Choucair's feature documentary is presented in a film program on humor and tolerance on December 6th at Manarat al Saadiyat at Abu Dhabi (UAE).

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A group of clowns travel to the Greek island of Lesvos on a mission to bring laughter to the waves of refugees crossing the sea to escape from war and enter Europe. Unwittingly, the clowns find themselves greeted with closed gates witnessing the effects of new policies enacted by the European Union towards the refugees.
Cynthia, the sister of one of the clowns, joins them on their journey which slowly becomes a reflection on the sisters’ own tale of displacement during the Lebanese civil war.
documentary, Cynthia Choucair, Lebanon 2018, 87 min, Arabic with Engl. ST
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5. Arabic Homepage online

mec film is happy to announce that the Arabic version of the homepage is finally online. There are still some minor works to do, yet you can use it.
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6. season holidays

The mec film office closes between December 23rd 2019 and January 2nd 2020.
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