The 18th Arab World Film Festival opened this Thursday (31) at Cinesesc in São Paulo. The first screening was ‘Mother Valley,’ in which women in a Lebanese village endure the reality of the local patriarchy, the 1958 conflict, and the desire for freedom.
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Tunisia, Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Lebanon and Qatar are the countries involved in the titles. Other three films are co-productions with Qatar, an Arab country that has heavily invested in international productions. The festival runs until November 2.
Assistant manager of CineSesc, Yunes was one of the founders of the Arab World Film Festival. She is a Lebanese Brazilian and talks about what it was like growing up in that culture.
Brazil’s Arab World Film Festival will hold online discussions with the participation of Syrian director Ameer Fakhr al Din and Jordanian Darin J. Sallam, director of ‘Farha.’
Starting this Friday (27), the Arab World Film Festival at Home will hold discussions with directors of some of the films on its program.
Executives from SESC, ICArabe and the Arab Brazilian Chamber spoke at this year’s festival opening. The event is online, and the screenings start this Friday (20).
One of the works is directed by Brazil’s Otavio Cury. The films will be screened on the Festival and SESC’s digital platforms. This year’s edition will rn from August 20 to September 16.
The company created a USD 500,000 fund in partnership with an art and culture institution to support film and television crews whose activities were hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In virtual event, representatives of Icarabe, ABCC and SESC-SP talked about the films of the festival that is taking place online this year, the pandemic and Lebanon’s tragedy.
From September 10 to December 2, Brazil African Film Festival will screen movies from eight different countries in the Cine África project on Cinema em Casa com SESC’s website.
Taking place this month, the São Paulo International Film Festival will award best feature films in the competition New Directors.
