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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Thirty-four films directed by Arab women will be screened at CCBB Rio de Janeiro from March 22 to April 10. The festival will then move on to Brasília and São Paulo.
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.’
After two years solely in an online format, film screenings are also taking place in person again in the capital of São Paulo. Festival organizers and supporters spoke at the opening this Wednesday (31).
Geraldo Adriano Godoy de Campos spreads the Arab culture across Brazil. In his most recent challenge, he’s helping establish an international center for Arab and Islamic studies in Sergipe.
Brazilian ambassador Alessandro Candeas and other representatives of Latin American countries met with Palestinian minister of Culture and discussed holding cinema and literature activities in 2022.
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.
Classes are free and will be taught from May 13 to 24 at CINUSP, in São Paulo. Egyptian, Algerian, Syrian, Tunisian, Palestinian and Lebanese movies will be covered.
In her first visit to Brazil, Hiam Abbass, who’s also a director, gave an interview to ANBA. She produced the play ‘France Against the Robots’, based on the namesake book by author Georges Bernanos, who lived in the country for ten years.
