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.
Taking place this month, the São Paulo International Film Festival will award best feature films in the competition New Directors.
The event will feature 24 movies from the 8th to the 27th in São Paulo, organized by the Institute of Arab Culture with support from the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce.
