{"id":210582,"date":"2019-03-12T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=210582"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:31:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:31:47","slug":"rio-de-janeiro-hosting-arab-womens-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/rio-de-janeiro-hosting-arab-womens-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio de Janeiro hosting Arab Women\u2019s Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Rio de Janeiro venue Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB) is hosting the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cinema_arabefeminino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arab Women\u2019s Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0this month. The event launched on the 7<sup>th<\/sup> and will run until the 25<sup>th<\/sup>, marking International Women\u2019s Day (March 8<sup>th<\/sup>) by featuring movies by Arab women.<\/p>\n<p>The festival includes 37 feature and short films by international award-winning filmmakers, with sessions free of charge. The movies were made in Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Syria and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>Curated by Analu Bambirra and Ana Fran\u00e7a, the festival kicked off with the Brazilian premiere of <em>The Blessed<\/em>, which won Best Actress in the 2017 Venice International Film Festival, for Lyna Khoudri, and Best Director at the Dubai International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The feature\u2019s diretor Sofia Djama, of Algeria, is at the festival. She taught a masterclass on scriptwriting. The holder of a Literature degree from Algiers University, she will also sit in a discussion after a screening of her movie on the 22<sup>nd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Debates and panels will explore political and social issues touched on by the films. Featured movies include 13 feature films, eight premi\u00e8res and 24 short films \u2013 like <em>Aya<\/em>, a Tunisian-French-Qatari production (pictured at the top of this article). The Festival is a production of Partisane Filmes, with sponsorship from Banco do Brasil via the Culture Incentive Act (Rouanet Act).<\/p>\n<p>Genres will include fiction, documentary and experimental. \u201cRather than purporting to present one single answer to what being an Arab woman is about, we intend ot discuss the many possibilities in picking some of the productions released from the 2000s on. Most of the featured films were not commercially released in Brazil,\u201d Analu Bambirra was quoted as saying in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The Festival\u2019s panels will be: The Arab world in female form: religion, nation and feminisms,\u201d and Palestinian bodies-fictions: filmic thinking in a violated geography.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quick facts <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arab Women\u2019s Film Festival<br \/>\nMarch 7-25<br \/>\nCentro Cultural Banco do Brasil Rio de Janeiro \u2013 Rua Primeiro de Mar\u00e7o, 66 \u2013 Centro \u2013 Rio de Janeiro (RJ)<br \/>\nTo find out more please call +55 21 3808-2020 or go to the Festival\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/culturabancodobrasil.com.br\/portal\/mostra-de-cinema-arabe-feminino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-210574\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event features 37 movies by female Arab filmmakers at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, plus lectures and the presence of directors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2324,"featured_media":210574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[422,145,7724,34487,3838,7722,7725,1827,3561,7723,2354],"class_list":{"0":"post-210582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-arab","9":"tag-arabe","10":"tag-female","11":"tag-feminino-en","12":"tag-film","13":"tag-filmmaker","14":"tag-mostra-de-cinema-arabe-feminino","15":"tag-movie","16":"tag-rio-de-janeiro","17":"tag-woman","18":"tag-women"},"wps_subtitle":"The event features 37 movies by female Arab filmmakers at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, plus lectures and the presence of directors. 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