{"id":216233,"date":"2019-06-24T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=216233"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:30:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:30:27","slug":"african-film-festival-in-sp-to-screen-arab-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/african-film-festival-in-sp-to-screen-arab-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"African Film Festival in SP to feature Arab movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo -Three Arab countries will be represented in the fourth edition of the African Film Festival, to run from July 10 to 17 at CineSesc<\/a> in S\u00e3o Paulo. Out of the 24 movies from 14 countries, four are Arab. From Tunisia, a short film (Brotherhood<\/em>) and a feature film (Look at Me<\/em>); from Morocco, the feature film (Sofia<\/em>); and from Egypt, the short film Koka, The Butcher<\/em>. Altogether, they are 15 feature films and 9 short films among fiction and documentaries, including some previously unseen in Brazil.<\/p>\n

The festival intends to promote the contemporary African cinema in Brazil, with the highlights from those countries, acknowledging the importance of their growing cinema industries, which has produced increasingly more great movies. \u201cIt is also important to stress the prominence of Arab countries, both within and outside Africa, as funders of the African cinemas for the last few decades,\u201d curator Ana Camila Esteves told ANBA.<\/p>\n

For one week, a careful selection of critically acclaimed African and African diasporans movies will be screened for Brazilian viewers. \u201cNorth African countries have a more consolidated cinema production, because they have a better economy and are less dependent on European countries than Sub-Saharan countries,\u201d said Esteves.<\/p>\n

The opening of the festival will be on July 10 at 8:30 pm, with the movie Supa Modo<\/a>, directed by Kenyan filmmaker Likarion Wainaina (Germany, 74 min., 2018). Admission for this session is free. On the other days, there will be four screenings a day, with prices still not announced.<\/p>\n

Sofia<\/strong><\/p>\n

First feature film by Moroccan filmmaker Meryem Benm’Barek, Sofia<\/em><\/a> (Qatar\/France, 80 min., 2018), tells the story of a young woman living with her parents in Casablanca, Morocco. Following a denial of pregnancy, she finds herself illegally giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital leaves her 24h to provide the papers of the father of the child before alerting the authorities. Barek has already directed five short films.<\/p>\n

After the first screening of Sofia<\/em> on Saturday, July 13, there will be a debate with researcher Alessandra Meleiro, who will talk about North African movie industry and the Arab countries\u2019 influence as a film financer in the African country. The second session will take place on Monday, July 15 at 7pm.<\/p>\n