{"id":259963,"date":"2019-10-15T12:55:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T15:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=259963"},"modified":"2019-10-15T18:28:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T21:28:30","slug":"arab-movie-fest-to-run-in-sao-paulo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arab-movie-fest-to-run-in-sao-paulo\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab movie fest to run in S\u00e3o Paulo"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The 14th Arab World Film Festival will resume its program next Wednesday (16) at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB) in S\u00e3o Paulo. The festival had a first part in August at CineSesc<\/a>, and now has a program at CCBB until October 28. Tunisian filmmaker Lofti Achour, who directed \u201cBurning Hope\u201d and \u201cLaw of Lamb,\u201d will be in Brazil from next Thursday (17) to Saturday and have an event with the public.<\/p>\n

The event is held by the Institute of Arab Culture (Icarabe<\/a>) and CCBB SP, and is cosponsored by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/a><\/strong> and the Federation of Muslim Associations in Brazil (Fambras), Instituto do Sono and Alian\u00e7a Francesa. Twenty movies will be screened divided into three themes, namely \u201cMemory and its encounters,\u201d \u201cThe Flame of Insurrection\u201d and \u201cFrom the Limit to the Displacement.\u201d<\/p>\n

The festival\u2019s curator and ICArabe cultural director Arthur Jafet says that the productions address the political, social and cultural scenario in the Arab countries. The common thread are the challenges in the region during the refugees\u2019 crisis, terror, post-colonialism, the impacts of the Arab Spring, the clamor for more freedom of speech, but also the return to origins, memory and the analysis of the past against a new scenario that is unfolding.<\/p>\n

\u201cBurning Hope\u201d by Achour was never screened in Brazil. The movie is about an unlikely friendship between two young women and a teenager, their disillusionment and hopes amid historical contradictions after the revolution. \u201cLaw of Lamb,\u201d also unheard of in Brazil, is a comedy where an old man and his grandson travel along a road in the Tunisian desert to sell their sheep and are stopped by two policemen who offers a unusual deal.<\/p>\n

A playwright, theater and cinema producer and director, Lofti Achour will chat with the public next Saturday at 5:30 pm together with International Law professor at Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Getulio Vargas, Salem Hikmat Nasser.<\/p>\n

Besides the Tunisian director\u2019s movies, this festival edition also features \u201cGhost Hunting,\u201d \u201cCorps \u00c9tranger,\u201d \u201cOf Fathers and Sons,\u201d and \u201cThe Reports on Sarah and Saleem.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first one is a documentary by Palestinian director Raed Andoni about an eclectic group of former inmates brought together by the filmmaker to build a replica of Al-Moskobiya, the main interrogation center of Israel. The drama \u201cCorps \u00c9tranger\u201d by Tunisian filmmaker Raja Amari shows Samia looking for refugee for her brother, a radical Islamist, and finds love in the house of a wealthy widow who she\u2019ll work to.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf Fathers and Sons\u201d is a documentary by Syrian director Talal Derki where he retells his return to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing a rare insight of what it means to grown in an Islamic caliphate. \u201cThe Reports on Sarah and Salee\u201d is a drama by Palestinian director Muayad Alayan, where he tells the story of an Israeli woman called Sarah, who runs a caf\u00e9 in West Jerusalem, and Saleem a Palestinian man from East Jerusalem that work as a delivery guy. They have an affaire that may break their families.<\/p>\n

Brazilian filmmaker Joy Ernanny, who directed \u201cBehind the Veil\u201d, will participate in an event with the audiences on next Friday, October 18, at 7:45 pm after her film is screened at 5:30 pm. It\u2019s a documentary about a new beauty salon in New York that becomes a refuge for Muslim women. Besides her, the chat will feature researcher, linguist and professor at the Department of Eastern Languages of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, Mona Mohamad Hawi.<\/p>\n

Quick facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

14\u00aa Arab World Film Festival
\nCentro Cultural Banco do Brasil S\u00e3o Paulo (CCBB SP)
\nOctober 16 to 28, 2019
\nRua \u00c1lvares Penteado, 112 \u2013 Centro – S\u00e3o Paulo – SP
\nFind out more at: mundoarabe2019.icarabe.org<\/a>
\nOr call to +55 (11) 3113-3651\/3652 or email: ccbbsp@bb.com.br<\/a>
\nTickets: BRL 5-10 (USD 1-2)<\/p>\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

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