{"id":260035,"date":"2019-10-16T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=260035"},"modified":"2019-10-21T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:07:55","slug":"43rd-sp-international-film-fest-to-screen-12-arab-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/43rd-sp-international-film-fest-to-screen-12-arab-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"43rd SP International Film Fest to screen 12 Arab movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Twelve Arab movies will be screened during the 43rd<\/sup> S\u00e3o Paulo International Film Festival to run from next Thursday (17) until October 30. Productions and co-productions from Palestine, Egypt, Qatar, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia and Algeria are part of the schedule.<\/p>\n

The selection includes nine fiction films and three documentaries. Palestinian director Elia Suleiman (pictured above<\/em>) will come to S\u00e3o Paulo to participate in the event and receive the Humanity Award on the 25th<\/sup>. According to the organizers, the prize is awarded to people who show humane, social and political issues relevant to their time in a brave, sensible way.<\/p>\n

Three fiction films by Suleiman will be screened at the festival. They are Chronicle of a Disappearance<\/a> (Palestine, 84 min, 1996), Divine Intervention<\/a> (France, Palestine, 92 min, 2002) and his most recent work It Must be Heaven<\/a> (France, Qatar, Germany, Canada, Palestine, Turkey, 97 min, 2019.<\/p>\n

Aside from receiving the award, Suleiman will come to show his most recent movie, which won the Cannes Festival this year and was chosen by Palestine to compete for a spot as best foreign movie in the Academy Awards. The director stars in the feature, a comic saga that investigates what exile and searching for a home mean. Mexican actor Gael Garc\u00eda Bernal is part of the cast.<\/p>\n

The other six Arab fiction movies are Certified Mail<\/a>, the first feature by Egyptian director Hirsham Saqr (Egypt, 95 min, 2019); The Unknown Saint<\/a> by Moroccan filmmaker Alaa Eddine Aljem (Morocco, France, Qatar, 100 min, 2019); Papicha<\/a> by Algerian director Mounia Meddour (France, Algeria, Belgium, Qatar, 106 min, 2019); Tlamess<\/a> by Tunisian director Ala Eddine Slim (Tunisia, France, 120 min, 2019); War Travelers<\/a> by Syrian director Joud Said (Lebanon, Syria, 110 min, 2018); and You Have the Night<\/a> by Croatian director Ivan Salatic (Montenegro, Servia, Qatar, 82 min, 2018).<\/p>\n

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