{"id":297728,"date":"2021-08-26T13:18:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=297728"},"modified":"2021-08-30T18:14:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T21:14:54","slug":"film-festival-brings-arab-directors-to-online-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/film-festival-brings-arab-directors-to-online-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"Film festival brings Arab directors to online debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The 16th Arab World Film Festival at Home will promote virtual debates with Arab directors. The meetings will be broadcasted live on Brazil\u2019s Arab Culture Institute (ICArabe) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RxjQDWkGf74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>. The festival is organized by ICArabe, co-organized by the Brazilian Social Service for Commerce (SESC) of the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, and sponsored by the Arab House, the cultural center of the <strong>Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (ABCC). <em>Pictured above, Iraqi diaspora director Samir Jamal Aldin<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The first roundtable will be this Friday (27) and will discuss the films \u201c200 Meters\u201d and \u201cScrewdriver\u201d (\u201cMafak\u201d). The works have never been released before in Brazil and will be screened at the exhibition. Ameen Nayfeh, the Palestinian director of \u201c200 Meters,\u201d and Shrihari Sathe, the Indian producer of \u201cScrewdriver,\u201d will participate.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the filmmakers, the meeting will also have the participation of Maria Aparecida Aquino, historian and head professor at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), and moderation by journalist Diogo Bercito.<\/p>\n<p>The second debate will occur on September 1, at 5:00 pm BRT, discussing the feature \u201cWe are from there\u201d and the short film \u201cIn Memoriam.\u201d On the occasion, the guests will be Wissam Tanios, Lebanese director of the first work, and Ot\u00e1vio Cury, the Brazilian filmmaker of the short. Also in the event will be Murilo Meihy, a historian from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and Soraya Smaili, creator of the Arab World Film Festival, who will moderate.<\/p>\n<p>The last meeting will be on September 3, at 7:00 pm BRT. The roundtable will discuss the film \u201cBaghdad in My Shadow,\u201d featuring Samir Jamal Aldin, the film\u2019s director, born in the Iraqi diaspora in Switzerland, and Muna Omran, culturalist and playwright, with moderation by journalist Jos\u00e9 Arbex.<\/p>\n<p>The festival\u2019s online screenings started on August 20 and will run until September 16, 2021. Each week the organization makes available a new work to be watched for free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quick facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Round tables of the 16th Arab World Film Festival<br \/>\nAugust 27, September 1, and 3<br \/>\nOn ICArabe\u2019s YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RxjQDWkGf74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RxjQDWkGf74<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Film screenings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From August 20 to September 2<br \/>\nFestival\u2019s website: <a href=\"https:\/\/mundoarabe2021.icarabe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mundoarabe2021.icarabe.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From August 20 to September 16<br \/>\nSESC&#8217;s Digital Platform: <a href=\"https:\/\/sesc.digital\/colecao\/cinema-em-casa-com-sesc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sescsp.org.br\/cinemaemcasa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting this Friday (27), the Arab World Film Festival at Home will hold discussions with directors of some of the films on its program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":297719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[9586,5083,23267,5701,9231,3784,34389,10235,591,10647,34721,9897],"class_list":{"0":"post-297728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-lebanon-en","9":"tag-arab-cinema","10":"tag-arab-directors","11":"tag-arab-films","12":"tag-arab-movies","13":"tag-arab-world-film-festival","14":"tag-filmes-arabes-en","15":"tag-icarabe-en","16":"tag-iraq","17":"tag-libano-ar","18":"tag-mostra-mundo-arabe-en","19":"tag-palestine-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Starting this Friday (27), the Arab World Film Festival at Home will hold discussions with directors of some of the films on its program.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}