{"id":326757,"date":"2023-03-21T10:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T13:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=326757"},"modified":"2023-03-22T11:55:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:55:31","slug":"3rd-arab-womens-film-festival-to-start-tomorrow-in-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/3rd-arab-womens-film-festival-to-start-tomorrow-in-rio\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Arab Women\u2019s Film Festival to start in Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The 3rd<\/sup> Arab Women\u2019s Film Festival<\/strong> will start on Wednesday (22) at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Rio de Janeiro (CCBB-RJ). The event presents a selection of 34 films directed by women portraying a picture of the diversity of the Contemporary Arab cinema. The festival is free, and all films feature subtitles in Portuguese and translation into Brazilian sign language. Pictured above, still of the film Lift Like a Girl.<\/em><\/p>\n

From March 22 to April 10, short, medium-length and feature fiction and documentary films will be screened, most of them previously unreleased in Brazil, from different genres, showing the multiplicity of this cinematography through movies directed by women from eight Arab countries: Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, Algeria and Morocco<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After Rio de Janeiro, the film festival goes to\u00a0CCBB Bras\u00edlia <\/strong>from March 28 to April 17, and then to CCBB S\u00e3o Paulo <\/strong>from April 22 to May 14. The films screened in Bras\u00edlia and S\u00e3o Paulo will be the same screened in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n

Political issues, social criticism, utopias, memory, time, family and masculinities pervade the production by contemporary Arab women filmmakers in a program that includes commented sessions, roundtables, and a masterclass with award-winning director Eliane Raheb<\/strong>, who comes to Brazil especially for the event and will give the class \u201cCreating Characters in Documentary Cinema\u201d on April 2 (Sunday).<\/p>\n

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Still from Miguel\u2019s War<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Raheb, the festival presents the documentary Miguel\u2019s War<\/strong>, a film previously unreleased in Brazil that premiered in the Berlinale section Panlorama in 2021 and won the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film, among other prizes. Raheb comments on her film on April 6 (Thursday).<\/p>\n

Other filmmaker that is coming to Rio de Janeiro for the festival is Syria\u2019s Soudade Kaadan<\/strong>, who will comment on her movie Nezouh<\/strong> on April 7 (Friday), a drama film where 14-year-old Zeina and her family are the last to have stayed in their besieged hometown of Damascus, Syria. The movie was the winner of the Audience Award at the Horizons Extra section at Venice Film Festival.<\/p>\n

The opening film <\/strong>of the 3rd<\/sup> Arab Women\u2019s Film Festival is the previous unreleased in Brazil feature film Lift Like a Girl<\/strong> by Egyptian director Mayye Zayed<\/strong>. The Golden Dove winner documentary tell the story of a 14-year-old girl who trains in the elite champion training facility in Egypt to compete internationally as a weightlifter.<\/p>\n

Other feature films<\/strong> in the program are premiering in Brazil like Foragers<\/strong> by Palestine\u2019s Jumana Manna<\/strong>, which depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine with wry humor and a meditative pace; Purple Sea<\/strong> by Amel Alzakout and Khaled Abdulwahed, a documentary showing the boat course from Turkey to Greece taken by the director; The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting<\/strong> and The Nubah of the Women of Mount Chenoua <\/strong>by Algerian writer Assia Djebar, who died in 2015; and the restored copy of The hour of liberation has arrived <\/strong>by Lebanese director Heiny Srour, the first film by an Arab woman to be selected and screened at the Cannes Film Festival<\/p>\n

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Still of Life on the CAPS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of the 21 short films<\/strong> to be screened, 14 are premiering in Brazil like As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night <\/strong>by Palestinian director Larissa Sansour; Trilogy: Life on the CAPS<\/strong> by Moroccan artist Meriem Bennani; and The Window <\/strong>by Lebanon\u2019s Sarah Kaskas.<\/p>\n

The program also includes tributes to filmmakers Meriem Bennani <\/strong>(Moroccan visual artist who works with animation and contemporary art), Azza El Hassan <\/strong>(Palestinian director who founded film restoration, curatorship and production project The Void Project) and Basma Alsharif<\/strong> (Palestinian visual artist and director).<\/p>\n

By Morocco\u2019s Meriem Bennani, the festival screens Trilogy: Life on the CAPS and her short film 2 Lizards<\/strong>, both unreleased in Brazil. By Palestine\u2019s Basma AlSharif, three short films: Home Movies Gaza<\/strong>, A Field Guide to the Ferns, and We Began by Measuring Distances. Palestinian director Azza El Hassan is represented by her two feature films News Time<\/strong> and Kings and Extras.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s edition is curated<\/strong> by Brazil\u2019s Analu Bambirra and Carol Almeida and Egypt\u2019s Alia Ayman. \u201cIn its third edition, the festival reaffirms its interest in presenting a portray of the Arab film production. In this edition, besides noticing the intersection of cinema and visual arts (through directors like Meriem Bennani, Basma Alsharif, Larissa Sansour and Jumana Mana), we reinforce how diverse and rich the Arab cinema is, going from traditional narratives to new film forms and experiments. The films that we show represent fresh images, ones we believe the Brazilian should have more access to,\u201d the curators were quoted as saying in a statement.<\/p>\n

The project is held by Partisane Filmes, sponsored by Banco do Brasil and supported by Arsenal \u2013 Institut f\u00fcr Film und Videokunst.<\/p>\n

To watch the movies, you have to take the ticket at the box office of the CCBB or on the website, starting 9 am on the day of the session. For more information and the full program of the festival in Rio de Janeiro, visit its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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