JCC 2012 / Official Competition / Documentary Feature Film
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- DirectorWilliam Mbaye OusmaneDecember 17, 1962, Mamadou Dia, chairman of Senegal, was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of coup by his friend and companion Leopold Sedar Senghor. Fifty years later, while the 2012 presidential campaign stirred countries around the values of democracy, witnesses and actors of the events of 1962 speak.Tanit d'Or
- DirectorNamir Abdel MesseehStarsSiham Abdel MesseehNamir Abdel MesseehThe filmmaker goes to Egypt, his country of origin, to film a documentary on the miraculous apparition of the Holy Virgin within the Coptic community of a small village outside of Cairo.Tanit d'Argent
- DirectorWissam CharafBased on the main events in Lebanon since the end of civil war. "All this and more" is a journey through the video images produced by modern Lebanon, a country torn between the delight of senses, warrior's messages and amnesia.Tanit de Brnze
- DirectorMamadou Kotiki CisséTells the story of Madina who lost her sight in 2002. Madina is the only Malian woman that can play Lora that is an instrument traditionally played by men from Griot families in Africa.1er Mention Spéciale
- DirectorAseel MansourNashaat is a Palestinian fighter who was killed by the Israelis in 1982. When Aseel, Nashaat's nephew, comes across a fact that makes him doubt the circumstances of his uncle's death, he embarks on a quest to find the truth. Not only does this quest lead him to disturbing facts, but it also makes him understand the real reasons behind his broken relationship with his father during his childhood.2ème Mention Spéciale
- DirectorIssam SaidiHabib JOUINI is part of a minority of black musicians of STAMBALI. With his peers, he is doing everything to make this kind of music that might get lost in the maze of globalization survive. He never fails to associate his thirteen year old son in everything he does. Habib JOUINI is torn between his love for Tunis, his hometown, and his need to go in search of his black African roots.
- DirectorBilel BaliMeets the small community of Tunisian Salsa dancers in the spotlight. They tell their Salsa experience and their addiction to this dance. For some of them, like Faten, 26, Salsa was even a catharsis during a painful divorce trial.
- DirectorAbdallah YahyaReflects the fury of life of Tunisian youth and describes the quest of young people who want to move to their dark reality in order to find positive energy. In the neighborhoods of Tunis, a group of young Tunisian rappers seeks to be heard. While these are groups of students who challenge their daily life in a citizen initiative.
- DirectorHamid BenamraStarsMustapha BoutadjineSalah TeskoukTommie SmithYou don't need a gun to be a rebellious cinematographer, but you need to be a witness on your history.
- DirectorPenda HouzangbeJean-Gabriel TregoatAtlantic Produce Togo is a company of the Togolese Free Zone that produces and exports ornamental plant cuttings. Because it guarantees certain benefits to its 90 employees, it is considered a social model in Togo. But after 30 years, Altantic Produce is on the brink of bankruptcy. Tony, a young French-Togolese, decides to buy the company to save the social model. But Altantic Produce's situation remains precarious. Between his financial problems and the pressure of his European customers, Tony has more and more difficulties to guarantee the social perks.
- DirectorAlassane DiagoWomen: mothers, wives, women, fierce working women. For some, the husband immigrated, for others he is simply inactive or paralyzed by an incurable disease, gathered and mobilized for the survival of their homes, are tired and inhabited by a strong desire to denounce injustice and subjugation imposed upon them by the minority of men who lead them.
- DirectorMichel K. ZongoFilmmaker Michel Zongo sets off to the Ivory Coast to find out what happened to his lost brother. Joanny left to go there many years ago and never returned, searching like so many others for work in the more affluent neighboring country.
- DirectorRami NihawiStarsHassan GhossonStruggling to come to terms with his grim past and the consequences of growing up in a post-civil war era, Rami remembers little from his childhood, and so seeks the help of his mother, Nawal, who talks about dreams, fears, chaos and love.
- DirectorViola ShafikStarsEl Hedi ben SalemRudolf Waldemar BremThea EymèszViola Shafik's documentary explores the story of El Hedi ben Salem, a lover and collaborator of provocative German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
- DirectorNatyvel PontalierAndré Ondo Mba lives in Libreville with his two sons in a modest house. He suffers from acute paranoid schizophrenia and is deaf. Over the years, he has developed a graphic art through writing, where he preaches the mythologies that are dictated to him from above.
- DirectorZiad KalthoumThe North, home of wheat and legends; a group of women narrating their stories that are shaped by the pain, sorrow and boldness of their society. These women are distinguished by the way they express their emotions of agony and grief (crying-singing), the way which they inherited from their ancestor's songs which have become people's legends that are still sung up to now.