JCC 2010 / Official Competition / Documentary Feature Films
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- DirectorRaed AndoniInspired by his own psychological excavations, Andoni develops the concept to apply to modern-day Palestine, a project that inspires this witty, personal and compelling film. Featuring a colorful array of characters, including members of the director's own family, Andoni explores the individual memories of Palestinians, whose life experiences have been shaped by military occupation, oppression of the people and continuous erosion of citizens' rights. In a place so dominated by collective consciousness and identity, finding individuality becomes the focus of this fascinating - and moving - study.Tanit d'Or
- DirectorMahmoud KaabourStarsFatima el GhoulMahmoud KaabourEva SayreA poetic documentary that puts a feisty Beiruti grandmother at the center of brave film exercises designed to commemorate her many worlds before they are erased by the passage of time and her eventual death. With great intimacy, the film documents the larger-than-life character Teta Fatima as she struggles to cope with the silence of her once-buzzing house and imagines what awaits her beyond death. Meanwhile, the features of her beloved violinist husband (deceased 20 years) manifest through the face of their filmmaker grandson while his previously unpublished violin improvisations weave through her world and that of the film. It brings together grandfather, grandmother and grandson in a magic-realist documentary that aims to defy a past death and a future one.
- DirectorHichem Ben AmmarStarsBacem Anas RomdhaniIn a popular suburb of Tunis, a fanfare trombonist dreamed that his son, Anès, would become a great musician. Appropriating the father's dream, the child has developed extraordinary skills in the practice of the violin. He won several competitions and finally gained access to London's prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School. The film traces the stages of this extraordinary journey, the obstacles that Anès encounters, his evolution during his exile in Europe.
- DirectorFethi SaidiAugust 22, 2008, a boat leaves Libya headed towards Italy. On board are Mohamed, a Tunisian, and 350 others wanting to immigrate illegally. After 36 hours on board, they arrive at the island of Lampedusa. A new life starts for Mohamed.
- DirectorMalek BensmaïlThe history of the war led by the FLN (National Liberation Front) in France, taking a popular revolution into an occupying country for the first time.
- DirectorDieudo HamadiKiripi Katembo SikuDivita Wa LusalaA quartet of powerful, hard-hitting short films that lay bare the disturbing reality of everyday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- DirectorMaher Abi SamraA reflection on the destinies of comrades who were once bound by ideologies and remain tightly knit friends, We Were Communists an uninhibited examination of the legacy of Lebanon's civil war and its post-war present. Four men recount their stories from the battlefield, their broken dreams, and their eventual disillusionment in light of the country's unsettled crises. Artistically and politically audacious, incisive and tender, the film travels the chimeric and daunting reality of Lebanon's fractured post-war landscape. As sectarian leaders continue to strengthen their hold over political discourse, the film poses serious questions regarding the country's future.
- DirectorJean-Marie TénoStarsJules Cesar BamouniNanema BoubakarAbbo OuedraogoCameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Téno profiles a poor but lively neighborhood in the capital of Burkina Faso, where a cine club proprietor tries to include Burkinabe films among the action and Bollywood fare.
- DirectorMohammad BakriZahara is a Palestinian woman, from the village of al-Bane in the Galilee. Beginning with her childhood before the 1948 war, this compelling documentary takes us through the country's turbulent history, as seen through the eponymous heroine's eyes, and the perspectives of those around her. As Zahara grows, we experience the violent establishment of Israel, subsequent life under martial law (1948-1966), and the radical transformation of Palestinian society from a majority to a disenfranchised minority in their own homeland.
- DirectorTahani RachedGarden City, a small but pivotal neighborhood. Since the turn of the 19th century, it has been the seat of the world's political powers in the Egyptian capital. The film takes us on a journey through abandoned villas, opulent salons, foreign embassies, threatened businesses and rooftop living rooms. Houses turn into witnesses as they make flesh of history's turmoil. Residents and dwellings become a voice telling a story of hope, rupture and endurance. Far from political correctness, all stereotypes dropped, a glimpse of truth comes into view. An allegory of contemporary Egypt, the film challenges us to reflect as well on the security obsessions of our world today.
- DirectorAlassane DiagoThe story of my mother who's been waiting for my father who left 20 years ago. It's also the story of my sister who's been waiting for her husband who left five years ago and my niece who has never seen her father.
- DirectorManthia DiawaraStarsEdouard GlissantManthia Diawara follows Édouard Glissant whose theories of creolization, diversity and otherness are considered as seminal texts for the emerging studies of multiculturalism, identity politics, minority literature and Black Atlanticism.
- DirectorJalil DaoudIn order to get to know his son better, the director takes him to Morocco, on the traces of his own father whom he never knew.