Arquivo da Categoria: 2023

Once Again

10º Edição – OLHARES DO MEDITERRÂNEO 2023
MELHOR CURTA BEST SHORT COMPETIÇÃO COMEÇAR A OLHAR SCHOOL FILM COMPETITION
OUÇA AQUI LISTEN TO GIULIA DI MAGGIO

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SÁB 11 NOV • 19H00 | CINEMA SÃO JORGE • SALA 3
COM A PRESENÇA DA REALIZADORA THE DIRECTOR WILL BE PRESENT

UNA VOLTA ANCORA
Giulia Di Maggio

Itália Doc 2022 17’

Uma viagem pitoresca pela sucessão de estações numa praia siciliana, desde os Invernos desertos às coloridas multidões do Verão. Na ausência de palavras, temos apenas o som de três existências inusitadas: a vida dura de uma cabana de praia, o olhar atento de uma câmara de vigilância e a tenacidade de uma velha imprudente. Uma carta de amor a um lugar que nos convida a ter outro olhar sobre o mundo.

A picturesque journey through the changing seasons on a Sicilian beach, from its desert Winters to its colourful Summer crowds. No words, just the sound of three unusual existences: the hard life of a beach cabin, the careful eye of a surveillance camera, and the tenacity of a reckless old woman. A love letter to a place, inviting us to change the point of view with which we look at the world.

Argumento Screenplay Giulia Di Maggio
Produção Production Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Fotografia Cinematography Giulia Di Maggio
Montagem Editing Giulia Di Maggio
Música Music Luca Rizzo
Direcção de Arte Art Design Giulia Di Maggio
Design de Som Sound Design Giulia Di Maggio | Danilo Romancino
Com With Maria Raitano
Distribuidor Distributor Giulia Di Maggio
Escola School Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

Estreia Nacional Portuguese Première

Prémios Awards
Itália New Talents Award, Visioni Dal Mondo, Milano | Prémio Competição Nacional, Lago FF | Menção Honrosa, Siciliambiente, S Vito Lo Capo | Melhor Documentário, Paradiso FF, Palazzo Adriano | Melhor Filme, Festa del Cinema Pirata, San Benedetto del Tronto | Melhor Realização, Torino Contemporanea | Menção  Honrosa, Fano FF | Quartos de Final, Student World Impact FF
Estreia internacional em Vision du Réel, Nyon, Suíça
Festivais Festivals
Evolution Mallorca, Espanha | Poitiers FF, França || Itália Visioni Italiane, Bologna | Documentaria, Palermo | Soleluna, Palermo | Effetto Notte, Rome | Pianeta Mare FF, Napoli | Front Doc, Aosta || AFFR, Rotterdam, Países Baixos | Spektrum FF, Polónia

Nota da Realizadora Director’s Statement
Once again is a visual story, an immersive experience, in which words are not important. It is a voyage to do by holding your breath, letting the eyes, as the mind, free to explore the worlds that a beach contains. The film is set in a sicilian beach, but it could be any other beach in the world: what matters is that this place is in a permanent transformation, following an eterne cycling motion. Winter and then summer, and again winter and so on. In this story, which is by nature anti-narrative, people, as objects and animals, are on a level of equal importance, just inhabitants of a space: he is the main character. A space that is crossed, observed, excavated, leveled, delimited and then freed. A multifaceted place that welcomes and only rarely rejects. The camera moves with irony and curiosity, always changing its point of view. After sketching the microcosm on the sand, she flies into the sky to observe the macrocosm from above, and after the long winter it doesn’t hesitate to dive into the water to observe bodies swimming above her. This short movie is a love letter to Palermo’s beach: my attempt to recover the curious and loving gaze that I had when I observed this beach as a child.

A exibição deste filme teve o apoio do Istituto Italiano di Cultura | The exhibition of this film has had the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura

 

 

 

 

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The Artichoke Season

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QUI 9 NOV • 17H00 | CINEMA SÃO JORGE • SALA 3

LA SAISON DES ARTICHAUTS
Orna Rottenberg

Israel Fic 2022 9’

Memórias da infância de Rosalie, de 10 anos, quando o seu pai sai de casa. Enquanto Rosalie se refugia nas árvores de borracha das ilhas Galápagos, a mãe tenta preservar o delicado ideal de uma família. Ambas agarradas à esperança, mergulhando na fantasia, onde o escapismo é a cura.

Childhood memories of 10-year-old Rosalie when her father leaves their home. While Rosalie escapes to rubber trees in the Galapagos islands, her mother tries to preserve the delicate ideal of a family. Both are clinging to hope and plunging into fantasy where escapism is the cure.

Argumento Screenplay Orna Rottenberg
Produção Production Orna Rottenberg
Fotografia Cinematography Orna Rottenberg, Boris Haimov, Ido Chen
Montagem Editing Orna Rottenberg, Ido Chen
Música Music Omer Hershman
Direcção de Arte Art Design Orna Rottenberg
Design de Som Sound Design Keren Or Bitton
Com With Sol Zimberoff, Michal Amit, Amir Frenkel, Liad Zucker
Distribuidor Distributor Costanza Film Distribution
Escola School Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem

Estreia Nacional Portuguese Première

Prémios Awards
Selecção oficial Tribeca FF, NY, EUA
Festivais Festivals
Brussels Mediterranean FF, Bélgica || EUA Tribeca FF, NY | Boston Jewish FF | Palm Beach Jewish FF | San Francisco Jewish FF | San Diego Jewish Short FF | San Diego FF || Short Encounters IFF, Thessaloniki, Grécia | Intl Documentary & Short FF of Kerala, Índia | SorsiCorti Short FF, Palermo, Itália | UK Jewish FF, Reino Unido

WEBSITE PRESSKIT

Nota da Realizadora Director’s Statement
The film is based on the childhood memories of the director, when her parents got divorced and she had to move with her mother from peaceful Switzerland to a poor suburb of Tel Aviv, Israel.

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The Sun Sets On Beirut

10º Edição – OLHARES DO MEDITERRÂNEO 2023
MENÇÃO HONROSA HONORABLE MENTION COMPETIÇÃO COMEÇAR A OLHAR SCHOOL FILM COMPETITION
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DOM 12 NOV • 14H00 | CINEMA SÃO JORGE • SALA 3

https://vimeo.com/800575021?share=copy

Daniela Stephan
Reino Unido, Líbano Fic 2022 17’

Mounia, uma jovem de 20 e tal anos, procura o seu gato numa cidade agora destruída, Beirute. Acompanhada pelo seu melhor amigo Ghady, que está mais interessado em namoriscar uma jornalista britânica, embarca numa jornada para descobrir o que lhe foi tirado.

Mounia, a girl in her 20s, is looking for her cat in a now-destroyed city, Beirut. Accompanied by her best friend Ghady, who is more interested in flirting with a British journalist, she embarks on a journey to find what has been taken from her.

Argumento Screenplay Daniela Stephan
Produção Production Kassey Song and Fayez Abou Khater
Fotografia Cinematography Fatma Rasha Shehadeh
Montagem Editing Daniela Stephan
Música Music Hayat Selim
Direcção de Arte Art Design Rania Habbouchi
Design de Som Sound Design Tony Elk
Com With Marilyne Naaman, Pio Chihane, Jo McGarry, Salma Chalaby
Escola School London Film School

Estreia Nacional  Portuguese Première

Prémios Awards
Grand Prix, Les Nuits Med, U Filmu Cortu, Córsega, França | Prémio do Público, Menção Honrosa, Beirut Intl Women FF, Líbano
Festivais Festivals
InterFilm Berlin, Alemanha | Lebanese FF, Canadá | Flickers’ Rhode Island IFF, EUA

INSTAGRAM PRESSKIT

Nota da Realizadora Director’s Statement
On the 4th of August 2020 a part of me died, as a person and as a director. The strongest ever non-nuclear bomb exploded in the heart of Beirut, leaving millions homeless, 400 people dead, and thousands injured. The socio-political climate has been charged with so much corruption and uncertainty that somehow the 4th of August blast didn’t feel like a surprise. It felt like a moment that for so many years, we were all, anxiously, anticipating. I had written a completely different script for my graduation film for the London Film School. A story about a group of 16 year old friends, roaming in the streets of Beirut on a school day during a riot. A story I cared deeply about, shedding light on the lost generation of after-war Beirut, an almost anarchic city. A portrait of Beirut and its youth. Then, all of sudden while wrapping up the final script the Beirut Blast happened: my locations were all in rubbles, I didn’t have a film, no more city, and my cat was lost. What is the purpose of making a film in the face of such tragedy? I found myself feeling guilty searching for my cat knowing that others had lost so much more. I didn’t want to make a film anymore and questioned the medium itself. Then after a couple of months I started writing again and somehow, convinced myself that even if cinema wasn’t here to drastically change anything, it is nonetheless a medium of questions, and community and… I had to survive. So I made “The Sun Sets On Beirut”. We didn’t want any fancy equipment, as we felt it would be more appropriate to shoot with what we had. It felt wrong to use our budget on fancy cameras when the world we were in had collapsed. We decided to use the budget we had for actors, crew, locations and post-production while leaving the appropriate amount for camera and lights. We went back to the core of storytelling. A docu-fiction style that would permit us to emancipate ourselves as filmmakers from this reality and at the same time portray it. The documentary inspired style al- lowed us to quickly get an emotional connection to the character and thus was a pivotal style choice, because we are able to see Mounia as a real person, highlighting her emotional struggle and inner conflict. Identity, belonging and loss are at the core of what I needed to transmit on images. I have not lived through the war, I had felt it through my everyday life and relationships. The 4th of August brought all of these feelings to the surface. I didn’t want to make a film “about a tragedy” but about the universality of the emotions felt during this period: grief and loss of identity. Showing the destroyed Beirut through Mounia’s eyes I engaged in an attempt to question the themes of loss, identity, intergenerational trauma, and the future of oneself in relation to the past. Roaming the streets, accompanied by her friend Ghady, she finds herself questioning her reality, her future and her identity: Her home has become a living grave. While watching the film, I hope you also laugh, cry and wonder the way I did.

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Witches

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DOM 12 NOV • 11H00 | CINEMA SÃO JORGE • SALA 3

MACHSHEFOT
Liya Daniel Elbashan

Israel Fic 2023 10’

Convencidíssima de que a mãe é uma bruxa, Maya, de oito anos, e o seu melhor amigo espiam-na, empoleirados na casa da árvore no quintal, reunindo mais informações do que aquelas que esperavam.

Eight-year-old Maya is sure her mother is a witch. Together with her best friend they spy on her from the treehouse in the backyard, gathering more information than expected.

Argumento Screenplay Liya Daniel Elbashan
Produção Production Donna Hawa
Fotografia Cinematography Amitai Rosenberg
Montagem Editing Amnon Halbersberg
Música Music Yotam Aloof
Design de Som Sound Design Dolev Refaeli
Com With Talia Kavenstock Michael Sharon Ben Braiman Inbal Mendlovic
Distribuidor Distributor Deborah Fixler
Escola School Sam Spiegel Film and TV School

Estreia Mundial  World Première

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Dust Cloth

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SEG 13 NOV • 21H30 | CINEMATECA • SALA M FÉLIX RIBEIRO
COM A PRESENÇA DA REALIZADORA THE DIRECTOR WILL BE PRESENT

https://vimeo.com/152487839

Toz Bezi
Ahu Öztürk

Turquia, Alemanha Fic 2015 98’

Nesrin e Hatun são duas empregadas domésticas curdas que vivem em Istambul. Enquanto Nesrin tenta sobreviver com a filha pequena, procurando perceber o que levou o marido a abandoná-la, o sonho de Hatun é comprar uma casa no bairro onde fazem limpezas.

Nesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning ladies living in Istanbul. While Nesrin is trying to survive with her little daughter and understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they work.

Argumento Screenplay Ahu Öztürk
Produção Production Çiğdem Mater, Nesra Gürbüz
Fotografia Cinematography Meryem Yavuz
Montagem Editing Ali Aga, Ayhan Ergürsel
Direcção de Arte Art Design Aslı Dadak, Barış Yıkılmaz
Design de Som Sound Design Michael Andreas
Com With Asiye Dinçsoy, Nazan Kesal, Serra Yılmaz, Didem İnselel, Mehmet Özgür

Estreia Nacional Portuguese Première

Prémios Awards
Melhor Filme, Melhor Argumento, Melhor Actriz, Istanbul FF, Turquia
Selecção oficial Berlinale Forum, Alemanha
Festivais Festivals
Berlinale Forum, Alemanha

Motherland

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TER 14 NOV • 21H30 | CINEMATECA • SALA M FÉLIX RIBEIRO

Ana Yurdu
Senem Tüzen

Turquia, Grécia Fic 2015 96’

Nesrin trocou Istambul pela casa da família numa aldeia rural da Turquia para terminar o seu primeiro romance, mas quando a sua mãe religiosa e conservadora chega sem avisar, conflitos antigos ressurgem – revelando os cismas que dividem a Turquia moderna e forçando-as a explorar as partes mais sombrias do mundo interior da outra.

Nesrin has left Istanbul for the family’s village house in rural Türkiye to finish her first novel, but when her religious and conservative mother arrives unannounced, old conflicts resurface–revealing the schisms dividing modern Türkiye and forcing them to explore the darker parts of the other’s inner world.

Argumento Screenplay Senem Tüzen
Produção Production Olena Yershova, Adam Isenberg, Senem Tüzen
Fotografia Cinematography Vedat Özdemir
Montagem Editing Adam Isenberg, Yorgos Mavropsaridis
Música Music Aşık Veysel
Direcção de Arte Art Design Metin Çelik
Design de Som Sound Design Leandros Ntounis, Valia Tserou
Com With Esra Bezen Bilgin, Nihal Koldaş, Semih Aydın, Fatma Kısa
Distribuidor Distributor Senem Tüzen

Estreia Nacional Portuguese Première

Prémios Awards
Melhor Argumento, Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Austrália | Melhor Filme, Tbilisi IFF, Geórgia || Turquia Prémio FIPRESCI, Istanbul FFl | Melhor Filme, Melhor Fotografia, Melhor Montagem, Prémio da Crítica, Melhor Argumento, Melhor Realização, Ankara IFF | Melhor Filme, Melhor Montagem, Melhor Argumento, Melhor Realização, Melhor Actriz [Esra Bezen Bilgin], SIYAD Awards (Turkish Film Critics’ Association) | Melhor Fotografia, Melhor Argumento, Melhor Actriz [Esra Bezen Bilgin], Adana Golden Boll FF
Selecção oficial La Biennale di Venezia, Itália
Festivais Festivals
Venice IFF, Itália | Göteborg FF, Suécia

WEBSITE

 

Mrs. Nebile’s Wormhole

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SEG 13 NOV • 21H30 | CINEMATECA • SALA M FÉLIX RIBEIRO

Nebile Hanım’ın Solucandeligi
Pınar Yorgancioglu

Alemanha, Turquia, Estados Unidos Fic 2016 14’

Se as paredes falassem…! Entediada com a sua doméstica e isolada rotina no Sul da Alemanha, Nebile, uma dona de casa turca de meia-idade, passa os dias a tecer fantasias sobre a vida dos outros. Um dia, decide resolver o problema com as próprias mãos e cava um túnel secreto para a casa do vizinho.

If walls could talk… Bored with her domestic and isolated routine in Southern Germany, Nebile, a middle-aged Turkish housewife, spends her days fantasising about the lives of others. One day she decides to take the matter in her own hands, and digs a secret tunnel into the house next-door.

Argumento Screenplay Pınar Yorgancioglu
Produção Production Aleksandra Todorovic, Nina Schwarz, Sarah Seulki Oh
Fotografia Cinematography Jonas Schneider
Montagem Editing Gurcan Cansever & Pinar Yorgancioglu
Música Music Giordano Franchetti
Direcção de Arte Art Design Alexander Timoshenko
Design de Som Sound Design Joseph Durniak
Com With Jale Arikan & Tim Seyfi
OUTROS Based on a Short Story by Nazli Eray
Distribuidor Distributor Pinar Yorgancioglu
Escola School Columbia University & Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Estreia Nacional Portuguese Première

Prémios Awards
Melhor Filme, _stanbul Independent FF, Turquia | Menção Honrosa, _stanbul FF, Turquia
Festivais Festivals
EUA Florida FF | St Louis FF | Urban World FF || Warsaw FF, Polónia | Antalya FF, Turquia

WEBSITE 

 

My Sister

OLHARES DA TURQUIA
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QUA 15 NOV • 19H00 | CINEMATECA • SALA M FÉLIX RIBEIRO

Ablam
Burcu Aykar
Turquia Fic 2019 23’

Elif tem 10 anos e a irmã, Ayse, tem 13. É um verão abafado na Istambul dos anos 1980. Elif brinca na rua, encontrando ainda baldios verdes entre os estaleiros de obras. Ayse passa o Verão estendida no sofá. Por razões que Elif não entende, a irmã sente-se irritadíssima com ela. Ayse parece inalcançável.

Elif is 10 years old and her sister Ayse is 13. It’s a sultry summer in the 1980’s Istanbul. Elif plays on the street finding the remaining green areas left between construction sites. Ayse spends the summer lying on the couch. Elif drives her sister mad, for reasons she can’t quite grasp. Ayse seems unreachable.

Argumento Screenplay Burcu Aykar
Produção Production Burcu Aykar
Fotografia Cinematography Barış Özbiçer
Montagem Editing Doruk Kaya
Música Music Song Lyrics and Composer: Sezen Aksu,  Vocals Ferdi Özbeğen
Direcção de Arte Art Design Onur Yılmaz
Design de Som Sound Design Cenker Kökten
Com With Devrim Eylem Şeker, Ayça Ayşe Yeniay, Defne Karagöz,
Baseado num Conto de Based on the Story “My Sister” by Elif Türkölmez
Distribuidor Distributor Burcu Aykar

Estreia Nacional Portuguese Première

Prémios Awards
Turquia Melhor Filme, Akbank Short FF | Melhor Curta, Antalya Golden Orange FF | Melhor Montagem, Melhor Actriz, Segundo Melhor Filme, Melhor Realização, _zmir Short FF | Melhor Filme, AFSAD Intl Short FF | Melhor Actriz, Melhor Montagem, U_ak Short FF | Melhor Curta, SIYAD Awards (Turkish Film Critics’ Association)
Festivais Festivals
Tüpisch Turkisch FF, Alemanha | Turkish Film Days Munich, Alemanha | Boston Turkish Films, EUA | Festival Cinema Turquie Paris, França | Firenze FF, Itália | Girona FF, Itália | Adana Golden Boll FF

INSTAGRAM 

Nota da Realizadora Director’s Statement
Türkiye: 15. Akbank Short Film Festival National Competition: Best Film. 56. Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival: Best Short Film. 20. _zmir Short Film Festival: Best Editing, Best Actress, Second Best Film, Best Director. 3. AFSAD International Short Film Festival: Best Film. 7. U_ak Short Film Festival: Best Actress, Best Editing. 52. Siyad (Turkish Film Critics Association) Awards: Best Short Film

Pandora’s Box

OLHARES DA TURQUIA
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QUA 15 NOV • 21H30 | CINEMATECA • SALA M FÉLIX RIBEIRO

Pandora’nın Kutusu
Yeşim Ustaoğlu

Turquia, França, Alemanha, Bélgica Fic 2008 112’

Três irmãos já adultos, duas mulheres e um homem, vivem no centro da moderna Istambul. Os três têm vidas muito diferentes, muito centrados nas suas preocupações de classe média-alta. Um dia, um telefonema leva-os a encetar uma viagem, atravessando subúrbios e aldeias até chegar à sua terra, uma pequena vila nas montanhas do Mar Negro. Nusret, a sua mãe já idosa, desapareceu…

Two sisters and a brother live in the centre of today’s Istanbul. They are in their thirties and forties, and lead very different lives, self centred on their upper-middle class preoccupations. One day, a phone call brings them together on a voyage through Türkiye’s suburbs and villages to the small town in the Black Sea mountains where they were born. Their aged mother, Nusret, has disappeared…

Argumento Screenplay Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Produção Production Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Behrooz Hashemian, Natacha Deviiliers, Michael Weber
Fotografia Cinematography Jacques Esse
Montagem Editing Franck Nakache
Música Music Jean-Pierre Mas
Direcção de Arte Art Design Elif Taşdiken
Design de Som Sound Design Bruno Tarriere
Com With Tsilla Chelton, Derya Alabora, Onur Unsal, Övül Avkiran, Osman Sonant
Distribuidor Distributor Ustaoğlu Film

Estreia Nacional Portuguese Première

Prémios Awards
Melhor Filme, Melhor Actriz (Tsilla Chelton), San Sebastian IFF, Espanha | Crossroads, Melhor Projecto Europeu, Thessaloniki IFF, Grécia | Melhor Actriz Secundária (Derya Alabora), Istanbul IFF, Turquia
E mais de 10 prémios em Filipinas, França, Irão, Turquia
Festivais Festivals
Antalya Film Fest, 2008 Best Supporting Actress (Övül Avkıran) Amiens Film Fest, 2008 Best Actress (Tsilla Chelton) Valecieses Film Fest, 2009 Best Actress (Tsilla Chelton) Cinemanila Film Fest, 2009 Best Actress (Tsilla Chelton) Fajr Film Fest, 2009 Jury Award, Best Actress (Tsilla Chelton, Derya Alabora, Övül Avkıran) Istanbul Film Fest, 2009 Best Actress (Derya Alabora)

 

The Play

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QUA 15 NOV • 19H00 | CINEMATECA • SALA M FÉLIX RIBEIRO

Oyun
Pelin Esmer
Turquia Doc 2005 70’

Ummuye, Behiye, Ummu, Fatma K, Cennet, Saniye, Fatma F, Zeynep e Nesime são nove mulheres que vivem em Arslankoy, uma aldeia montanhosa no Sul da Turquia. Os seus dias são passados a trabalhar no campo, no estaleiro de obras e em casa. Para aliviar a dureza das suas vidas, estas mulheres reúnem-se por uma razão totalmente diferente: pretendem escrever e encenar uma peça baseada nas histórias das suas vidas.

Ummuye, Behiye, Ummu, Fatma K, Cennet, Saniye, Fatma F, Zeynep and Nesime are nine women living in Arslankoy, a mountain village in southern Türkiye. They spend their days working hard in the fields, on the construction site and at home. To lighten the burden of life, these women come together for a completely different reason. They intend to write and perform a play based on their own life stories.

Argumento Screenplay Pelin Esmer
Produção Production Pelin Esmer, Nida Karabol, Tolga Esmer
Fotografia Cinematography Pelin Esmer
Montagem Editing Pelin Esmer
Música Music Mazlum Çimen
Design de Som Sound Design Emrah Yıldırım, Bülent Kılıç
Com With Behiye Yanık, Cennet Güne_, Fatma Fatih, Fatma Kahraman, Hüseyin Arslanköylü, Na_ide Kahraman, Nesime Kahraman, Saniye Cengiz, Ümmüye Koçak, Ümmü Kurt, Zeynep Fatih
Distribuidor Distributor Sinefilm Pelin Esmer

Estreia Nacional Portuguese Première

Prémios Awards
Melhor Revelação, São Paulo IFF, Brasil | Melhor Revelação, Tribeca FF, EUA | Prémio Especial, SIYAD Awards (Turkish Film Critics’ Association), Turquia
E mais de 10 prémios em Alemanha, Espanha, EUA, França, Itália, Turquia
Estreia mundial San Sebastián IFF, Espanha | Selecção oficial IDFA Amsterdam, Países Baixos
Festivais Festivals
Dok Leipzig, Alemanha | IFF Innsbruck, Áustria | Arab Women’s FF, Brasil | Festival Ciné-Palestine, Paris, França | Festival Ciné-Palestine, Marselha, França | Chicago Palestine FF, EUA | IDFA, Amesterdão, Países Baixos | Festival Intl de Cinema de Santarém, Portugal | CPH:DOX Artists & Auteurs, Copenhaga, Suécia | Vision du Reel, IFF Nyon [Estreia mundial], Suíça | Gabes FF, Tunísia

WEBSITE FACEBOOK • INSTAGRAM PRESSKIT

NOTA DA REALIZADORA DIrector’s Note
Those nine women doing theater in their own village would, in any case, write and put on stage a play based on their life stories, whether or not I made this movie. That was the most exciting aspect of this work for me. I wanted to shoot a fiction-like documentary and not a documentary- like fiction film, without trying to be invisible but quietly integrating myself in their lives at that very village, at that very moment and with the very people living through this happening. It has been a very important experience for me to observe the film move on the thin line between a documentary and a fiction film as time passed, whilst the line between their real lives and their play blurred. Our filming crew of three eventually turned out to be a part of their theater team. Working under similar circumstances they created, at the end of five weeks, “the play of their lives”, and I created, at the end of two years, the film “The Play”.