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1. New for European Sales: MAKE A WISH (Itmana) 2. RECYCLE wins in Sundance 3. Contact mec film at Berlinale 4. mec film at Talent Campus 5. screenings ------------------------------- 1. New for European Sales: MAKE A WISH (Itmanna) We are happy to announce that mec film is the new representative of Cherien Dabis' award winning short film Make a Wish (Itmanna). Content A young Palestinian girl will do whatever it takes to buy a birthday cake. Eleven year-old MARIAM begs her mother for the extra money she needs to buy a cake at the local bakery. Her mother begrudgingly relents, but when Mariam arrives at the bakery, she realizes that she still doesn't have enough. Determined to get the cake, she sets out to brave the obstacles and land some cash. What begins as a simple trip to the bakery turns into a journey that depicts not only the subtle tensions of a politically charged environment, but also illustrates the grief that can result from growing up under occupation. Cherien Dabis, Palestine 2006, 12 min, 35mm, Arabic with English subtitles ------------------------------- 2. RECYCLE wins in Sundance Mahmoud Massad won the award for Best Cinematography in the category World Cinema Documentary at Sundance for mec film co-production RECYCLE Content What makes a terrorist? In Zarqa, Jordan’s second largest city with close to 1,000,000 people, it is a much-debated question. Zarqa’s political Islamists are a powerful force in this industrial center, and Zarqa was the birthplace of Abu Musa al Zarqawi, the brutal leader of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia before being killed by American forces in 2005. Many in town knew al Zarqawi, many in his family remain, and Zarqa continues to be a source of new recruits to the jihadist cause. Inspired by his reporting on al Zarqawi and Al Quaeda for international news agencies, filmmaker al Massad returned to Zarqa, where he grew up, to make /Recycle./ With ravishing cinematography that belies the unforgiving landscape, Jordanian/Palestinian filmmaker Mahmoud al Massad charts the daily life of a religious Islamic man trying to survive in one of Zarqa’s poorest neighborhoods. With a deceptively calm demeanor, the film slowly unravels the hidden agents of terrorism as poverty, humiliation, lack of opportunity and religious doctrine define the daily rhythms of a man and his family, against the backdrop of an age of jihad that spans the globe. Unlike the daily bombardment of frighteningly dramatic headlines about Islam and the war on terror, Recycle suggests that evil acts can emerge from the most ordinary of circumstances. Jordan/The Netherlands/Germany/France/Switzerland 2007, 35mm, Arabic with subtitles (French and English) World Sales: Wide Management Paris --------------------------------- 3. Contact mec film at Berlinale Irit Neidhardt is representing mec film at Berlinale between February 7th and 17th , you can reach her at 49-163-5684073. -------------------------------- 4. mec film at Talent Campus Also this year the work of mec film will be presented at Berlinale Talent Campus at the panel SOUTHERN PASSAGES: Euromed Networking Overview where co-production and distribution possibilities in the Euro-med region will be presented and discussed. -------------------------------- 6. screenings ATASH (Tawfik Abu Wael) 31.1.-8.2.08 Eiszeit, Berlin LIKE TWENTY IMPOSSIBLES (Annemarie Jacir) 28.2.2008 Women's Cinema from Tangier to Teheran, London NEWS FROM HOME (Amos Gitai) 11.2.08 Jewish Museum, Berlin RANA'S WEDDING (Hany Abu Assad) 18.2.08 Jewish Museum Berlin SHNAT EFFES – Die Geschichte vom bösen Wolf (Joseph Pitchhadze) 7.-20.2.08 Filmhaus Stuttgart TEHILIM (Raphael Nadjari) 15.-19.2.08 Kino im Kuenstlerhaus, Hannover |
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