March 2010

1. THE ONE MAN VILLAGE – screenings
2. ALLIGATOR at Roze Filmdagen and Women’s Film Festival Dortmund | Cologne
3. THE NORTH ROAD in New York and Monaco
4. DVD Shop – mec film
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1. THE ONE MAN VILLAGE – screenings
We are happy to announce that THE ONE MAN VILLAGE by Simon El Habre continues travelling the world. Next stops are Cinema Novo Festival in Brugge, Bermuda Docs at the Bermuda Islands, Lebanese film program at Qattan Foundation in London as well as the Lebanese film program in New York in May. The French pre-premiere took place in Paris last months with two sold out screenings in the presence of Simon El Habre and co-producer Jad Abi Khalil. German theatres continue booking the film, for all screenings click here.
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2. ALLIGATOR at Roze Filmdagen and Women’s Film Festival Dortmund | Cologne
Dana Goldberg’s new short ALLIGATOR is currently showing at Roze Filmdagen, Amsterdam’s Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and will be showing at International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund | Cologne in Cologne in April.

Content
22 year old Ilana lives with her mother in an old apartment in the center of Tel Aviv. Every conversation between the two turns into a quarrel that makes Ilana run off. Wandering the ruthless, dark streets, Ilana seeks human closeness and intimacy.
Israel 2009, Dana Goldberg, ca. 20 min, HDCAM, Hebrew with Engl. Subtitles
More about the film.
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3. THE NORTH ROAD in New York and Monaco
Carlos Chahine’s Tribeca-winner THE NORTH ROAD was officially selected for Monaco Charity Film Festivals in May and will be shown at the same month in the Lebanese film program in New York, curated by Rasha Salti.

Content
Karim, mid fourties, lives in France since his early teenage years. For the first time in many years he returns to Lebanon to transfer his father remains, who died during the war, from Beirut to his home village.
Carlos Chahine, Lebanon/France, 2008, 25 min, 35mm, Arabic/French with English subtitles
More about the film.
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4. DVD Shop – mec film
mec film-shop.com opened. In addition to a selection of films from the mec film catalogue you find Eyal Sivan’s Izkor – Slaves of Memory, A Specialist, and Itgaber. Also the DVD Box of Michel Khliefi’s and Eyal Sivan’s co-directed Route 181 – Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel is available again.
For shopping click here.
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