| November 2010
1. New Address: mec film moved
2. LOOKING FOR ZAK premiered at International Film Festival Ramallah
3. Art Lounge Lebanon
4. mec film at Arab Shorts Cairo
5. Publication: Reinventing Palestine: Cinema for Peace in Jenin now online
6. DVD of the month: MASHA
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1. New Address: mec film moved
mec film
Emdener Strasse 48d
10551 Berlin
Germany
Phone, fax and mail are still the same
phone: 49-30-66766700
fax: 49-30-66766699
Email:
info@mecfilm.de
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2. LOOKING FOR ZAK premiered at International Fim Festival Ramallah
Ihab Jadallah’s (The Shooter) new short film LOOKING FOR ZAK premiered at Ramallah International Film festival last month. In the film Jadallah examines the feeling of impotence that the young generation in occupied Jerusalem is struggling with.
Content
A car parked in Jerusalem. Three friends are looking for their buddy Zak. In a Palestinian jail, in an Israeli jail - or did he go on a suicide mission? We take off for a static journey between reality and paranoia.
Palestine 2010, 9 min, fiction, Arabic with English subtitles
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3. ART Lounge Lebanon
Film curator Irit Neidhart (mec film) is presenting three Lebanese short films by Sabine El Chamaa, Lina Gheibeh and Carlos Chahine at ART Lounge Lebanon in Hamburg. In addition photographer Dalia Khamissy will introduce her work in an artist’s talk. @ Koerber Forum Hamburg, November 30th 2010. More information (German only)
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4. mec film at Arab Shorts Cairo
Arab Shorts festival of six curated programs is talking place December 4th-6th. Irit Neidhardt is presenting mec film at one of the festival’s lunch talks. More information and program-pdf
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5. Publication: “Reinventing Palestine: Cinema for Peace in Jenin” - now online
By the initiative of German documentary film-maker Marcus Vetter and with great support by German Ministry of Foreign Affairs „Cinema Jenin“ re-opened after 20 years in August 2010. It shall be a ‘Cinema For Peace’ and give hope to the people of Jenin (West Bank). In her article Irit Neidhardt examines the various definitions of the notion ‚peace‘ in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and explores the cinema’s potential for peace critically. Online here
(German only)
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6. DVD of the month: MASHA
Content
A woman in her mid-twenties and a fourteen year old boy are sitting one in front of the other in the woman's bedroom. The woman is a director. She is the director. She probably auditions dozens of boys just like him every day. He cannot allow himself to question her; he must never refuse her order.
Making Masha, I wanted to investigate a situation in which pathological dominance relations are developed out of objective conditions, but with one important difference: I wanted both sides to be victims. In a different manner, indeed, but both vulnerable somehow, both hurt. I wanted to see, as well as show, how cruelty can immerge out of true pain, loneliness, despair. I also wanted to deal with an evasive type of ambivalence: the blend of pleasure and fear.
The viewer witnesses the scene through Masha's private camera. He cannot see Masha herself, but hears her voice, her manipulative orders. Considering that the chosen frame stands for Masha's gaze, the image of the boy and his emotional reactions to her demands actually reflect and illustrate her pervert mind. That’s why I see the whole piece as a portrait of Masha. (Dana Goldberg)
Dana Goldberg, Israel 2005, fiction, shortfilm, 10 min, black & white, Hebrew
Subtitles: English
PAL, region free
Festivals (selection)
VideoLisboa #5
dokumentART
Morbegno Film Festival, Italy
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Impakt Festival, The Netherlands
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