Shorts Program 1
Orientation: A New Arab Cinema
August 24 - 29, 2012
In these diverse films, spanning the poetic to the realistic, the protagonists engage in a daily struggle for a better life: Sabeel (Khalid Al Mahmood), Land of Heroes (Sahim Omar Kalifa), The Salt Fisherman (Ziad Bakri), The Road to Paradise (Uda Benyamina).
Sabeel
Khalid Al Mahmood | 2010 | UAE | HDCAM | 20m
Two brothers sell homegrown produce on the roadside to support their sick grandmother.
Land of Heroes/Ard Al Abtal
Sahim Omar Kalifa | 2011 | Iraq | HDCAM | 9m
In the midst of the Iran/Iraq war, two young siblings find their worst enemy to be their mother’s friend’s son.
The Salt Fisherman/Sayyad Elmilh
Ziad Bakri | 2011 | Palestine | Digibeta | 19m
A fisherman refuses to give up hope that someday he will catch a fish in the sea.
The Road to Paradise/Sur la route du paradis
Uda Benyamina | 2011 | France | Beta SP | 43m
While Leila’s husband is a refugee in England, she and her two daughters settle in France trying to build a better life in a community of other illegal immigrants.
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