Carte Blanche to the Cinémathèque de Tanger

European Alternatives and Iniva, (Institute of International Visual Arts) are organising the screening of short films selected by the Cinémathèque de Tanger. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Danielle Arbid: film director and member of the Conseil Consultatif of the Cinémathèque de Tanger, Khalid Abdalla: actor, co-founder The Mosireen Collective, Egypt
and Yto Barrada: artistic director and co-founder of the Cinémathèque de Tanger, chaired by Omar Kholeif, Director of the Arab Film Festival, Liverpool and Curator of FACT, the UK’s centre for film and new media.

The Cinémathèque de Tanger was born thanks to the eagerness of a group of artists who wanted to show less known and less projected cinema in Morocco which derived from distant geographical and aesthetic backgrounds.

The film programme is a selection of short films made before the revolutions that have shaken the Arab world in 2011 and which question the recent history of countries like Lebanon, Tunisia and Morocco through storytelling.
The videos - directed by filmmakers of the new generation - present stories related to underground and political commitment, to terrorism, revolutions and civil wars, told by those who lived these realities. These stories remind us our present time and enables us to reflect on the transmission of political and historical events.
The 2011 revolutions have demonstrated the strength of social networks, were the individuals have became narrators and can relate the events through pictures, texts and personal publications, putting literally into question the traditional information mean: the media. The narrator has taken its place in the construction of history, between fiction and reality.
Films focus on activists’ individual dimension in these rebellions, leading to a sort of revolutions’ autobiography.

Venue: Human Rights Action Centre Auditorium, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA

6pm

Film Programme:

- UNTITLED by Neil Beloufa
Algeria/France, 2010, 15 min
- MY FATHER IS STILL A COMMUNIST by Ahmed Gossein
Lebanon/UAE, 2011, 32 min
- WANTED by Ali Essafi
Morocco/UAE, 2011, 20 min
- THE STORY OF MILK AND HONEY by Basma al Sharif
Palestine, 2011, 10 min
- LIVING ROOM by Danielle Arbid
Lebanon, 2004, 28 min

8pm

Talk with:

• Danielle Arbid: film director and member of the Conseil Consultatif of the Cinémathèque de Tanger.

• Khalid Abdalla: actor, co-founder The Mosireen Collective, Egypt

• Yto Barrada: artistic director and co-founder of the Cinémathèque de Tanger

chaired by Omar Kholeif, Director of the Arab Film Festival, Liverpool and Curator
of FACT, the UK’s centre for film and new media.