FINALISTS WORKS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION:
category “first creation ”

Je prends ton mal

Palestine Blues

Ritorni

The champagne spy

VHS-Kahloucha

Je prends ton mal
Film Director: Antoine Chaudagne-2005-52 minutes
Production: Antoine and Stephanie Chaudagne-France

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Three Armenian features in 2004.

The war against Azerbaijan, ex “brother”country, in the Sovietic Caucasian, ended 10 years ago, but the wounds related to the conflict and the closure of the frontiers are still a daily obsession for the Armenians.
When the Armenians gather together speaking and discussing about the “Azerbaijan question” ,one drinks vodka, dances, sings, cries, and listens to music that revokes past and daily delusions.

Antoine Chaudagne was born on the 29th of June in 1975 in Paris. In 1997, receives a degree at the EDHEC ( French School of Commerce and Management) and at the Akademia Ekonomiczna of Cracovia (Poland).He is consultant in the Planning for Development and Cooperation (Ukrania, Georgia),and specially for the European Union.
Between 1999 and 2002 he carried out recordings on traditional music in Armenia and Ethiopia , thus producing two records on Armenian music, and in 2002 organized concerts, aimed to the “Festival de l’Imaginaire”,that is held yearly at the Maison des Cultures du Monde in Paris.
From 2002 he leads the Urbanistic Research in Eastern Europe,and issues an article on the Serbian city of Novi Pazar for the magazine “Regard sur I’Est” he then gives life to two documentary film projects: one with the festival “Image de Ville” in Aix-en-Provence on the reconstruction of the city of Mostar in Bosnia-Erzegovina, and the other on the mining city in the industrial region of Donbass, in Ukrania

 

Palestine Blues
Film Director: Nida Sinnokrot-2006-73 minutes
Production: Nida Sinnokrot, Dulab Films in collaboration with
Radioaktive Films-Palestine/U.S.A

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That,what is left to the Palestine farmers, that from one day to the next, their land is expropriated by the Israelian army for the construction of a division “safety wall,is cries, tears, and a tormented nostalgia. How can one leave these olive and orange trees planted and nurtured with love? How can one renounce to this, which has always been a reason to live for?
Nida Sinnokrot, carrying her camera, which was often hidden, causes us to witness moments of great confusion and desperation, daily victories, and tragic loses lived by village farmers. Palestine Blues came to life during the research for an artistic project on the theme of water. The film is engaging, it’s a direct encounter with reality, making one meditate on how men and women resist to the hostilities, and on how landscapes changes, once violence takes over.

Nida Sinnokrot, after having received a degree in Radio, Television and Film at the university of Texas moves to New York to study cinema at the Bard College,. She has just recently finished courses at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. Her installations, that examine the sense of time and space according to the conscience of the diaspora,have been appreciated and rewarded in the U.S.A and around the world.

 

Ritorni
Film: Giovanna Taviani-2006-52 minutes
Production: Nuvola Film in collaboration with G.B
Palombo Editore and Yenta Production-Italy

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During the summer holidays, the North Africans who live in Europe return to their home countries to spend their vacations, making a “U-Turn” to their origins, called emigration.The aspect that interests the film director is the manner in how they build their identity, made of going back and forth between two coasts and two cultures, She gets her answers come from three intellectuals: Karim Hannach, Tunisian teacher, the Algerian writer Assia Djebar, and the Morrocian writer Tahar ben Jelloun.

Giovanna Taviani is an essayist and has a fellowship at the University of Contemporary Literature; and has written a number of text on Luigi Pirandello and Pasolini. From 1997 she is editor for the magazine “Allegorie” and writes for “Cinecritica” and “Eidos”, she has also directed many educational videos, and now is editor of the video series “Dal resto allo schermo, Al confine tra letteratura e cinema” (At the borderline between literature and cinema). Her debut as a documentary maker was in 2004 with “I nostri 30 anni: Generazioni a confronto”.

 

The champagne spy
Film Director: Nadav Schirman-2007-90 minutes
Production: July August Production, Lichblick-Film
Gmbh-Israele/Germany

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Oded is only 12 years old when his father tells him about being an agent of the Mossad (intelligence and secret service agency of the Israelian State), and makes him promise to keep this secret on which his life depends. While he is on a mission in Cairo,passing for the ex-nazi, millionaire, and horse breeder, Wolfgang Lotz, Oded and his mother who are alone in Paris, anxiously await his return. Oded decides to reveal his father’s secret, in this way lifting the heavy burden of an exsistence of ordeal that his family has endured caused by the world of espionage.

Nadav Schirman, son of a diplomat, he grew up in Paris, Monteal, Bruxelles, Tel Aviv an the U.S.A. and is author of , and also shot, his first documentary film, “Champagne Sky”
He quotes, “ I have always been fascinated by the espionage world, so during the preparation of the documentary, and after having met many spies, I have come to understand that their world is not one of “glamour” but often very lonely and sinister.
Nadav Schirman is presently preparing his first feature film “The second life of Abraham Potz”, taken from the homonymous story

 

VHS-Kahloucha
Film Director: Nejib Belkadhi-2006-80 minutes
Production: Propaganda Production (Imed Marzouk)-Tunisia

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Great film fan of the 70’s, Moncef Kahloucha, a professional painter, begins shooting very amusing films in VHS, with the help of people in the working class neighbourhood of Kazmet, in the city of Sousse, in Tunisia.He produces and shoots his films, and always takes the role of the main character.The shooting of the films are an occasion for the neighbourhood to temporarily escape from their daily lives, and live intensive moments,that take them from the preparation to the screening of the film down at the the corner bar. The camera follows Kahloucha during the filming of his last film, “Tarzan degli Arabi”

Nejib Belkadhi, actor and film director, was born in Tunisia in 1972. He approaches the cinema and theatre initially as an actor, and after having finished his studies in Management and Marketing in Cartagine,he focuses on television production.
In 1998 he works as director for Canal+Horizons. In 2002 he establishes Propaganda Production with his friend Imed Marzouk. He directs and produces the “unreal” reality show “Dima Labess” for the Tunisian television.
VHS Kahloucha is his first documentary film.

 

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