FINALISTS WORKS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION:
category “MEDITERRANEAN CHALLENGES”

Ces filles-là

Dialogues in the dark

Pickles

To die in Jerusalem

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Ces filles-là
Film Director:
Tahani Rached-2006
Production:
Studio Masr-Egypt

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The film takes us into the universe of young girls living in the streets of Cairo, a world of violence and oppression, but, also freedom. Young girls already grown-up, and child-mothers: Tata, Miriam, Abir and Dounia inevitably live by the day, among threats, disputes, dancing, laughter, and solidarity. The film also tells of their encounter with Hind, an active and veiled Muslim, whose values are based on the universal principles of human respect. We discover a world that is invisible to the “indifferent eye”, an exsistence that testifies secret and vital mechanisms of a society.

Tahani Rached was born in Cairo in 1947. She studied at the Beaux Arts of Montreal for two years, before working for the Institutional Community Organisms, and then, approached the cinema world.
Her film career began in 1973 with “Pour faire changement”, a documentary film produced by Videographe Production. In 1976, in collaboration with SUCO, a Canadian organization that deals with international co-operation. She creates a unit of video production for the Tunisian Federation cinema amateurs. Then, from 1981 to 2004, shoots about 20 films and videos as a permanent film maker at the Office National du Film in Canada, and her last film “Ces filles-la”was acheived in Egypt and produced by Studio Masr.

 

Dialogues in the dark
Film Director:
Melek Ulagay Taylan-2006
Production:
Melek Ulagay Taylan-Turkey

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Two women, the camera operator Ulla, and Melek, producer and film director travel through South-East Turkey. We come to know about stories of women threatened to be killed by the men of their families for having had a “sexual” relationship with a man. The stories told about these persecuted women, make them reflect on honour and shame, on the victim and on the executor Learning about their customs, which is at the same time , patriarchal and tribal, makes both women and men victims.

Melek Ulagay Taylan, after having received a degree in English and in Creative Literature at the University of Istanbul, takes a Master in International Relations at the university of Ankara
Between 1976 an 1982 she teaches at the Department of Human Science at the Technical University of the Middle East. From 1982 is a free-lance journalist in Istanbul, writing for various weekly and monthly magazines, then is a producer and scriptwriter for “ Yorum$Publicis”, one of the most important advertising agencies in Turkey. Founder and member of Helsinki Citizens Assembly,an organization supporting the defence and rights of man in Turkey. In 1992 she creates “Ajans21”, an independent production house where she is producer and scriptwriter.

 

Pickles
Film director:
Dalit Kimor-2006
Production:
Gon Productions Ltd-Israel

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Eight Arab widows, aged 35 to 50 have opened a factory of pickles.These Muslim women from the Arab village of Tamra, have never had a job in their life time.Being widows, they are condemned to living alone,,staying at home and growing up their children,with a minimum subsidy given by the government. If they decide to remarry, they must give up their rights on their children.
To try to emerge from this dramatic situation, they unite their forces and create a small company.The eight women, having never met before become a small and strong group, and consider the factory their second home.With the passing of months, they always become more dependent to the financial aspect of their business..

Dalit Kimor received a degree in psychology, philosophy and science, at the university of Jerusalem. Until 1993 she worked as co-ordinator for the editions of various documentary programs broadcasted on channel 1. Between 1993 and 2003 she shoots a number of reportage for the magazine “Mabat Sheni “ (Channel !) and “Uvda” (Channel2).
Film Director and scriptwriter of many documentaries, her film “Border Land” won the First Prize of Reportage Investigation at he Festival Doc-Aviv.

To die in Jerusalem
Film Director:
Hilla Medalia-2007
Production:
EJH Productions-Israel/U.S.A

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Abigail, the mother of Rachel Levy, a seventeen year old Israeli girl killed four years before, during a suicidal attempt, caused by a young Palestinian in Jerusalem, is not able to forget the tragedy: she needs to understand why, and wants to know for what reason a high school student of 17 yrs., Ayat al-Akhras, coming from a Palestine refugee camp, could place a bomb and kill innocent people. The woman tries her best to meet the mother of the kamikaze, but, the road on the way is disseminated with calamities.
“To die in Jerusalem” explores the Palestinian and Israelian conflict through the grief and mourning of the two families, it shows the tragic moment of encounter between the two mothers; although sharing the same sorrow, they are not able to overcome their disagreements and go beyond the conflicts.

Hilla Medalia lives in New York. Has done a Master in Media and Mass Communications. Her documentary “39 pounds of love” won the Prize Ophir (equivalent to the Oscar in Israel) and the Prize of the Best Documentary at the festival of Palm Beach and Mill Valley in 2005 For her short film, “Daughters of Abraham”, she received the Angelus Award shot in 2004.

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Film Director: Bruno Ulmer-2006
Production: Son et Lumiere-France

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Young clandestines search for shelter and work in Europe, but theft, prostitution, and living as tramps awaits them: they are Romanians, Kurds, or Morrocians, roaming to a Europe that has nothing to do with the paradise they dreamt of.
They are young men without a working and staying permit, whose existence is always closer to a survival…they rob, beg, and push drugs. consequently being forced to harder choices, for example “selling” themselves for a few euros.
In Berlin, Marseille, Paris, Amsterdam, Turin and Calais, Bruno Ulmer has accompanied some of these men in their wanderings, who drift from place to place, thus loosing every aspect of their identities and values.

Bruno Ulmer was born in Fez, in Morocco, in 1959.He studied medicine and management. Councillor to an agency of communications in Paris, and then, becomes manager and acts as a sponsor, for the humanitarian and cultural group “Danone”. From 1998 onwards, he shoots a number of films or documentaries :” La Vie en 8”(1998), “Livres de vie, memoires des humbles” (2000). “Voyages en Mediterranee” (2000), “Fils de son pere” (2000), “Francais d’ici, peoples d’ailleurs” (2000), “Casa Marseille”, inch’Allah” (2002) e “petite bonnes” (2003).At present he is preparing a film entitled “Frates”, a project for which he received a financing in Montpellier in 2005.

other categories

SELECTION FOR THE FINAL STAGE OF
THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2007:

• Grand Prize CMCA Mediterranean Challenges
• Memories of the Mediterranean
• Art, Heritage, and Cultures of the Mediterranean
• First Creation
• The Golden Lighthouse for Tv Magazine

 

SELECTION FOR THE FINAL STAGE OF
THE NATIONAL COMPETITION 2007

• Special Prize
  Mediterranean Wakes. Region of Sardegna