Genre : Creative documentary
Country(ies) of production: Algeria/Germany/Qatar
Language: Arabic / French / Hindi
Subtitles: English
Running time of the submitted copy: 80
Estimated running time of the film: 90
Present status of the film: Post-production
What is still needed to complete the film:
Postproduction, Final Cut, Color-Grading/Mastering/ Sound Design/Editing, Licensing Copy Rights.
Funds or awards received: AFAC, Doha Film Institute, Institut Français
Total film budget: 113.524 €
Assets needed to complete the budget: 46.613 €
Producers: Ziani Boualem
Production company: Libre image production
Contact : Zianiboualem@hotmail.com
Co-production : Th omas Kaske / Kaske Film (Germany)
Synopsis
How a 70’s Bollywood film became a major segment of the Algerian collective memory. Exploring this unique phenomenon, “Janitou” weaves a funny and touching story and reveals through a prism the colorful identity sinking of an entire population.
Statement of intent
I believe Janitou is a unique way to raise important questions about Algeria, by exploring the emotional identity of the people, I want to free up voices about love and illustrate the impact of cinema, when present or absent, on society.
Amine Hattou
Amine Hattou is an Algerian independent filmmaker. He graduated from the Journalism Institute of Algiers in 2000. In 2009 he was selected to take part in the documentary summer university of "La Fémis" in Paris (France) where he wrote and directed his first short documentary. In 2011, he directed “Down to earth” which was selected to more than 20 film festivals all over the world.
Boualem Ziani
Boualem Ziani joined the Algerian Television in the 90’s as a journalist. He then pursued his career in audiovisual production and created Sora, a production company which had produced films and TV programs for various TV channels. In 2011, he founded Libre Image, and he is now working with a group of 20 journalists to create a TV channel.
Genre : Feature documentary-hybrid
Country(ies) of production: Lebanon/Germany/Spain
Language: Arabic / French
Subtitles: English
Running time of the submitted copy: 50
Estimated running time of the film: 90
Present status of the film: Post-production, Rough edit
What is still needed to complete the film:
Fine cut image edit, Sound edit and sound mixing - Color grading and compositing - Finalizing the animations - Titles
Funds or awards received: 176000 €
Total film budget: 229000 €
Assets needed to complete the budget: 53000 €
Producers: Eliane Raheb
Production company: ITAR productions
Contact : Kabinett film
Co-production : Kabinett film
Synopsis
When he was 18, Miguel participated in the Lebanese civil war to prove to the society that he “exists” and could fight like a “real man”.
He fails, becomes a self-destructive person and immigrates to Spain.
It’s only now – more than 30 years after leaving Lebanon – that Miguel is willing to confront his trauma and the ghosts from his past.
Statement of intent
When I first met Miguel, he told me his amazing story in a kind of monologue, as if he had the urge to liberate himself
It inspired me to make a hybrid feature documentary set between Lebanon and Spain that deals with the themes of family, religion and fascism and their impact of human beings’ political and sexual identity.
Eliane Raheb
Eliane Raheb is a Lebanese filmmaker, the author of several shorts fictions and documentaries.
Her first feature documentary “Sleepless Nights” toured in 50 festivals and was ranked in the Sight and Sound magazine as one of the best 5 documentaries of 2013. She is also the founder of ITAR productions.
Genre : Fiction
Country(ies) of production: Lebanon
Language: Arabic / French / English
Subtitles: Arabic – French
Running time of the submitted copy: 75
Estimated running time of the film: 80
Present status of the film: Post-production
What is still needed to complete the film:
Finalizing Editing - Sound Mixing and Design - Color - correction - Translation and Subtitling
Funds or awards received: Goethe Lebanon
“Beirut Film Station”production grant /Ministry of Culture of Lebanon Grant for cinematic production
Total film budget: 331,710$
Assets needed to complete the budget: 53000
Producers: Ibrahim Sahara & Youssef Hajj Ali
Production company: No Wise River Films
Contact : ibrahim.sharara@gmail.com
Synopsis
Hannah, a French woman, travels alone to Beirut where she booked a room online, in an apartment. She meets with her flat mate, Homs, a mysterious and temperamental man who seems quite isolated. Their electric friendship becomes an experience as they become each other’s improbable companions in the city of exiles.
Statement of intent
“To Cherish the Sea” is built around a tension: wanting to stage an intimate reality without “extraordinary events” that feels like an immersive eye-account.
It encloses themes intrinsically linked to both the co-directors’ lives and experiences: representations, cultural displacement, living between the western and the Arabic worlds.
FOURATE CHAHAL EL REKABY ET SONIA AIT BOUZID
Fourate is Lebanese, Sonia is Algerian; they both grew up in Paris but met in London while studying Independent filmmaking.
They produced their first movie together back in 2009. After 7 years of collaboration, “To Cherish the Sea” is their first feature film.
Ibrahim Sharara
Ibrahim Sharara has been a journalist in Lebanon since 2004. He wrote and edited articles in many departments before becoming the head of “Shabab Assafir”, a platform specialized in the culture of the youth from all Arab countries.
Lately, Ibrahim started working as a producer and co-founded a production company in Beirut.
Genre : Fiction
Country(ies) of production: Morocco
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English and French
Running time of the submitted copy: 74
Estimated running time of the film: 75
Present status of the film: Editing
What is still needed to complete the film:
Fininshing the editing and the rest of the post-production
Funds or awards received: 172000 €
Total film budget: 217000 €
Assets needed to complete the budget: 45000 €
Producers: Asma Graimiche
Production company: First Ploy Production
Contact : fpp-prod@hotmail.com
Synopsis
Laaziza, seven months pregnant is repudiated by her husband, she will give birth to her son in her elder brother’s house, where she will be living with her son Ihsan. A few years later, Ihsan is about to start his first year of schooling when the father manifested his desire to take him back to his house.
Statement of intent
According to the Larousse, sacrifice is an effort deliberately produced, a penalty voluntarily accepted for a religious purpose of atonement.” Laaziza” tells the story of a voluntarily accepted sacrifice but in an expiation drawing ; not of a sin committed but of an undergoing fate, a fate that one does not want to see repeated.
Mohcine Besri
Mohcine Besri is a Moroccan director and screenwriter. He has directed two short fiction films: "HEAVEN", which won the "Reflet d'Or" prize at the Cinéma Tous Ecrans festival in 2008 and "Kafka, dead or alive!". He was also screenwriter for the series "Heidi" in 2008 and co-wrote the screenplay for Laurent Nègre's film "Operation Casablanca" in 2011. In 2012, he directed his first feature film "Les Mécréants" which was produced by AKKA FILMS & TAMAWAYT PRODUCTIONS.
Asma Graimiche
Asma Graimiche is a producer and distributer from Morocco, she founded her own company first poly production in 2006 then she opened branches in London and Washington for production service . During many years she worked as executive producer for many TVs and Foreign production companies , she produced TVs programs, film cinema and video clips . She is cofounder and director of the international film festival of Dakhla which held annually in Morocco.
Genre : documentary
Country(ies) of production: Lebanon, Denmark, Qatar, Palestine
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Running time of the submitted copy: 50
Estimated running time of the film: 90
Present status of the film: Post-production
What is still needed to complete the film:
Editing / Sound Design / Grading
Funds or awards received: AFAC Production
& Post-Production Grants, Doha Film Institute Production Grant, Screen institute Beirut Development &
Production Grants, Bidayyat Production Grant, Ittijahat Post-Production Grant, OIF Award Beirut
Cinema Days Film Festival, Sound Post Facility Tonemestrene Award Malmo Arab Film Festival.
Total film budget:340500 €
Assets needed to complete the budget:31000 €
Producers: Rami Nihawi
Production company: SakaDo LTD
Contact : rami.nihawi@gmai.com
Synopsis
I was born in Damascus for a Palestinian father and an Egyptian mother, holding a Jordanian nationality.
My father, Ibrahim, was a member of the “Revolutionary Council”, Abu-Nidal group . In 1987, I was 6 years old when my father left for a short mission. But he never came back.
My film deals with the story behind the disappearance of my father, the subject that was never talked about in our family. I hope that by understanding the choices my father made, I will be able to live with how that has influenced me in making my own choices today.
Statement of intent
It took me almost 30 years to understand how the absence of my father shaped my choices in life, and left me with an empty space with a lot of questions about the image of the “ Man “ and the “Home”.
5 years ago I decide to begin a journey to reconciliation with my past to understand my chooses in the future.
LINA ALABED
A Palestinian filmmaker Born in 1980, Graduate from the Faculty of journalism- Damascus University.
Her first short Doc "Noor Alhuda" awarded the DOX-BOX jury prize in 2010.
She produced and directed her feature doc "Damascus my first kiss", broadcasted on arte channel in 2013.
" A Dream Of Powerful Monsters" Her second short film was awarded the best documentary film at the Arab Short Festival in Beirut 2014.
Rami Nihawi
Born in 1982 in Lebanon, graduated in 2005 with a bachelor degree from the Fine Arts Institute.
He participated in various film and theatre productions fulfilling different roles like acting, camera, editing, directing & producing.
In 2011 he made his first feature documentary “YAMO”.
Since, he is working as a producer for Sakado LTD.
Genre : Fiction
Country(ies) of production: Rwanda, Belgium, France, Germany
Language: French / Swahili
Subtitles: English, Dutch
Running time of the submitted copy: 60
Estimated running time of the film: 90
Present status of the film: Post-production
What is still needed to complete the film:
Editing / Color grading / sound edit / mixing
Funds or awards received: Open Doors
(Locarno), Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde (Cannes) Forum de Namur (FIFF), Ateliers Grands Nord.
Awarded “most promising screenplay” by Canal France International (CFI) at the Durban Film Market,
Development funds at the uxor Film Festival. Funded by: World Cinema Fund (Berlin), Cinémas du
Monde (CNC), Belgian Film Commission and Belgian Cooperation, Eurimages, Tax Shelter Belgium,
TV5, Canal International, BeTV.
Total film budget: 950.000 €
Assets needed to complete the budget: 50.000 €
Producers: Aurélien Bodinaux
Production company: Neon Rouge Production (NRW sprl)
Contact : aurelien@neonrouge.com
Co-production : Tact Production, Perfect Shot Films
Synopsis
In the Kivu jungle in Congo, Sergeant Xavier, a Rwandese hero of war, and the young and unexperimented private Faustin are in enemy territory where they wage a blurry war. When the two men lose their battalion, they are left alone without resources, lost in the inextricable Congolese jungle. Alone, they must face their own demons.
Statement of intent
The Mercy of the Jungle shows the open wounds left by the fights and questions the place of humanity in armed conflicts. It is often said that war, through the death and many dangers it brings along, reveals the human soul. This very human soul, taken in particular circumstances, is questioned in the film.
Joël Karekezi
Joël Karekezi is Rwandan filmmaker, his first feature film Imbabazi: the Pardon, won the Nile Grand Prize 2014 at Luxor African Film Festival and has been screened in around 40 International film festivals. His next film The Mercy of The Jungle is currently in postproduction phase.
Aurélien Bodinaux
Aurélien Bodinaux is a graduate of INSAS - Belgium and a Master in Design at UNO - USA.
He directs Néon Rouge which produces documentaries and fictions.
Aurelien teaches for Africadoc, Africalia, ISIS (Burkina Faso) and INSAS (Belgium), etc. He is a member of the Film Commission of Belgium and the OIF.
Genre : Fiction
Country(ies) of production: Syria
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Running time of the submitted copy: 100
Estimated running time of the film: 100
Present status of the film: Post-production
What is still needed to complete the film:
Sound design / Sound Mixing / Music Special visual effects / Grading Subtitling Mastering
Funds or awards received: Winner of
Martine Filippi award for discovery - 29 URTI Grand Prix for Author’s Documentaries - Monte Carlo
TV festival -2010.
Total film budget: 696,077 €
Assets needed to complete the budget: 344,204 €
Producers: Amira Kaadan
Production company: KAF Production
Contact : a.kaadan@kafproduction.com
Co-production : Acrobates Film - France
Synopsis
It is the coldest winter in Syria 2012; all Sana dreams about is a hot shower and cooking gas to prepare a meal for her son. She takes a day off to search for a gas cylinder and end up stuck in the besieged area. After being lost during two days in the world of war, Sana returns home, having lost something of herself.
Statement of intent
This film was written in a country where tomorrow is an unimaginable thought. What is tomorrow if you are living under constant bombing? Alternating between the relief to be missed by the falling missiles and the grief it fell on someone else. That’s why the film doesn’t try to predict or talk about the future. It limits itself in three days of Sana’s life, in a precise moment of Damascus history.
Soudade Kaadan
Soudade Kaadan is a Syrian director born in France. . Her films have screened at several venues nationally and internationally and have received international awards She recently finished shooting her first feature fiction film “The Day I Lost My Shadow”.
Amira Kaadan
Amira Kaadan was born in Paris, France to a Syrian family. She earned her Executive Master in Business Administration from Dauphine University in Paris, France in 2010. She got introduced to the films and production business through her sister, Soudade Kaadan. She started as an assistant producer in the films "Looking for Pink" and "Damascus Roof and Tales of Paradise".
At end of 2011, she co-established a production company under the name KAF Production. She is currently working on the production of a fiction feature film "The Day I Lost my Shadow" and a creative documentary film, both conceived and directed by Soudade Kaadan.
Genre : documentary
Country(ies) of production: Tunisie/France/Qatar
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English
Running time of the submitted copy: 75
Estimated running time of the film: 80
Present status of the film: Post-production
What is still needed to complete the film:
Final edit, soundtrack, sound edit, mix, color grading, subtitling, credit design.
Funds or awards received: Ministère de la
culture tunisien, CNCI, Doha Film Institute, the Arab Fund for Art and Culture, SCAM, OIF, DOX
BOX residency.
Total film budget: 362 168 €
Assets needed to complete the budget: 12000 €
Producers: Dorra Bouchoucha, Palmyre Badinier
Production company: Nomadis Images
Contact : nomadis.images@planet.tn
Co-production : Les Films de Zeyna
Synopsis
In the form of a road movie, “La voie normale” draws the portrait of Tunisian railwaymen. On the rails, commanding the old engine, the protagonists of The Normal Way defend their own choices in spite of the risks.
Statement of intent
How are the young drivers able to lead the train to its destination if they are not given the tools and means to do it or the freedom to express themselves on the failures? On the railroad, a new generation redefines the standards.
Erige Sehiri
Erige Sehiri is a film-director and producer. In 2012, she directed a documentary “The Facebook of my father” and took part in the collective project “Family Albums” that won the “coup de coeur “prize at CINEMED 2012. In 2013, she co-founded the Tunisian media Inkyfada and produced several documentaries for television. Her feature film “The Normal Way” will be released in 2018.
Dorra Bouchoucha
After teaching English literature at the university, Dora BOUCHOUCHA founded the Carthage Film Festival (JCC) Projects Workshop from 1992 until 2006.
In 1994, she created Nomadis Images and produced documentaries, short films and feature films.
In 1997, she founded the SUD ECRITURE association, which has been training African and Arab authors for 20 years.
She was Director of the Carthage Film Festival (JCC) in 2008, 2010 and 2014, and founded Takmil the same year.
At the same time, she chaired in France between 2010 and 2013 the Production Assistance Commissions: “Fonds Sud Cinéma” and “Aide aux Cinémas du Monde”.
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