The Master International Film Festival-Yasmine Hammamet has selected a list of the best fiction and documentary feature films from the five continents in order to participate in the official competition of its first founding edition which will take place from June 4 to 11.
This selection of the Miff-Yasmine Hammamet has a total of 30 films in its various competitions including 12 films for the fiction LM competition, 6 films in that of the documentary LM, and 12 films in the fiction CM competition.
For the first fiction LM competition, contribute for the “Golden Galion”:
– Lebanese Michel Kamoun with the most recent of his films Beirut Hold’em which has just participated in the 1era Edition of the Red Sea International Festival (2021); A work that follows several cinematographic experiences in the short film, such as Catodieque (1993), Dhilal (Shadows), (1995), Ad-Douch (the shower), (1999), and his first LM fiction Falafel (2006).
Beirut Hold’emlasting 96 minutes, takes us to the cinematic genre of Michel Kamoun and his universes of the aesthetics and anxieties of humanity, where he evokes the repercussions of life on the thread of death in a city on the verge of war and bankruptcy.
In Beirut, Zico, the adventurer, with his childhood friends, defies life by playing what is akin to “Russian roulette”; A last bet that can be their salvation, because for Zico, the existence even in this city is a real bet …
– It is, in fact, another face of suffering, even if it changes places and time compared to Beirut Hold’emlife in Europafrom Haider Rashid, plays, in turn, from Kamel’s destiny, this 20 -year -old who fled Iraq through the Turkish and Bulgarian borders. Three days that Kamel will spend in the border forests, looking for an outing to the promised land.
EuropeanA, lasting 72 minutes, represents Iraq in the fictional fiction competition during this Miff-Yasmine Hammamet, and which was projected during the Cannes Festival in the “Directors’ Fortnight” section, in 2021.
Haider Rashid’s journey has several interesting experiences, including the film Matar Wachik who won the “gold kalak” prize and constitutes the first Italian film which deals with the rights to the citizenship of young people in the 2th generation residing in Italy.
– Quo Vadis Aïda?of her author and director Jasmila Zbanic, contributed to the short list of the best international film during the 93th Edition of the Oscars, and represented Bosnia in more than one international festival, whose official competition at the Venice Festival in 2020, and obtained the Golden Star, as best film, at the 20thth Edition of the El-Gouna Festival, as well as the Best Female Role Prize for its heroine Jassana Gorsitch.
It is not always that “the winners write history”, because the resistance can change the equation and, precisely, in the scenes of Quo Vadis Aïda?in 1995 in the city of Srebrenica, director Jasmila Zbanic attests to the massacre that took place there, through the history of the English teacher Aïda who acts as a translator between her fellow citizens and the peacekeeping forces under the police station – Unis.
Muslims’ massacre scenes, the assault of the Serbian army on Srebrenica, Aïda’s attempt to save his family, as well as other events.
A film that puts these scenes face to face with the horror of war and its scars on the features of our humanism.
– The experience of Belgian director Joachim Lafosse reflects a singularity and a specificity in the treatment of the subject and the aesthetic vision where he seeks, with the eye of a filmmaker tormented by human contradictory relationships, to show the paradoxes of life.
Joachim Lafosse’s cinema drew attention from the film The tribewhen obtaining his diploma, which obtained several prizes including that of the best short film at the Namur festival of the French-speaking film in 2001, while his film Special madness was scheduled for the Lucarno International Festival in 2004. As he participated in the Directors’ Fifteen Section at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, with Light student.
Joachim Lafosse was also present at the same festival in 2012 in the Un certain Look section with his film To lose the reason.
It is with the most recent of his films, Intranquilleslasting 118 minutes, that Joaquim Lafosse participates in the Miff-Yasmine Hammamet 2022; Film which has already participated in the international competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
In this film, the Belgian director continues to rummage at the bottom of his heroes through the story of Damien, the lover of his wife Leïla and where, despite that he suffers from dipolar disorders, tries to make his family happy.
– Honey cigarof the Franco-Algerian Kamir Aïnouz, who contributes in this competition of the L. M of fiction, relates in 1 hour and 40 minutes the history of Selma, the Algerian girl who is in conflict between her conservative roots and his desires for emancipation in an era when Algeria crumbles under the weight of religious extremism.
Kamir Aïnouz who studied in the script and realization, is considered the first director to open the days of Venezia, during the 77th edition of the Venice Festival with this same film Honey cigar.
– Gessica Geneus transcribes violence in Haiti through the events of her film Frida (94 min) and which was among the films present in the programming of a certain look at the Cannes Festival in 2021, where Frida tries to believe in the life and the future of his country.
– For his part, the French director Vincent Maël Cardona chose the period of the 80s as the theater of events of his film Magneticsfrom 98 minutes, which obtained the Grand Prix in the Directors’ Fifteen Section at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021.
This film reflects the special relationship between two brothers, Philippe and Jérôme, who spend their time scrutinizing the airwaves of their own radio, but Philippe’s call to do his military service will give rise to a new and different episode in the world of each of them.
– Director Maria Ivanova who has a rich experience in documentary cinema, returns again among us after the international first of her fiction Angerduring the 32th Edition of the JCCs, with which she returns for the Miff-Yasmine Hammamet 2022 in the fiction LM competition.
Anger is a dramatic humanitarian experience of Aïda, a young Lebanese woman who rebelled against religion and lives in difficult conditions where life has the tour between trahison and loyalty, the loss of beloved and the hope of a return to the fold.
-Jorge Thielen Armand signs, during this competition from the Miff-Yasmine Hammamet 2022, the presence of Latino and Venezuelan cinema through the events of his film La Fortalezalasting 108 minutes, which recounts Carlos’ psychological journey to fight against alcoholism, through Amazonian forests and under the weight of an economic situation in crisis.
– Egyptian cinema contributes to the competition of L. M of fiction, with the film Bara Al-ManhaJ (duration 100 min), from Amr Salama, whose events revolve around the situation of an orphan child, Nour, 13 years old, who seeks to gain respect for his comrades by venturing into an abandoned house, in front of their school, they fearing to go even before.
Nour will discover that this house is inhabited by an old man who lives hidden from the outside world, and with which he will establish an instructive friendship and relationship. A way to discover your being …
-The presence of Tunisian cinema will be marked, during this founding edition of the Miff-Yasmine Hammamet between June 4 and 11, by the second fiction feature film by Abdelhamid Bouchnak Golden butterfly (Fartattou Dhehab)lasting 90 minutes, who dares daringly the relationship of Moez, a police officer in his thirties and his bloodthirsty past, with a young child who will be a factor for him to face the underside of his life.
– the very last of Néjib Belkadhi films, Communion (Korbane)from 92 mins, whose world first was at the International Red Sea Festival and which has just obtained the Grand Prix of the Luxor African Cinema Festival of 2022, recounts the life of Kaïs, suffering from psychosis, and his wife Sarra, active in civil society, under the weight of the corona pandemic.
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