The “official out -of -competition selection” of Carthage’s cinematographic days is a section highlights recent African and Arabic films each year to enhance these works and reveal the talents of southern cinema in all its diversity.
For this edition of JCC 2019 Nejib Ayed, the off -competition section highlights Arabic, Maghreb and Tunisian cinema.
Before it is too late First fictional feature of the young Tunisian director Majdi Lakhdar, is the only Tunisian film of this official selection outside competition from the 2019 JCC and will be screened worldwide during one, “Special sessions”. The film, tells the story of Ali, who lives with his family in a ruined house and which risks collapse. He devotes his days to dig under the house to find a supposed treasure hiding there … But, the house that houses the family collapses, and Ali finds himself in front of his reality, and the family whom he forgot to love and save. Between illusion and hard reality, he will face, “before it is too late” for his real problems and his family.
The only documentary in this selection is Into Studio Masrfirst documentary feature documentary by Egyptian director Mona Assaad produced and produced in 2019. He traces the fight of a young cinephile group who decide in 2000 to buy and modernize the legendary “Masr studio” temple of Egyptian cinema put in stomach in 2000. Back on an adventure that lasted 15 years. A film rich in history and passion for cinema.
The lost From Said Khallaf (Morocco-2019) is a film that tells through the story of Mourad, several aspects of current Moroccan society: social injustice, inequality of the distribution of wealth. Mourad victim of an accident is helpless and his “masculinity” just as his power is questioned …
The film wHen We Are Born From Tamer Ezzat (Egypt 2019) is a fiction made up of three parallel stories, or in each the main character is faced with the difficulties suffered and not consented. Everyone in front of their own challenge and their own history but all united by this social and cultural “impediment”… The stories meet in songs which express the internal battle of each, and that of all to free themselves and exist.
Press release
The “official out -of -competition selection” of Carthage’s cinematographic days is a section highlights recent African and Arabic films each year to enhance these works and reveal the talents of southern cinema in all its diversity.
For this edition of JCC 2019 Nejib Ayed, the off -competition section highlights Arabic, Maghreb and Tunisian cinema.
Before it is too late First fictional feature of the young Tunisian director Majdi Lakhdar, is the only Tunisian film of this official selection outside competition from the 2019 JCC and will be screened worldwide during one, “Special sessions”. The film, tells the story of Ali, who lives with his family in a ruined house and which risks collapse. He devotes his days to dig under the house to find a supposed treasure hiding there … But, the house that houses the family collapses, and Ali finds himself in front of his reality, and the family whom he forgot to love and save. Between illusion and hard reality, he will face, “before it is too late” for his real problems and his family.
The only documentary in this selection is Into Studio Masrfirst documentary feature documentary by Egyptian director Mona Assaad produced and produced in 2019. He traces the fight of a young cinephile group who decide in 2000 to buy and modernize the legendary “Masr studio” temple of Egyptian cinema put in stomach in 2000. Back on an adventure that lasted 15 years. A film rich in history and passion for cinema.
The lost From Said Khallaf (Morocco-2019) is a film that tells through the story of Mourad, several aspects of current Moroccan society: social injustice, inequality of the distribution of wealth. Mourad victim of an accident is helpless and his “masculinity” just as his power is questioned …
The film wHen We Are Born From Tamer Ezzat (Egypt 2019) is a fiction made up of three parallel stories, or in each the main character is faced with the difficulties suffered and not consented. Everyone in front of their own challenge and their own history but all united by this social and cultural “impediment”… The stories meet in songs which express the internal battle of each, and that of all to free themselves and exist.
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