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The talented Hamoudi is an 11-year-old boy with a passion for soccer and an ultimate dream to one day reach the level of his idol Lionel Messi. The day Hamoudi is caught in a horrific suicide attempt, he wakes up severely injured in a hospital. As his parents struggle to keep the family safe, Hamoudi is determined to fight for his shattered dream.
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Latif Al Ani photographed Iraq for 30 years before multiple wars arose. At the age of 86, he travels through his devastated country in search of the people and places he photographed at the time, sharing his pictures with Iraqis who today cannot imagine that the world in the photographs was real.
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Latif Al Ani photographed Iraq for 30 years before multiple wars arose. At the age of 86, he travels through his devastated country in search of the people and places he photographed at the time, sharing his pictures with Iraqis who today cannot imagine that the world in the photographs was real.
Writer
Mainstream media have described the Brussels district of Molenbeek as the "jihad capital of Europe," after several suspects in the terrorist attacks on France and Belgium were revealed to have been recruited from its large Muslim community. In the heart of this troubled neighbourhood, Coiffure Zaïdi, a barber shop sitting just opposite a mosque, serves as a meeting place for locals of all ages. This is where award-winning director Sahim Omar Kalifa installed his camera, capturing casual conversations between clients of North African origins. As shocked and dismayed by recent events as anyone else, they discuss unemployment and failed integration, immigration policies and government surveillance. With a fly-on-the-wall approach to these animated debates, and a keen, humanizing eye for the most significant details, Kalifa composes a charming and vivid tableau of a population continually stigmatized and circumscribed by media stereotypes.
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Mainstream media have described the Brussels district of Molenbeek as the "jihad capital of Europe," after several suspects in the terrorist attacks on France and Belgium were revealed to have been recruited from its large Muslim community. In the heart of this troubled neighbourhood, Coiffure Zaïdi, a barber shop sitting just opposite a mosque, serves as a meeting place for locals of all ages. This is where award-winning director Sahim Omar Kalifa installed his camera, capturing casual conversations between clients of North African origins. As shocked and dismayed by recent events as anyone else, they discuss unemployment and failed integration, immigration policies and government surveillance. With a fly-on-the-wall approach to these animated debates, and a keen, humanizing eye for the most significant details, Kalifa composes a charming and vivid tableau of a population continually stigmatized and circumscribed by media stereotypes.
Writer
젊은 양치기, 자그로스는 임신한 아내 하빈과 소중한 딸과 함께 쿠르드 마을에 살고 있다. 그러던 어느 날, 그의 아버지는 하빈이 다른 남자와 바람을 피운다는 소문이 돌고 있다고 전한다. 자그로스는 아내를 믿기 때문에 흘려 듣지만, 얼마 지나지 않아 자신의 가족들이 하빈을 집에 가둬두고 추궁했다는 소식을 듣는다. 자그로스가 집에 돌아왔을 때는 아내와 딸은 가족들의 괴롭힘을 이기지 못해 이미 벨기에로 떠난 상태다. 하빈이 결백하다는 것, 그리고 함께 새 출발을 할 수 있을 거라고 믿은 자그로스는 벨기에로 밀입국을 시도한다. 천신만고 끝에 아내와 딸을 다시 만난 자그로스. 하지만 그의 마음에 자리 잡힌 의심의 싹은 걷잡을 수 없이 커져만 간다.
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젊은 양치기, 자그로스는 임신한 아내 하빈과 소중한 딸과 함께 쿠르드 마을에 살고 있다. 그러던 어느 날, 그의 아버지는 하빈이 다른 남자와 바람을 피운다는 소문이 돌고 있다고 전한다. 자그로스는 아내를 믿기 때문에 흘려 듣지만, 얼마 지나지 않아 자신의 가족들이 하빈을 집에 가둬두고 추궁했다는 소식을 듣는다. 자그로스가 집에 돌아왔을 때는 아내와 딸은 가족들의 괴롭힘을 이기지 못해 이미 벨기에로 떠난 상태다. 하빈이 결백하다는 것, 그리고 함께 새 출발을 할 수 있을 거라고 믿은 자그로스는 벨기에로 밀입국을 시도한다. 천신만고 끝에 아내와 딸을 다시 만난 자그로스. 하지만 그의 마음에 자리 잡힌 의심의 싹은 걷잡을 수 없이 커져만 간다.
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Young man Bahoz goes hunting in rural Kurdistan. He witnesses the rape of a young woman by an older man. He chases the man away and helps the woman to mend her clothes so she can conceal the rape from her family. That evening, Bahoz receives an unexpected visit...
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Young man Bahoz goes hunting in rural Kurdistan. He witnesses the rape of a young woman by an older man. He chases the man away and helps the woman to mend her clothes so she can conceal the rape from her family. That evening, Bahoz receives an unexpected visit...
Director
Iraq, 2009. Little Hamoudi (10) is totally obsessed with football. Just as the rest of the world, he and his friends are eagerly looking forward to the Champions League finale FC Barcelona-Manchester United. The long awaited clash between Messi and Ronaldo. But then Hamoudi's television breaks down...
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Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard Courant was invited by the Dubai International Film Festival, in the United Arab Emirates. It was an opportunity for him to film many "Cinematons" of personalities from the Arab world and to continue his "Film Notebooks" from which he brought back 7 episodes.
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Iraq, 1988. A land devastated by war (Iraq-Iran conflict). Dilleer (10) and his sister Zienee want to watch cartoons on television, but that becomes more difficult than expected when bully Malo comes along.
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Sahim Omar Kalifa's graduating Film.
