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Il turno
The Shift

Elvio Manuzzi, Pietro De Tilla, Tommaso Perfetti | 00:32 | 2012 | Italy

A hydroelectric company employee is caught up in his usual routine down in the valley while, above him, his colleagues who watch over the dam await the helicopter that brings the change of shifts. On the one hand, we see the warmth of family relationships, words and affectionate gestures; on the other, the austerity and solitude of the...

Il turno (Italy)

Screenings

21.04 14:30 Capitole 1 Buy
22.04 18:00 Capitole 2 Buy

Indama Ya’ati al-Masa
Nightfall

Mohamad Soueid | 01:08 | 2000 | Lebanon

In 1975, a group of Lebanese students joined Fatah, the Palestinian resistance movement. 25 years later, the filmmaker looks back at this period and meets some of his former comrades. Open and spontaneous testimonies about commitment, memories and solitude are shared through nights overflowing with drunkenness and songs. They drink to...

Indama Ya’ati al-Masa (Lebanon)

Screenings

19.04 16:00 Capitole 1 Buy

Insein Rhythm

Soe Moe Aung | 00:10 | 2013 | Germany, Myanmar

Insein Railway Station lies on the Yangon Circular Railway, in Myanmar. Not far from the infamous Insein prison. First-time director Aung Soe Moe composes a carefully crafted portrait of the daily activities that surround the railway station. The rhythmic pattern becomes the unspoken hope for a collective work that is bound to provoke...

Insein Rhythm (Germany,Myanmar [Burma])

Screenings

23.04 18:00 Usine à Gaz Buy
26.04 13:00 Usine à Gaz Buy

Israland

Eyal Sivan | 00:58 | 1991 | France

Shot during the Gulf War in 1991, the film juxtaposes two very different realities. On one hand, the brutal daily life of the people inhabiting Tel-Aviv forced to seek shelter during the attacks that the American forces launched against the Iraqis. On the other hand, Israeli and Arab workers sharing the same building site while working on...

Israland (France)

Screenings

20.04 13:30 Usine à Gaz Buy

It's all in Lebanon

Wissam Charaf | 01:02 | 2012 | Lebanon, France

Through an abundance of TV propaganda images, contemporary media icons and video clips, we embark on a journey into the heart of Lebanese pop culture since the end of the civil war. In a country where instability is a constant, the mass media play a major role in the reconstruction of a nation and its identity – and perhaps also in...

It's all in Lebanon (Lebanon,France)

Screenings

19.04 16:00 Capitole 1 Buy

Itgaber - Le triomphe sur soi
Itgaber - He Will Overcome

Eyal Sivan | 02:50 | 1993 | France, Israel

Yeshayahu Leibowitz was born in 1903 in Riga, Latvia. He fled from Russia in 1916 and sought shelter in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. As the Nazis rose to power, being a committed Zionist, he left Germany and headed for Palestine. Over the years he has become a controversial figure due to his strong beliefs that Israel should leave...

Itgaber - Le triomphe sur soi (France,Israel)

Screenings

21.04 14:00 Usine à Gaz Buy

Izkor - Les esclaves de la mémoire
Izkor - Slaves of Memory

Eyal Sivan | 01:37 | 1990 | France, Israel, Germany

The film discusses the biblical command to remember (‘Izkor’) as the foundation of the Zionistic state. April is the most intense time of Israeli festivals. It begins with the celebration of the Passover festivities and goes on with the commemoration of the victims of the Nazi crimes and the national Memorial Day for the fallen Israeli...

Izkor - Les esclaves de la mémoire (France,Israel,Germany)

Screenings

22.04 14:00 Usine à Gaz Buy