Arab Fall
Three years after the "Arab Spring", we have reason to wonder what actually happened and why the euphoria didn't hold. While the world initially perceived the events as sudden, revolutionary eruptions, we must now recognize that they have transformed into plodding, often violent processes with many setbacks. The future course of the events is hard to predict. The three films in the program, ARAB FALL, offer counter-perspectives both against the blind euphoria of the beginnings as well as the defeatism of the impatient who have already turned to other spectacles.
The Facebook of my Father
Erige Sehiri sets off to meet her father. It seems that the Tunisian revolution and his new addiction to Facebook completely changed him, driving him away, perhaps forever. After 40 years in France, the images of a revolting people also set free something in him: virtually overnight he took off to Tunisia to return to the village of his childhood and to become part of that new era. There he is: enthusiastic, happy, smiled upon by his neighbors, urged via skype by his wife to return, and filmed by his daughter.
- Frankreich
- 00:21:00
- Director: Erige Sehiri
- Languages: ar,fr
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2012
- A38-Production Grant
- German Premiere
A Matter of Fact
Aiming the camera to the ground, the artist takes a walk around Cairo. The time is now, a moment between the revolution and the future. Since what we see is reduced by the downward gaze, our ears are alert to the sounds and voices emanating from off-screen. A powerful little performance with a handy-cam which tells us more about the present than many inside reports with their flood of images.
- Deutschland, Ägypten
- 00:10:05
- Director: Roshanak Zangeneh
- Production: Ute Dilger
- Photography: Roshanak Zangeneh
- Editing: Sunjha Kim
- Music: keine
- Sound: Roshanak Zangeneh
- Year: 2013
CROP
CROP is reflecting upon the impact of images in the Egyptian Revolution in 2011. The film refrains from showing any images of the uprisings and their aftermath, but rather reveals the inside of a newspaper building: Egypt´s oldest and most influential state newspaper Al-Ahram – from the executive office to the printshop. While a clamly observing camera takes in details of the daily procedures in one of the bulwarks of the regime, the story of a photo journalist, who missed the revolution due to a hospital stay, evolves on the soundtrack. His voice gives a personal reflection to the media ploys of the old regime and his own second thoughts about his personal responsibilities.
- Deutschland, Ägypten
- 00:47:08
- Director: Johanna Domke, Marouan Omara
- Production: Johanna Domke
- Photography: Melanie Brugger
- Editing: Johanna Domke, Emad Maher
- Music: Abdel Halim Hafez
- Sound: Bilgehan Özis
- Languages: en
- Year: 2013
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