During the Documentary Convention 2019 we organised two public screenings of award-winning documentary films from the Arab region in collaboration with the  Arab Film Festival Berlin (ALFILM).

Both screenings that were followed by discussions with the directors, took place at the Passage Kinos in central Leipzig and were an success with the audience.

Monday, 15 April, 20:45 @ Passage Kino

On the eve of his 90th birthday, life hangs by a thread for Antoine as he anticipates the visit of his daughter gone on a journey to South America, while his wife for 65 years, Viviane, also suffering from the aches of old age, endures an excruciating double sentencing: dealing with her daughter’s tragic death, and, concealing this unbearable truth from her husband – truth that would inevitably end the last beats of his fragile heart.

Tuesday, 16 April, 20:45 @ Passage Kino

It hasn’t been so very long since rich tourists from around the world came to stay in the luxury hotels of Sharm El Seikh. But the Arab Spring and the confusion of the post revolutionary period quickly robbed the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula of its charm as a go-to summer resort. Saturated with elements of surreal fiction, the documentary takes us to a shimmering city of ghosts to visit its last inhabitants -resort employees who feverishly dream among the abandoned hotel suites.

The Swing

Directed by: Cyril Aris
Lebanon 2018
74”, Arabisch OV mit Eng UT
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/275913236

Dreamaway

Directed by: Marouan Omara and Johanna Domke
EG, DE 2018
86”, Arabisch OV mit Eng UT
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/291951309