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Festival des Cinemas Arabes – Institut du Monde Arabe – Paris: 29th of June – 8th of July
FLC partnered for the first time with the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) on the festival of Arab Cinema happening for the first time after a long break.
Lebanon opened the festival with the film of Nadine Labaki “Capharnaum”. The film was screened in the presence of the director and the opening ceremony was conducted by the talented actress Darina el Joundi.
Lebanon was also represented through Lucien Bou Rjeili’s feature film, “Heaven without people”; Rania Stephan’s documentary, “Train-Train2: Une derivation” Anthony Chidiac’s documentary “Room for a man”, and Shirin Abu Shaqra’s documentary “What happened to a displaced ant”, in addition to the short films “Bonbone” by Rakan Mayas, “Salamat from Germany” by Rami Kodeih and Una Gnujak, Darine Hotait “Like Salt”, Marwan Khneisser “The servants”, Fadi Baki, “The Last days of the man of tomorrow” and “the president’s Visit” by Cyril Ariss.
We had the honor to participate to an homage to the great director Jean Chamoun who left us a year ago. FLC was happy to help translating a small booklet about the director and his long career. Mai Masri, Chamoun’s wife and partner, was also present during the homage and opened the screening of Chamoun’s film “l’Ombre de la Ville”.
In parallel to the screenings, Myriam el Hajj from FLC was also present at the festival to take part in a round table on the writing workshops in France and in the Middle East, introducing our annual Rewriting Workshop.
Lucien Bou Rjeili’s Heaven without people won 2 prizes during the closing ceremony: Special Jury prize, and best collective Acting. Rania Stephan received the IMA prize for her mid-length documentary, “Train-train2: une derivation”.[/fusion_text][images picture_size=”fixed” autoplay=”no” columns=”1″ column_spacing=”13″ scroll_items=”” show_nav=”yes” mouse_scroll=”no” border=”yes” lightbox=”yes” class=”” id=””][image link=”” linktarget=”_self” image=”http://l5i.c3c.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ima-1.jpg” alt=””][image link=”” linktarget=”_self” image=”http://l5i.c3c.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ima-ceremonie-cloture-IMA-2.jpg” alt=””][image link=”” linktarget=”_self” image=”http://l5i.c3c.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/layne-may-booklet-jean-IMA-3.jpg” alt=””][image link=”” linktarget=”_self” image=”http://l5i.c3c.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/lucien-IMA.jpg” alt=””][image link=”” linktarget=”_self” image=”http://l5i.c3c.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/mai-masri-IMA.jpg” alt=””][/images]