Twin Cities Arab Film Festival 2021

Between Stagnation and Movement

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9 films in package
Bab Sebta / Ceuta’s Gate
Bab Sebta or Ceuta’s Gate consists of a series of reconstructed situations based on observations made on the border of Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan soil.
Ultimate Ink
A calligrapher receives a strange note from a client about a deceased man who has his same name.
Clebs / Mutts
In a stray-dog refuge in Agadir, Morocco, more than 750 animals find help and protection while awaiting adoption.
The Sailor
An Egyptian living and working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, reflects on his new surroundings through a series of images and observations.
Bethlehem 2001
While reflecting on the present, a young Palestinian recalls childhood memories of the military invasion and siege of Bethlehem. By trying to understand how his parents led him though those difficult times.
Now, If You Look At the Sky
Now, if you look at the sky is a video that takes the form of a ritournelle, a refrain, where lines, colours, and sound constitute a territory.
Galb' Echaouf
This film focuses on organic life in the desert to reconstruct people’s amnesia about the situation in Western Sahara.
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Walkout 1
Some time after a mysterious weather event caused a cloud of sand from a faraway desert to settle over an unnamed city, this miasma of dust shows no sign of lifting. Clogging up the eyes and choking the horizon, it has become a fact of everyday life.
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Rhythm of Forgetting
By juxtaposing scenes from present-day Lebanon with fragmented testimonies and dream-like sequences, the film journeys into the collective memories of a traumatic past that still haunts the present.
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We often get stuck in a rhythm, a pattern of movement that keep us in one place, tending to one situation, sometimes far longer than we intend. Whether (im)mobilized by convention or war or occupation, creatures desire movement and change: a push beyond the status quo, a changing of the guard, a revolutionary burst of energy to incite something different and new. In this series of short films, each film uses sound an image to explore the place between life and death, memory and forgetting, war and peace, and stagnation and movement.

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Brahim is a calligrapher who runs an epitaph sculpture workshop. One day, in his absence, he receives a strange note from a client placing an order for a tombstone for a deceased man who has his same name.

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Festivals and Awards

Festival national du Film, Morocco, 2020

International Virtual film Festival, Algeria, 2020

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About the filmmaker

Yazid El Kadiri is a Moroccan filmmaker born in Fez in 1996. He is laureate of a Master in Writing and Filmmaking from the Higher Institute of the Professions of Audiovisual and Cinema (ISMAC) in Rabat (2013-2018).He wrote and directed his first short film RElivre in 2014. In 2019, his short film The Swan Song, co-produced with SNRT and CYGNUS PRODUCTIONS, won 10 awards and was selected by more than 25 festivals around the world.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    21 minutes
  • Language
    Arabic
  • Country
    Morocco
  • Director
    Yazid El Kadiri
  • Screenwriter
    Yazid El Kadiri, Moncef El Kadiri
  • Producer
    Faycal ElKadiri
  • Cast
    Azerlarab Kaghat, Hashem Bastaoui, Malika El Omari
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