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mec film presents in December 2021
    
 
1. ERASED,___ ASCENT OF THE INVISIBLE at Tenk
2. IN VITRO in Romania and Spain
3. 1982 NINETEEN EIGHTY-TWO wins more awards and shows in Germany
4. Season Holidays
5. VoD of the month - DIARIES OF A FLYING DOG
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1. ERASED,___ ASCENT OF THE INVISIBLE at Tenk

Ghassan Halawani's multi-award winning essay documentary is onlie as VoD at Tenk in December.

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Thirty-five years ago, I witnessed the kidnapping of a man I know.
He has disappeared since.
Ten years ago, I caught a glimpse of his face while walking in the street, but I wasn’t sure it was him.
Parts of his face were torn off, but his features had remained unchanged since the incident. Yet something was different, as if he wasn’t the same man.
essay-documentary, Lebanon 2018, color and black & white, 76 min, Arabic and English with subtitles in div languages
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2. IN VITRO in Romania and Spain

Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind's dystopic short is showing in December at BIEFF in Timișoara in Romania and at San Sebastian's Ziema 2 Ziema (Spain).

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In Vitro is set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above.
In the hospital wing of the underground compound, the orchard’s ailing founder, 70-year-old Dunia is lying in her deathbed, as 30-year-old Alia comes to visit her. Alia is born underground as part of a comprehensive cloning program and has never seen the town she’s destined to rebuild.
short Sci-fi, Larissa Sansour & Soren Lind, Palestine/Denmark/UK 2019, 28 min, digital, picture ratio 1:2.66, Arabic with English subtitles
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3. 1982 NINETEEN EIGHTY-TWO wins more awards and shows in Germany

Highly acclaimed by the German press and with recommendation for schools, Oualid Mouaness' multi award winning feature opened in German cinemas on November, 4th and shows at art house cinemas throughout country. Last month the film won the UNICEF Award - Castellinaria Youth Film Festival in Switzerland and the Grand Prix Cannes Écrans Juniors in France.

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In June of 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon, a country just north of its border was already reeling from its ongoing fractious war.  In this feature debut, director Oualid Mouaness revisits this cataclysmic moment in Lebanese history through a different lens: a kid's point-of-view at a quaker school on the outskirts of Beirut.  As the geopolitical conflict inches closer and closer, 11-year-old Wissam (Mohamad Dalli) is more intent on finding the courage to tell his classmate that he loves her.  For a dreamer like Wissam, who is more likely to be drawing than playing football, it's hard to comprehend the gravity of the impending violence.  But for his teachers, Yesmine (Nadine Labaki) and Joseph (Rodrigue Sleiman), the jets in the sky signal something far more dangerous.  As they try to mask their growing fears for the sake of the students, they also attempt to hide the fractures in their relationship. They fall on different sides of the political divide and look a way to reconcile a relationship that seems irreconcilable due the nature of the war besieging the country they love.
Fiction, Oualid Mouaness, Libanon/USA/Qatar/Norwey 2019, 100 min, Arabic with German subtitles
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4. Season Holidays

The mec film office is closed between December 23rd 20221 and January 3rd 2022.
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5. VoD of the month - DIARIES OF A FLYING DOG

A man and his tiny dog have something in common: obsessive compulsive anxiety disorder. Throughout their quest to heal, they dissect into pieces their surrounding - in its upbringing, fears, and constant inner conflict. A memory is recalled; a memory filled with fear, violence, war, love and a past almost depicting itself again in the present and in the future. The setting is a family’s house. A father, a mother, sons, daughters, and grandchildren living on a versant in Lebanon. The time is when beauty faded and ugliness and expiation prevailed. The man is the director, the dog is the mirror and the film is the instrument.
documentary, Lebanon/UAE, 2014, colour, digital, 75 min, Arabic with English subtitles
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