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UMA VIDA SUSPENSA
UNE VIE SUSPENDUE (ADOLESCENTE, SUCRE D’AMOUR)
(França, Líbano, 1985, 90’)
dirigido por
*disponível apenas em território brasileiro
classificação indicativa 12 ANOS
SINOPSE
Samar é uma menina nascida na guerra. Sendo forçada a viver como nômade, ela cresceu entre combatentes, aprendendo a viver em um país em guerra. Os desafios diários que ela enfrenta contrastam com seu amor por comédias românticas egípcias, até que, um dia, a chance de encontrar com Karim aproxima essas duas partes da vida dela. Uma história de amor no coração de uma guerra.

CEUTA’S GATE
BAB SEPTA
(Morocco, France, 2019, 20’)
directed by
*available only in Brazil
age rating 10+
SYNOPSIS
Bab Septa (Ceuta’s Gate) consists of a series of reconstructed situations based on observations on the border of Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan soil, providing the scene for an intense trafficking of manufactured goods, sold at discount prices. Every day, thousands of people work there.

A SPACE EXODUS
(Palestine, Denmark, 2008, 5’)
directed by
*available in all countries
age rating 10+
SYNOPSIS
A Space Exodus quirkily sets up an adapted stretch of Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey in a Middle Eastern political context. The recognisable music scores of the 1968 science fiction film are changed to arabesque chords matching the surreal visuals of Sansour's film. The film follows the artist herself onto a phantasmagoric journey through the universe echoing Stanley Kubrick's thematic concerns for human evolution, progress and technology. However, in her film, Sansour posits the idea of a first Palestinian into space, and, referencing Armstrong's moon landing, she interprets this theoretical gesture as "a small step for a Palestinian, a giant leap for mankind".

IN VITRO
AL MUKHTABAR
(Palestine, Denmark, United Kingdom, 2019, 28’)
directed by
*available in all countries
age rating 10+
SYNOPSIS
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.

IN THE FUTURE THEY ATE FROM THE FINEST PORCELAIN
(Palestine, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar, 2015, 29’)
directed by
*available in all countries
age rating 10+
SYNOPSIS
A self-proclaimed narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain—suggested to belong to an entirely fictional civilization. Their aim is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands.

NATION ESTATE
(Palestine, Denmark, 2012, 9’)
directed by
*available in all countries
age rating 10+
SYNOPSIS
Nation Estate is a 9-minute sci-fi short offering a clinically dystopian, yet humorous approach to the deadlock in the Middle East. The film explores a vertical solution to Palestinian statehood: One colossal skyscraper housing the entire Palestinian population—now finally living the high life.