A programme by Fondazione Mediterraneo to favour the mutual understanding through meetings, images and music
section "Inspiration" | ||
Gabriella Valentini / The Tunisian community in Mazara del Vallo. A look at this story of integration, at what was done and what still has to be made. | Federico Ferrone, Akram Adoini / Tunisia The story of a community that not only belongs to the past, but which also shows how tolerance and harmony between the two shores of the Mediterranean is possible. | |
section Short Films already realised | ||
Adam Dancan / UK A western HR manager offers to promote a Muslim book-keeper if she will change her appearance. | Sivan Ben Ari / Israel Hadar, a future mother, is struggling with herself whether to circumcise her son according to the Jewish tradition... | |
Gil Seltzer / UK New York City. Post-9/11. We’re in a state of heightened alert. A strange old man appears in one of the city’s most magnificent architectural halls carrying a mysterious book... | Javier Guerrero / Spain Two different responses to the search for an ideal future in a consumeristic society. | |
Elika Hedayat / France I decided to interview the Iranian women in Tehran and the French women in Paris, to ask them only one thing: what is the most important question of their life? | Hedy Krissane / Italia A day of an immigrant in Turin, between normality and repulsion. | |
Bernardo Borgeson / Sweden, Syria Filmed in the monastery Mar Musa, founded in the 6th century in the Syrian desert, a living testimony of Christian love for Islam through dialog and collaboration with Muslims. | Marisa Lafuente / Spain A Senegalese and a Spanish woman in a car during the New Year Eve, two strangers that will confess their most intimate secret... | |
Franco Dipietro / Italy 3 African musicians immigrated in Turin. One day they find some old folk music records in a basement. A strange adventure starts... | Adrian Westbrook / The eternal story: Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl – depending on where you're from... True love may conquer all, but can it best the clichés and expectations of international cinema? | |
Shohreh Jandaghian / Germany In the world where adults make wars and destroy each other, a little girl is thinking of peace. | Stephan Koral / People get on and get off from a tram, like in normal life... | |
out of competition | ||
Eray Mert / Turkey Something in which you can place human beings - a film on a journey towards freedom. | Çagla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti / Germany A Turkish Lanscape designer from Ankara discovering the Allotment Garden culture of Berlin and seeing this typical German world through her Turkish eyes. | |