Page 9 - CMN7_web
P. 9
DAY 7
Monday 14 May 2018
VILLAGE
Marché du Film
Events INTERNATIONAL
14 MAY
EVERY DAY, A FOCUS ON A PAVILION AT THE VILLAGE
INTERNATIONAL. TODAY, THE PALESTINE PAVILION.
DOC CORNER
Special Screening
14.00
Connect4Climate
Doc Corner Screening Room,
Palais des Festivals, Riviera, Aisle H
16.00
La Lucarne, ARTE
Doc Corner Screening Room,
Palais des Festivals, Riviera, Aisle H
Doc Talks
17.30
Documentary Festivals:
Drivers of Innovation
or Keepers of the Tradition?
– Presented by Paul Pauwels,
Director, European
Documentary Network (EDN) –
Doc Corner Screening Room,
Palais des Festivals, Riviera, Aisle H © ÉRIC BONTÉ/1000IMAGES
Rashid Abdelhamid and Mohanad Yaqubi from The Palestine Film Institute
GOES TO CANNES
10.00 PALESTINE’S FIRST PAVILION AIMS TO OPEN
Guadalajara Goes to Cannes
Palais K, Level 4, Palais des Festivals DOORS TO INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION.
12.00
Vilnius Goes to Cannes
Palais K, Level 4, Palais des Festivals HE PALESTINE Jerusalem. It serves multiple 16:00 and 17:00-19:00.
14.00 Pavilion is making its purposes by bringing awareness to The Palestinian film industry faces
Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes first appearance this year the rising involvement of Palestine many challenges finding funds
Palais K, Level 4, Palais des Festivals
at the Village in the film world and by for projects and distribution
T International. Its communicating the intention to international audiences.
presence here recognises Palestinian behind much of the content. The Palestine Cultural Fund
cinema as a creative force, both in “We face a dilemma when defining provides the only official funding
the Arab world and internationally. the Palestinian film scene as an for cinema in Palestine, and this
Pavilion 222 puts Palestine on the industry. Some feel this term money is typically used for cultural
world cinema map by giving the ‘industry’ limits the scene to dry projects. As a result, Palestinian
region’s film-makers and producers and pragmatic statistics describing producers often depend on
the opportunity to present their numbers of films and box office co-production with European
projects to a range of global revenue,” PFI Public Program countries, including France, the
distributors. Curator Mohanad Yaqubi said. UK, Germany and the Nordic
Palestine is presenting 10 “Most films about Palestine are region. Some Palestine film
feature-film projects, including made in order to change the officials, however, view
1 Ho Man Long and Rachel Lee five fiction films and five prevalent image and in order to these obstacles positively.
(Mega-Vision Project Workshop) documentaries. “The pavilion will fight the stigmas and the injustices “We believe that challenges
2 Kavi Jumani (Empire Networks), help shape a context and a structure that the Palestinian people live are what shape the aesthetics of
Sanjay Jumani (Sunstone Entertainment
India) and Rajat Agrawal (Ultra Media for the international film scene to under.” any film,” Abdelhamid said.
& Entertainment) deal and interact with Palestinian The Palestinian Pavilion is hosting “We should deal with these as a
3 Justina Petkeviciute and Amy George producers and film-makers,” a number of events to discuss the source of inspiration to find
(Parkland Pictures)
4 Tracy Lee and Alex Wu (Yi Animation) Palestine Film Institute (PFI) region’s expanding involvement in alternative solutions, both on the
5 Seraphine Schiffmann (SingularDTV) Senior Project Manager Rashid this field. Highlights include production level and the artistic
ALL PHOTOS © ÉRIC BONTÉ/1000IMAGES The PFI has organised the pavilion, Palestine’s delegation. On May 15, to enrich the process of making
and David Kelly (GazeCoin) Abdelhamid said. “[It] will open consultation sessions on the level, rather than complaining
6 Hossein Panahi and Mohammad doors for wider collaboration with presented films and a day delegated about them. We want to open up
Hossein Abbas Mohsen (Ayat Media)
7 Grace Chan and Daisy Wong film institutes and bodies from to providing Festival representatives discussions with other similar
(Entertaining Power) around the world.” with the opportunity to meet contexts and film scenes in order
film toward having a real impact on
the pavilion will present its film
which is funded by the Palestinian
their societies and audiences.” ✦
projects publicly at the Producer’s
Ministry of Culture in partnership
with the French Consulate in
Network Happy Hour from 15:00-
Chloe Teboe
9
NEWS
