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Professional Encounters 2022 / participating films
Participating Projects
Brainless • Directed by Hicham Lasri
Produced by Ilham Raouf • Morocco
Nada sneezes, and her brain pops out onto the kitchen counter. She has no choice but to put it in a jug, floating in the water, and has to go back to her past to get her brain back in her head. Welcome to the age of the wireless brain.
Mnema • Directed by Selim Gribaa
Produced by Sahbi Kraiem • Tunisia
2028, in a gloomy and liberticidal Tunis, Nour suddenly succumbs to a deadly virus leaving Zaïn alone to face his grief. Zaïn’s world will be turned upside down again when he starts seeing Nour in his dreams.
Entre nous deux…Marseille • Directed & produced by Dima Al-Joundi • Lebanon
Dima, in 2022, a lonely woman who grew up in war-torn Beirut in the ’80s, finds herself forced to leave her country again and revisits the story of her meeting her painter sister in Lebanon in 1993. 30 years later, she decides to face her traumas and continues her quest to find the meaning of belonging and exile through her recent separation, loneliness, and immigration. Between her arrival in Marseille, her administrative problems, and her homesickness, will she finally be able to build a new life where the past and the present intertwine through a harsh reality?
And me too • Directed by Sondos Shabayek
Produced by Kesmat El Sayed • Egypt
An independent Cairene is entrapped in a room with her cleaner, conservative cousin, and secret boyfriend. She has to confront him about last night but to do so, she has to reveal his identity and their relationship to the two women and risk it all
The Missing Camel • Directed by Cheikh N’diaye
Produced by Ilham Raouf • Morocco
Shocked to hear Sarkozy assert that an African man has no history, Cheikh wants to prove that he is the descendant of a Senegalese king who fought French settlers. Starting in Mauritania in his grandfather’s footsteps, Cheikh’s journey will end in Senegal with his glorious ancestors.
Wonderland • Directed by Raed Andoni
Produced by Wadee Hanani & Saed Andoni • Palestine
Upon her arrival to Bethlehem, Anna, a French visual artist, excludes her young Parisian actor, Andre, from playing the role of christ in her video-art project and replaces him with Ziad, a young frustrated Palestinian actor who originated from the Aida refugee camp at the outskirts of the holy city.
100 jours avant la fin du monde • Directed by Dima El-Horr
Produced by Sabine Sidawi et Paul Rognoni • Lebanon
Beirut the Encounter is a mythical film as a starting point. The past intertwined with the present. Men frozen in expectation of the catastrophe while the collapse unfolds before our eyes as if in slow motion, at 50 frames/second.