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My Name is Not Ali ( Egypt 2011 )

Color: Documentary, color, 93’

Direction: Viola Shafik

Screenplay: Viola Shafik

Director of Photography: Viola Shafik

Sound: Viola Shafik

Editing: Doreen Ignaszewski

Production: Shafik and Seif

Synopsis

His anti-racist film Ali – Fear Eats Soul (1973) gained German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder international acclaim. The protagonist is an Arab foreign worker, played by Moroccan El Hedi Ben Salem. My Name Is Not Ali uncovers the invention of El Hedi Ben Salem by the Fassbinder troupe, an image not revised by most of its members till today.

Réalisateur

Viola Shafik is a renowned film scholar and documentary filmmaker. Her work Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity is a groundbreaking analysis of genre, political-economy, and film culture. She is also the author of Popular Egyptian, Cinema: Gender, Class and Nation (2007). Her own films The Lemon Tree (1993), The Planting of the Girls (1998), The Mother of Light and Her Daughters (1999), and The Journey of a Queen (2003) have an international audience.