Offical Competition Documentary

Since 2010 the Carthage Film Festival responds to the importance well entrenched of the documentary form in our regions and has devoted an entire section to it. Given the turbulent political events, the revolutions in the Arab world, the uprisings and changes in Africa, documentary filmmakers have responded to the urgency of witnessing what is happening in their country. Speech is now free, memory arises and the documentary becomes a major vehicle. This year, through the selected films, we wish to continue to deepen the debate on the political and social stories straightforwardly and without leaving room for taboos. Documentary has played and continues to play a reconciliating role with ourselves and our history, it expresses the need to have reality as a raw material, a reality we have been cut from a long time. We film, we question, we analyze, it is the long-awaited opportunity to leave the sclerotic world of dictatorship but also the sanitized preceptions we have on us. Africa as well as the Arab world have experienced colonization and dictatorial regime. Colonizing countries have projected their fantasies on us: Africa is seen as a land turned toward the past, only its traditions and rituals are highlighted; the Arab world is represented as the orient of the Arabian nights. Following our independence, we continued to grow these looks on ourselves, we have become "Orient orientalists" and exotics of Africa, adding to it the propaganda imagery of dictatorial regimes. Documentary creation brings a new look, a kind of introspection, through intimate movies but also through more general movies . Our selection has the ambition to discover the liveliness of Africa today and the diversity of the realities of the Arab world: discover the past, understand the present to build the future.

Movies

On the Bride's Side

Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry / Antonio Augugliaro / Gabriele Del Grande - Palestine ( 2014 )

On the Bride's Side

Trip Along Exodus

Hind Shoufani - Palestine ( 2015 )

Trip Along Exodus

28 nights and a poem

Akram Zaatari - lebanon ( 2015 )

28 nights and a poem

The Council

Alabdallah Yahya - Jordan ( 2014 )

The Council

Coma

Sara Fattahi - Syria ( 2015 )

Coma

Homeland (Iraq year zero)

Abbas Fahdel - Iraq ( 2015 )

Homeland (Iraq year zero)

Out On The Street

Jasmina Metwaly , Philip Rizk - Egypt ( 2015 )

Out On The Street

Checks and balances

Malek Bensmail - Algeria ( 2015 )

Checks and balances

Queens of Syria

Yasmin Fedda - Syria ( 2014 )

Queens of Syria

The Siren of Faso Fani

Michel K Zongo - Burkina Faso ( 2014 )

The Siren of Faso Fani

Coming of age

Teboho Edkins - South Africa ( 2015 )

Coming of age

Diaries of a flying dog

Bassem Fayad - lebanon ( 2014 )

Diaries of a flying dog

The road Bread

Hicham Elladdaqi - Maroco ( 2015 )

The road Bread

Fi rassi rond-point

Hassen Ferhani - Algeria ( 2015 )

Fi rassi rond-point

Brule la mer

Maki Berchache, Nathalie Nambot - Tunisia ( 2014 )

Brule la mer

Stray

Ahmad Fostok - Egypt ( 2015 )

Stray