Type: Feature narrative
Country of production: : Egypt
Language: Arabic
Estimated duration of the film: 90min
Film budget: 400. 000 Dollars
Email: kheidr@kheidr.com
Synopsis
12 October 92 in Dahshur area, in a fancy restaurant full of people having lunch, a different story at each table, different profiles from couples to friends, families and workers. 3:09pm tables start to shake, when suddenly in a blink of an eye everything collapses, they are all buried alive. Struggling to survive, each one will reveal its personality; A fight to stay alive by all means.
Mohamed Kheidr (Director )
Kheidr started his career early on, as a 14 year old storyboard artist, then got introduced to the wonders of the graphic design world.
2007 Kheidr opted for a career shift and studied filmmaking at the New York film Academy, choosing to dedicate his career to low budget productions. He established his production house Kheidr Dot Com and became a Director, Cinematographer, Script writer, Executive Producer, Art Director, and Music Composer. Turning his passion for art into his life’s work.
He directed his first short film Cabled in San Francisco, it was selected in the official competition at Karma human rights film festival in 2019. His second short film Tuktuk was shot in February 2020.
Kheidr Dot Com
(Producer )
Was established in 2001 out of the firm belief in utilizing marketing as a tool, not just to launch, promote or sell a product or service, but to ensure the well-being of the brand, raise its image, and simply make it shine.
Kheidr Dot Com started co-producing films in 2017. Cabled produced in 2019 and Tuktuk in 2020. Richter is the first feature film in development produced by the company.
Type: Feature Narrative
Country of production: : Gabon
Language: French
Estimated duration of the film: 105min
Film budget: 200 000 $
Email: matamba@dougantsi.com/ lesfilmsdu7@gmail.com
Synopsis
Mayombe (28), harassed one time too many by her first love Blasio (43), decides this will never happen again. He publicly demeaned her using sexuality when she was a teenager, so she does the same to him. She also corrupts his wife and their daughter, forcing them to admit their responsibility in perpetuating a patriarchal model harmful to young girls.
Matamba Kombila (Director )
Matamba Kombila, an award-winning filmmaker who started her career in film in 2014, has directed several short films and a mini Web / TV series. Most of her work have screened at international festivals or shows. With her production company Dougantsi Films, she also produces feature films and institutional or commercial content. Self-taught, her work aims at raising awareness to create better and more just communities.
Boubakar Gakou
(Producer )
Malian director Boubakar Gakou, President of the National Union of Filmmakers of Mali, has since 2011 directed and co-produced numerous short and feature-length fiction and documentary films. Over the years he has worked with ARTE France and several African and European production companies. Since 2018 he has branched out with Bandia Production. With his associates, he is committed to supporting the development of fictions, documentaries or TV series, and to the production and distribution of filmed content in Africa.
Type: Feature Narrative
Country of production: : Jordan
Language: English-Arabic
Estimated duration of the film: 110min
Film budget: 500 000 $
Email: deemad108@gmail.com/ cheriendabis@mac.com
Synopsis
Kareemah, an impulsive fire dancer, is set on not meeting her estranged father in Palestine when she visits her homeland to launch the eclectic Sufi Circus. She imagines strange circus performances when the occupation gets in the way. Their base is AMALS farm, whose home is threatened by the Israeli army. Kareemah accidentally meets her cousin SAMI and is confronted with her past. When a circus member is arrested, she seeks her father, finding a way through a reality more absurd than the circus.
DEEMA DABIS (Director )
DEEMA DABIS is a writer, director who strives to tell stories that are socially relevant and impactful. Her short film SHAKE (2014) was screened at festivals worldwide. She is currently developing her semi-autobiographical feature film SUFI CIRCUS. Deema has an MFA in Cinematic Storytelling, RSICA, focusing on Screenwriting and Editing.
Cherien Dabis
(Producer )
An award winning filmmaker and television writer director. Her first feature AMREEKA world-premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI award at Cannes. Dabis was named one of Variety’s 2009 “Ten Directors to Watch.” Dabis second feature MAY IN THE SUMMER, opened the 2013 Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Dramatic Competition and had its international premiere at Venice Film Festival. She has also written and directed on television shows such as EMPIRE and RAMY.
Type: Feature Documentary
Country of production: : Senegal
Language: French
Estimated duration of the film: 82min
Film budget: 110 270 €
Email: moussatouree@gmail.com
Synopsis
Lamine, a 39-year-old car salesman, tall, generous, life-loving with a contagious smile leaves Europe in a car that he is driving to Africa to sell in his home country, Mali. On the way, Lamine meets migrants stuck in North Africa who are turning their back on their European dream, willing to return home after years of hardship on their failed journeys to Europe. Lamine gives them a lift in his car called ‘Goodbye France’ and help them the best he can on their way back home.
Ahmadou Bamba Diop (Director )
I am a Senegalese documentary filmmaker with strong social engagement. I graduated from Média-Centre Dakar (Dakar Film School) in 1999. My first documentary was a plea for the abolition of FGM in Senegal with the Rap female activist Sister Fa (a joint project between the Goethe Institut Dakar, the Orchid Project UK and Tostan US/Senegal). My second documentary film “The Mad Man’s Truth” engages with Senegalese social poetry as developed by ThiernoSeydouSall since the 1980s. I’m currently working on my first feature film on African migration to Europe. I’m also using photography as an art and social approach within the framework of the group project “Regard sur la ville de Rufisque”.
Moussa Toure
(Producer )
Moussa Touré was born in Dakar, Senegal. He entered the film industry as an electrician, then became assistant director and finally directed his own short, “Baram,” in 1987. His first feature, “Toubab Bi,” made in 1991, was honored with awards at numerous film festivals.
In 1997 he directs “TGV” which is the real popular success in Africa and won the Special Jury Prize at the Namur Festival and the Audience Award at the 1998 Mannheim Festival.
Both actor, technician and director, Moussa Touré played in many films. He has directed so far, a dozen of films, taking all genres together, such as noticed documentaries. He is heading his own production company, “Les films du crocodile” in Dakar. The Senegalese film - maker has initiated the “Moussa invite” festival in Rufisque in Dakar. This festival promotes Africandocumentaries directed by Africans.
Type: Feature Documentary
Country of production: : Tunisia
Language: Tunisian Dialect
Estimated duration of the film: 85min
Film budget: 272 084.83 €
Email: lotfiachour.apa@gmail.com/ daoud.anissa@gmail.com
Synopsis
Blind Spot is an archaeological immersion in the “repressive staging” fabricated by the Ben Ali regime to get rid of its opposition. A film with absent actors, whose protagonists have disappeared. Either killed as victims, or torturers who chose silence.
Lotfi Achour (Director )
Cinema and theatre director, Lotfi Achour directed over 25 creations on several international scenes. His last spectacle was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company for the Olympic Games of London.
Trained in documentary directing in Les Ateliers Varan in Paris, he directed four short films multi awarded throughout the world, including Law of Lamb, in Official Competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. He directed the same year his first feature film, Burning Hope.
Anissa Daoud
(Producer )
Anissa Daoud produced within the company A.P.A, among others, the feature film Burning Hope by Lotfi Achour and his multi-awarded short film Father and Law of the Lamb, in Official Competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. She also produced the short films The Rest is Work of Man by Doria Achour and Eagles of Carthage by Adriano Valerio, both selected in the Mostra of Venice in 2016 and 2020.
She is currently developing a documentary feature film and two fiction feature films in addition to several short films.
Type: Feature Narrative
Country of production: : Tunisia
Language: Arabic and French
Estimated duration of the film: 90min
Film budget: 1 810 000 DT
Email: amineboukhris.tn@gmail.com
Synopsis
Arriving in Canada to settle, Salma realizes that she cannot practice her profession; her immigration consultant offers her professional training. Salma decides to start from scratch between the pain of fleeing and that of integration. She lives a life unlike hers, she does violence to herself but she continues to struggle regardless of her loneliness, doubts and worries. Montreal reveals itself in a different light through her gaze, immigration stories, lived experiences, and crossed paths that will be essential for her future in this country.
Amine Boukhris (Director )
Born in 1986 in Mahdia, Amine Boukhris studied cinema at the School of Arts and Decoration in Tunis and graduated in 2010. In 2011, he worked with APTN as a reporter and with the Al Arabiya channel in as a cameraman for the documentary “Safaat Al Bouazizi”. In 2013, he directed two short films: “Hamra Hamra” and “Le Grand Sud”. “War reporter” produced by the feu Néjib Ayed, his first feature documentary, selected and awarded several prizes including the Media Award in 2015.
Production Donia Films
(Producer )
Donia Films was created in 2018 by Amine Boukhris, with the aim of producing his own films. To his credit, several commercials and documentaries including are to mention: Degeneration, a 52-minute feature film, and two 26-minute short films: “Cockroach” and “Ali”. The company is also producing the “outsider”, a documentary in post-production, “Mole” is the first fiction feature film in development.
Type: Feature Narrative
Country of production: : Tunisia
Language: Arabic
Estimated duration of the film: 115min
Film budget: 850 000 €
Email: yol.filmhouse@gmail.com/ yol.filmhouse@gmail.com
Synopsis
In the Tunisian village of Chebba, lives Jannet, a young mother and worker in a textile factory. Jannet struggles to acheive the construction of her modest home to free herself from the grip of her husband’s family. At the factory, Jannet forms a union to protect the workers rights. But The Boss of the factory informs them that the company is going bankrupt. Jannet is devastated but decides to take control of the factory and to manage it with her comrades. This fierce battle will change Jannet’s life forever.
Fedhila Moufida (Director )
Moufida Fedhila is a filmmaker and a producer. Her film “Aya” won the Golden Tanit for Best Short Fiction at the Carthage Film Festival and had an international success and a brilliant career. It won several awards in worldwide film festivals and was selected in more than 200 film festivals. She co-founded “Yol Film House” and produced several award-winning fiction and documentary films. At the 34th Vues d’Afrique International Film Festival in Montreal, she received a tribute for all her work. She lives and works between Tunis and Paris.
Mehdi Hmili
(Producer )
Mehdi Hmili is a producer and a filmmaker. He co-founded “Yol Film House” and produced several award-winning fiction and documentary films. Cannes, Sydney, Milan, Clermont-Ferrand, Montréal, Paris, Los Angeles, Sarasota, Cape Town as well as at La Fabrique Cinéma of Cannes Film Festival, Qumra of Doha Film Institute, Cinelink of Sarajevo Film Festival. The company plays an active role in supporting Tunisian and international talents with strong potential for international coproduction and distribution. Mehdi Hmili is Torino Film Lab Alumni. He lives and works between Tunis and Paris.
