Middle East: What Cinema Can Do is proud to present 60 films over a 14-day period. One third of the films are shorts and two-thirds are documentaries, each painting a different facet of the bigger picture. Docu-fiction works are more and more prevalent as filmmakers begin to portray the reality in their countries, searching new ways to communicate their messages. The TV format has also become a popular form of expression and outlet to get films seen; a dozen will be screened. A number of features, both fiction and documentary, will be seen at the festival before being released in theatres next year.

From the more than 150 films previewed, the films chosen illustrate the daily theme in which they will be shown, from Iraq and Kurdistan to Syria and Lebanon, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Gaza, Jerusalem, but also the Arab Spring, Women, Strangers in their own land ….
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Screening date : 11/12/2011 -- 14h00
Jerusalem Moments 2009
The Jerusalem Moments Film Project started in 2007, in partnership with the Jerusalem Cinematheque. Each year, Ir Amim, a non-profit organization seeking to render Jerusalem a more equitable city for Israelis and Palestinians, chooses directors to address the subject in film. In 2009, seven films focused on the realities of life in Jerusalem. 

Screening date : 11/12/2011 -- 16h00
Jerusalem Moments 2011
The Jerusalem Moments Film Project started in 2007, in partnership with the Jerusalem Cinematheque. Each year, Ir Amim, a non-profit organization seeking to render Jerusalem a more equitable city for Israelis and Palestinians, chooses directors to address the subject in film. In 2011, the project focused on three young Palestinian leaders working for change in their communities.

Screening date : 03/12/2011 -- 18h00
Kick Off
Inside a beat up stadium in Kirkuk, Iraq, lives many refugees trying to escape Sadam Hussein's administration. Asu lives with his younger brother who has lost his legs from a landmine. Next door lives Hilin, who has not been able to express her feelings. To cheer up everyone, Asu decides to organize a football match between people of all nationalities… To cheer up everyone, Asu decides to organize a football match between people of all nationalities…

Screening date : 05/12/2011 -- 18h00
Lone Samaritan
The Samaritans, a tiny religious sect, are dying out. But they still maintain extremely harsh rules against assimilation: If you leave the fold, you and your family are as good as dead. Israeli actress Sophie Tzedaka is one such woman. One by one, she and her three sisters became "Jews" and were excommunicated by their 700-person community. So was their father.



Screening date : 10/12/2011 -- 20h30
Man Without a Cellphone
Like all young people, Jawdat simply wants to have fun with his friends, spend time talking on his cell phone and above all find love… But Jawdat is an Arab Israeli. He dates girls, Muslim girls, Christian girls, even Jewish girls with no success, and desperately tries to pass a Hebrew test that will allow him to study at a university and leave his village.


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