“Palestine in sight – First Palestinian Film Festival in the Rhône-Alpes
Created by the ERAP Association (Palestine/Rhône-Alpes Exchanges) this first festival of Palestinian film opened in Annecy (France) in May and will travel round ten of the region’s towns from June 3rd to 12th.
More than twenty screenings of ten different films are being shown. Through this festival, ERAP wants to inform the public of the Rhône-Alpes Region about Palestine, its society, its daily problems, culture, and particularly its rich cinematic art.
The festival’s guest of honour is Emad Burnat, a Palestinian farmer and film-maker. He is the first Palestinian to be nominated for an Oscar for his film “Five broken cameras”, selected by PriMed 2013.
The festival opened on June 3rd with the screening of the documentary “Les Chebabs de Yarmouk” with director Axel Salvatori-Sinz, ambassador Hael El Fahoum and Emad Burnat all present. “The Chebabs are a small group of boys and girls who have known each other since adolescence. Today, at the threshold of adulthood, they have a real thirst for life and the absolute, but all face complex realities. The choices are always difficult: between the need for freedom and belonging to a group, the desire to revolt and the prospect of a well-ordered life. But these choices are even more difficult when one is a Palestinian refugee in the Yarmouk camp, Syria.”
Participating in the debates: Béatrice Guelpa (journalist), Norma Marcos (“Fragment of a lost Palestine”), Shereen Suleiman (cultural service of the Mission of Palestine), Rashid Mashrawi (“Letter from Al Yarmouk”), Salvatori Sinz (“Les Chebabs de Yarmouk”), Amer Shomali (“18 fugitives”).
Source: erapinfo.free.fr
