In collaboration with the Royal Jordan Film Commission the CMCA organised a series of screenings in Amman, Jordan. The documentaries were screened at the Rainbow Cinema – Jebel Amman from April 22nd to 25th starting at 7pm.
This free event was organized as part of the PriMed festival promotion.
Monday 22nd > 7pm
MISSING FETINE
by Yeliz SHUKRI
2017 – 75 min
Forced to marry at a very young age, Fetine Memish had to live in a foreign country and never saw her family or her homeland again. Her fate, like that of thousands of other girls exiled in similar circumstances, remained a mystery. Until the day her brother’s granddaughter embarked on a serious investigation to find her.
(Mediterranean Memory Award at PriMed 2018)
>>Here an extract
Tuesday 23rd > 7pm
ASHBAL, THE LION CUBS OF THE CALIFAT
by Thomas DANDOIS and François-Xavier TRÉGAN
2017 – 52 min
They are aged between 4 and 16 ans. In the Islamic State they are known as ashbal, the Caliphate’s lion cubs. These children have spent months in training camps being badly treated and brain-washed, then sent to the front line.
>>Here an extract
Wednesday 24th > 7pm
STRANGE FISH
by Giulia BERTOLUZZI
2018 – 53 min
The fishermen in Zarzis, a Tunisian town on the borders of Libya, set out each day wondering whether they will find a strange fish in their nets, the bloated corpse of a drowned emigrant.
(Broadcasting awards France3 Via Stella and Rai 3 at PriMed 2018).
>>Here an extract
Thursday 25th > 7pm
THREE THRESHOLDS: BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH
by Asuman ATAKUL FIRTINA
2017 – 61 min
Birth, marriage and death are three stages of life which every community in the world celebrates. Rites organised according to specific cultural codes mean the individual feels part of a group at the important moments of his life.
(Art Heritage and Cultures award at PriMed 2018)
>>Here an extract
