Algerian films “The Seas of the Mountains” by Karim Ainouz, “Cigar with Honey” by Camer Ainouz and “The Voice of My Mother” by Mourad Hamla compete in the first founding edition of the International Film Festival Yasmine Hammamet in northeastern Tunisia (June 4-11), according to the organizers.
The “Season of the Mountains” (2021), directed by the Brazilian-Algerian director Karim Ainouz, will compete in the International Competition for Documentary Films.
For his part, “Cigar with Honey” (2020) by Franco-Algerian director Camere Ainouz, an Algerian-French co-production, will enter the competition for the prizes of the International Competition for Feature Films
Cigar with Honey” deals in 100 minutes with the events of a conservative Algerian family who moves in the nineties to live in Paris (France), where the teenage Salma meets a French young man who is soon drawn to him and collides with many social and religious restrictions in her new environment, which plunges her into a whirlpool of conflicts and contradictions
In turn, Algerian director Mourad’s film “My Mother’s Voice” (2021) will compete in the International Short Film Competition. This 15-minute work, an Algerian production, tells about the mother
Outside of competition, and in the “Panorama of Short Films” category, the Algerian short film “Bridge” by Boukaf Mohamed Tahar Chaouki will be shown, which is the work crowned in 2021 with first place in the President of the Republic’s Award for Young Creators Ali Maachi (cinematic and audiovisual category) and the first prize for the National Days of Amateur Short Film in Bouira
During this festival, which opened yesterday, Saturday, in the presence of a number of faces of the seventh art, such as the Serbian director Amir Costa Rica, 65 films from 21 countries such as Turkey, Iraq, Iran, China, Syria, Venezuela, Russia, as well as Algeria will be screened, films crowned with major international film festivals
These films are divided into 12 films in the Feature Film Competition, 12 other films in the Short Narrative Film Competition, 6 films in the Feature Documentary Competition, in addition to 35 films that will be shown in the rest of the festival’s activities
The program of this foundational course includes a cinema forum that will be devoted to discussing “the identity of films and their nationalities” that will be activated by a number of specialists, and 50 specialized lessons (Master class) will be organized with the participation of experts from the world of cinema in order to create interaction between professionals and contribute to enhancing the knowledge and professional balance of activists in the field Film
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