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REPORT: VdR-Industry @ Visions du Réel 2021
Transfariana by Joris Lachaise, winner of the VdR-Work in Progress Award
Last week, Visions du Réel announced its industry awards, which were dominated by projects from North and South America and China (read news). In this article, Cineuropa profiles the European award winners.
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In his first feature-length documentary, Georgian director
Rati Tsiteladze so far best known for the 2018 EFA-nominated short
Prisoner of Society, and currently working on his first fiction feature,
Blue House follows his 31 year-old sister Dea. She has a strong desire to have a child and has been battling with infertility, social pressure and unfulfilled dreams in patriarchal society for ten years. When she finally gets pregnant, complications ensue and she loses the child. As Dea tries to confront her inner turmoil, new tensions arise and she starts questioning herself, God and her relationship with her husband. The project is being pr
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The film opens with the director and protagonist showing his UN ID card, saying loudly that he is leaving the organisation. This is followed by an image of Yarmouk s main street from happier times which morphs into the present view of the street: a barricade at the end of it, colour drained from the shelled buildings and people alike. Al-Khatib accompanies this and many other scenes with his poetic, yet often piercing view of the situation. He often talks about time: under siege, a day does not start with the sunrise or end with a sunset. Instead, its passing is marked by when one gets food.
film profile], world-premiered in Visions du Réel s International Competition and received the Interreligious Award. We exclusively bring you the trailer for the film.
The district of Yarmouk in Damascus sheltered the biggest Palestinian refugee camp in the world from 1957 to 2018. When the Syrian revolution broke out, the regime of Bashar Al-Assad saw Yarmouk as a refuge of rebels and resistance and set up a siege from 2013 on. Gradually deprived of food, medicine and electricity, Yarmouk was cut off from the rest of the world.
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Al-Khatib was born in Yarmouk and lived there until his expulsion by Daesh in 2015. Between 2011 and 2015, he and his friends documented the daily life of the besieged inhabitants, who decided to face bombing, displacement and hunger with rallying, study, music, love and joy.
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