The San Sebastian International Festival organises Cinema in Motion, a yearly professional rendezvous initially aimed at filmmakers from the Maghreb and Portuguese-speaking African countries, created in collaboration with two European festivals, Amiens (France) and Fribourg (Switzerland), which for several years have been providing efficient aid to filmmakers from these countries, opening new international perspectives for their projects.

The Tarifa African Film Festival also closely collaborates with Cinema in Motion with an annual tour endeavouring to contribute to the regular circulation in Latin America and Spain of films made in the Maghreb and Portuguese-speaking African countries.

The programme will comprise films by directors who have presented their new projects at Cinema in Motion.

The screenings in Mexico, Buenos Aires, Bogota and Medellin will be attended by selected African filmmakers and professionals from the sector in each capital with a view to facilitating contacts and making films known in countries where they are practically absent from the commercial cinema circuit.

The aim of this venture is to familiarise film buffs, critics and professionals in general with the work and directors of Cinema in Motion, while they complete their new projects, and to lay the way for distributors to pick up the baton in the best possible conditions.

San Sebastian International Film Festival Tarifa African Film Festivalpresent

CINEMA IN MOTION 2 in Latin America

Eleven filmmakers from Algeria, Morocco, Mozambique and Tunisia

• Kalthoum Bornaz – KESWA – LE FIL PERDU (Tunisia - Morocco - France, 1997)
• Mourad Boucif – LA COULEUR DU SACRIFICE (Belgium - Morocco, 2006)
• Sol de Carvalho – O JARDIM DO OUTRO HOMEN (Mozambique, 2006)
• Julien Dubois and Fodil Chabbi – CHOUÏA CINEMA (France, 2003)
• Hicham Falah and Mohamed Chrif-Tribak – BALCON ATLANTICO (Morocco, 2004)
• Jean-Pierre Lledo – UN REVE ALGERIEN (Algeria - France, 2003)
• Saïd Ould-Khelifa – LE THE D’ANIA (Algeria - France, 2004)
• Jilani Saadi – TENDRESSE DU LOUP (Tunisia, 2006)
• Lyes Salem – COUSINES and JEAN FARES (Algeria - France, 2003)

More information about the films (pdf)

UNAM Film Archive, Mexico
1st-yth June 2007

Complejo Teatral, Buenos Aires
Fundación Cinemateca Argentina
Sala Leopoldo Lugones at the Teatro San Martin
14th-19th June 2007

Cinemateca Distrital, Bogota
and
Antioquia Museum, Medellin
25th-30th June 2007

Contacts:

• San Sebastian International Film Festival
  salesoffice@sansebastianfestival.com
  www.sansebastianfestival.com
  
  
• Tarifa African Film Festival
  mane@fcat.es
  www.fcat.es

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In September 2005, the San Sebastian International Film Festival, the Amiens International Film Festival and the Fribourg International Film Festival launched Cinema in Motion, a new yearly professional rendezvous for filmmakers from the Maghreb and Portuguese-speaking African countries.

With Cinema in Motion 2, the three festivals continue to explore new ways of completing as yet unfinished projects and films, while serving as an efficient bridge between professionals, companies and institutions in these African countries, Europe and Latin America.

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Projects:

• Entre parenthèses, by Hicham Falah and Mohamed Chrif Tribak (Morocco). The political and sentimental apprenticeship of the last generation of politicised students in the Morocco of the 80s.
  
  
• Les larmes d’argent, by Mourad Boucif (Morocco-Belgium). The life of a young Moroccon peasant is cut short with his obligatory enlistment for the French army in 1940, when German troops invade Belgium and Holland.
  
  
• Mascarades, by Lyes Salem (France-Algeria). Marrying off a young girl affected by sleeping sickness is a real nightmare for her brother and head of the family.

Films at the post-production stage:

• L’Autre moitié du ciel, by Kalthoum Bornaz (Tunisia). Twins, a boy and a girl, are inseparable for their widowed father who lives his life. But the social rules favouring men cool their complicity…
  
  
• Ne restent dans l’Oued que ses galets, by Jean-Pierre Lledó (Algeria-France). Five people try to find the hidden truth behind the relations between Muslims, Jews and Christian in the last throes of colonial Algeria.
  
  
• Vivantes, by Saïd Ould-Khelifa (Algeria-France). A group of cleaning women suffer the extreme violence of men in a Saharan petrol camp, only to have the family doors slammed in their faces on returning home.

These projects and films will be presented on Monday the 25th of September to an exclusively professional audience from the different areas of the film industry. Several kinds of aid will be offered at Cinema in Motion 2:

• French Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (15,000 euros to post-production in France), Mactari mixing auditorium (15,000 euros in services), Titra Film (French subtitles) and Mikros Images (post-production adapted to the specific needs of the chosen film) Award. Amiens Festival will offer a 35 mm copy of the film.
• Swiss Effects and Kodak Suisse (conversion from a digital format to 35 mm film for an approximate value of 30,000 euros) and Titra Film (French subtitles) Award. Fribourg Festival will offer a 35 mm copy of the film..
• All of the chosen filmmakers will have the opportunity to participate in a yearly Cinema in Motion tour of Argentina, Colombia and Mexico organised by the San Sebastian Festival and the African Cinema Festival of Tarifa.
• Amiens Festival will offer one of the participating projects a reading of its screenplay at its next edition.

Cinema in Motion thanks the said companies and institutions, in addition to the Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània (Barcelona), Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI), Fundación Audiovisual de Andalucía; Ateliers du Cinéma Européen (ACE), Commission du Film d’Ile-de-France; Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM) and the Portuguese Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimédia (ICAM).

Programme

Monday 25 – Príncipe Cinemas

• 10h00 L’autre motié du ciel, by Kalthoum Bornaz (Tunisia)
• 12h30 - Presentation of the Catalogue of Andalusian Audiovisual Works.
  Ne restent dans l’Oued que ses galets, de Jean-Pierre Lledó (Algeria-France)
• 15h30 Three projects:
  Les larmes d’argent, by Mourad Boucif (Morocco-Belgium)
  Mascarades, by Lys Salem (France-Algeria)
  Entre parenthèses, by Hicham Falah and Mohamed Chrif Tribak (Morocco)
• 16h45 Vivantes, by Said Ould Khelifa (Algeria-France)
• 18h30 Exchange of dialogue between African, European and Latin American filmmakers and professionals: specific initiatives to improve film circulation.

Details of the selected movies will be available on the Festival web page (www.sansebastianfestival.com) and interested professionals can contact the Festival Sales Office (salesoffice@sansebastianfestival.com), which is responsible for organising the individual meeting agenda.

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At a meeting held within the framework of the 54th San Sebastian International Film Festival corresponding to Cinema in Motion 2, the partners involved in the initiative have decided to support the following films and projects:

- The Moroccan project, “Entre parenthèses” by Hicham Falah and Mohamed Chrif-Tribak will receive technical advice supervised by Mikros Image with a view to helping the directors to choose the appropriate filming format.

- The Algerian project, “Mascarades” by Lyes Salem, will have its screenplay read by professional actors (to be decided upon with the director) at the next Amiens Film Festival (from 10th-19th November 2006).

- The Tunisian film “L’Autre moitié du ciel” by Khaltoum Bornaz will receive:

· Kinescoping (digital to 35 mm film transfer) offered by Swiss Effects and Kodak Suisse.
· €15,000 in services offered by the Mactari mixing auditorium in Paris. o
· French subtitling offered by Titra Film

- The Algerian film “Ne restent dans l’Oued que ses galets” by Jean-Pierre Lledo will receive:

· Kinescoping (digital to 35 mm film transfer) offered by Mikros Images, with the €15,000 in aid offered by the CNC (Centre National de la Cinématographie). These two awards are complementary to one another due to the exceptional length of the film.
· A 35 mm copy offered jointly by the Amiens and Fribourg Festivals, yet again due to the exceptional length of the film.
· A post-production service offered by the CCM (Centre Cinématographique Marocain), to be established jointly by the director and representatives of the CCM.

All of the selected filmmakers will have the opportunity to participate in the yearly Cinema in Motion tour of Argentina, Colombia and Mexico organised by the San Sebastian Festival and the African Cinema Festival of Tarifa.

San Sebastian, 26th September, 2006.

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Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires – Fundación Cinemateca Argentina
5-13 July 2006

Last year, the San Sebastian International Film Festival launched Cinema in Motion, a yearly professional rendezvous for filmmakers from the Maghreb and Portuguese-speaking African countries.

This initiative was created in collaboration with two European festivals: Amiens (France) and Fribourg (Switzerland), which have a long-standing tradition of contributing efficient aid to filmmakers from these countries and of forging new international paths for their projects.

The young African Cinema Festival of Tarifa joins Cinema in Movement with a travelling yearly programme endeavouring to contribute to the regular circulation in South America and Spain of films from the Maghreb and Portuguese-speaking African countries.

The programme will consist of films by directors of projects presented in Cinema in Motion at the San Sebastian Festival.

The screenings at the Bogota, Mexico and Buenos Aires film archives will be attended by selected African filmmakers and professionals from the sector in each capital, with the intention of facilitating contacts and making known in these countries a kind of cinema virtually non-existent in commercial film theatres.

The aim of these efforts is to make film lovers, critics and professionals familiar with the work and names of the directors participating in Cinema in Motion, while they wait to conclude new projects, by laying the way for distributors to take up the initiative in the best of conditions.

The African Cinema Festival is moreover preparing a digital catalogue of African films subtitled in Spanish for non-commercial distribution throughout Spain.

San Sebastian International Film Festival
African Cinema Festival of Tarifa
present

CINEMA IN MOTION

Seven filmmakers from Algeria, Morocco, Mozambique and Tunisia in South America

• Daoud Aoulad-Syad - TARFAYA (Morocco – France, 2004)
• Yamina Bachir Chouikh – RACHIDA (Algeria – France, 2002)
• Abdelkrim Bahloul - LE SOLEIL ASSASSINÉ (Algeria - France – Belgium, 2003)
• Abdellatif Ben Ammar - LE CHANT DE LA NORIA (Tunisia – France, 2002)
• Faouzi Bensaidi - MILLE MOIS (Morocco - France – Belgium, 2003)
• Sol de Carvalho (Mozambique) - QUANDO O MAR BATE NA ROCHA (2002) – CONTOS TRADICIONAIS (2002) - A HERANÇA DA VIUVA (2000)
• Jilani Saadi - KHORMA LE CRIEUR DE NOUVELLES (Tunisia – France – Belgium, (2002)

More information about the films (pdf)

Filmoteca de la UNAM, México
1-9 June 2006
www.unam.mx/filmoteca/Revuel/revuel.htm

Cinemateca Distrital de Bogotá
21-24 June 2006
www.cinematecadistrital.gov.co

Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires
5-13 July 2006
www.teatrosanmartin.com.ar

Contacts:

• Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián
  salesoffice@sansebastianfestival.com
  www.sansebastianfestival.com
• Muestra de Cine Africano de Tarifa
  direccion@mca-t.org
  www.mca-t.org

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The San Sebastian International Film Festival is launching Cinema in Movement, a new yearly professional rendezvous intended for filmmakers from the Maghreb and Portuguese-speaking African countries, in collaboration with two European festivals, Amiens (France) and Fribourg (Switzerland), which, with their tradition of effectively helping the filmmakers from these countries, will offer their projects new international perspectives.

The result of a reflection started two years ago with filmmakers and professionals from these countries, Cinema in Motion implies continuity of the Open Door to the Maghreb season proposed by the Festival in 2003, highly acclaimed by critics and public alike, while including the spirit driving Films in Progress for the last four years as an instrument serving independent Latin American cinema.

The incorporation of professionals and institutions from Portugal and Brazil, directly involved in the films produced by Latin countries in Africa, which already have direct artistic and industrial relations with the Maghreb, will open specific new horizons for this rendezvous.

The Festival’s intention with Cinema in Motion is to explore new ways of helping to complete unfinished projects and films while serving as an effective meeting place for professionals, companies and institutions from these African countries, Europe and Latin America.

Cinema in Motion proposes a programme of unfinished projects and films from Algeria, Morocco, Mozambique and Tunisia, screening them for professionals from the different links in the chain leading cinema to the public.

Cinema in Motion would also like to thank the invaluable backing of the following entities: Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI), TV5, IledeFrance Film Commission, Swiss Effects, Kodak Suisse, Fundación Audiovisual de Andalucía, Ateliers du Cinéma Européen (ACE) and the Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimédia (ICAM).

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Cinema in Motion will propose, on Monday, 19 September 2005, eight unfinished projects and films from Algeria, Morocco, Mozambique and Tunisia, screening them for professionals from the different links in the chain leading cinema to the public.

Programme

• 11h30 – Three-way dialogue between African, European and Latin American filmmakers and professionals on the subject of specific experiences in the field.
  
  
• 13h30 – Welcome lunch offered by the Director of the Festival and by the IledeFranceFilm Commission.
  
  
• 15h30
  L’Andalou, by Abdelkrim Bahloul (Algeria) – Project
  Mariage du loup, by Jillani Saadi (Tunisia) – Post-production
  
  
• 16h30
  Fanon, de Abdelkrim Bahloul (Argelia) – Proyecto
  WWW – What a Wonderful World, by Faouzi Bensaidi (Morocco) – Filming/post-production
  
  
• 17h30
  Mabrouk s’en va t’en guerre, by Abdellatif Ben Ammar (Tunisia) - Project
  Jardim do outro homem, by Sol de Carvalho (Mozambique) - Filming/post-production
  
  
• 18h30
  Fi Intidar Pasolini, by Daoud Aoulad Syad (Morocco) - Project
  Kamikaze, by Nouri Bouzid (Tunisia) – Post-production

Contact:

• salesoffice@sansebastianfestival.com
• www.sansebastianfestival.com

Programme of the meeting of September 19th– 11h30

• Introduction
  Alberto García Ferrer
  Cultural and Communication Area, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI)
  
• Movie Library of Tangier as a visibility tool for independent Cinema.
  Yto Barrada,
  Responsable, Cinémathèque de Tanger
  
• Ile de France supports Independent Cinema.
  Corinne Rufet
  President, Commission du Film d’Île-de-France
  
• The new association of filmmakers Maghreb Films
  Mohamed Chouikh
  Filmmaker
  
• Proimages in movement: Maghrebi Cinema in Colombia and viceversa
  Claudia Triana de Vargas
  Manager, Proimágenes en Movimiento
  
• Regular circulation of Maghrebi films in Andalusia, Presentation of the Andalusian Audiovisual Guide
  May Silva
  Manager, Fundación Audiovisual de Andalucía
  
• Distribution of films in Algeria
  Mohamed Latrèche
  Distributor, SORA Productions
  
• Presentation of the first edition of the Cabo Verde
  Cristina Matos Silva
  Press Consultant, Instituto do Cinema Audiovisual e Multimedia (ICAM)
  
• Presentation of the Institut Europeo de la Mediterrania activities
  Josep Giralt
  Director of cultural activities, Institut Europeu de la Mediterrania
  
• The Moroccan Cinematographic Centre at the service of a South-South coproduction strategy.
  Mohammed Bakrim
  Area Chief of promotion and cooperation, CCM
  
• Ruy Guerra, director, Bruno Stroppiania, producer
  

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• Swiss Effects, Kodak Switzerland and the Fribourg International Film Festival grant an award to the film Mariage du loup, by Jilani Saadi (Tunisia)
  
  
• The French Centre National du Cinéma, the Amiens International Film Festival and the Parisian company Mactari grant an award to the film O jardim do outro homem, by Sol d’Ameida (Mozambique).
  
  
• The Centre Cinématographique Marocain commits itself to the project L’Andalou, by Mohamed Chouikh (Algiers).

• “Mariage du Loup”, by Jilani SAADI

We were moved by the symbolic dimension of a story which takes place in a single night for its cinematographic quality and especially for the relevance of the editing and the image work.
The support consists of the transfer of the film to Kinescope by Swiss Effects, with negative delivered by Kodak Suisse and a copy paid for by the Fribourg International Film Festival.

San Sebastian, 20 September 2005

Award presented by Jacqueline ADA (CNC) and Thierry LENOUVEL (Cine Sud Promotion)

Aid from CNC to complete the film:

In the framework of the 1st edition of “Cinema in Motion” organized by the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival in collaboration with the International Film Festival of Amiens and Fribourg, a CNC grant has been awarded to complete the film.

15,000 euros in financial aid awarded by the French Centre Nationale de la Cinématographie goes to the film:

• “O jardín do Outro Homen”, by Sol de Carvalho (Mozambique)

This aid is aimed at the post-production process to be carried out in France. In addition, the Paris-based company Mactari will grant a 15,000-euro loan to the Mozambican film for post-production.

Lastly, the International Film Festival of Amiens will provide a copy of the film in 35 mm.

San Sebastian, 20 September 2005

The Centre Cinématographique Marocain, represented at San Sebastian by Mohamed Bakrim, Head of the Promotion and Cooperation Department, officially communicated the agreement, in principle, for participation of the CCM in L’ANDALOU, a project presented as part of Cinema in Motion by Algerian director Mohamed Choikh.

The CCM will hold discussions at the appropriate time with Mohamed Chouikh regarding the way in which this contribution (in principle intended for the post-production stage) will function.

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