Arab Film Festival Sydney 2011
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Fenella Kernebone visits the Arab Film Festival, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Sydney before touring Australia throughout July.
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Arab Film Festival Australia
The Arab Film Festival has been around since 2001, and is now a major event on Sydney’s screen cultural calendar. We aim to showcase stories from diverse Arabic speaking cultures to all Australian audiences that reflect the complexity and diversity of Arab experiences. We aim to address the (mis)representations of Arab culture through film by providing critical spaces and giving exposure to alternative representations of Arab culture, Arab commentary and self-representation. The Arab Film Festival Australia (www.arabfilmfestival.com.au) is looking for home movies from Arab Australians from the 40's, 50's, 60's & 70's that were shot on film of some kind (16mm, Super 8 etc).
This is a propitious time to be running an Australian festival devoted to Arab cinema. Not only have two relatively new, well-funded festivals in the neighbouring emirates of Dubai and Abu Dhabi given a shot in the arm to the region’s filmmakers, but the region is undergoing the kind of social and political turmoil that can only nourish dramatic storytelling. Its filmmakers are not just making calling card films to land themselves a gig in Hollywood, as so often occurs in the West, but have local stories they are burning to tell. Thanks to the recent people’s revolts that began in Tunisia and spread across the Arab world, 2011 has been one of those landmark years in contemporary history to compare to 1989 (the collapse of the Iron Curtain) and 1968 (youth revolts in the west, uprising in Czechoslavakia). And it’s not over yet.
Arab Film Festival preview - SBS Films
by GREG KING “Arab stories are different,” states Fadia Abboud, the co-director of the Arab Film Festival, who is speaking from her office in Sydney. “They come from the Arab world, but they are also about Arabs in the diaspora, because we’re here and we’re making films as well. Our perspective very rarely gets seen on Australian screens, so it’s very important for us to include those in our festival.”
Greg King's Film Reviews » 2011 ARAB FILM FESTIVAL – interview with Festival co-director Fadia Abboud
First published on . Updated on 1 Aug 2011. The stories, culture and heritage of Arab people worldwide will be celebrated with a collection of local and international shorts, documentaries and features at the Arab Film Festival. "We've got a range of different styles of films," explains festival co-director Fadia Abboud.
Arab Film Festival - Riverside Theatres - Film - Time Out Sydney
This is a propitious time to be running an Australian festival devoted to Arab cinema. Not only have two relatively new, well-funded festivals in the neighbouring emirates of Dubai and Abu Dhabi given a shot in the arm to the region’s filmmakers, but the region is undergoing the kind of social and political turmoil that can only nourish dramatic storytelling. Its filmmakers are not just making calling card films to land themselves a gig in Hollywood, as so often occurs in the West, but have local stories they are burning to tell...
SBS Films - Arab Film Festival 2011
The festival featured local and international films made by Arabic-speaking filmmakers from a range of backgrounds, reflecting the diversity of identities and experiences within the Arab world and communities within the diaspora. The Arab Film Festival Australia aims to: showcase stories from diverse Arabic-speaking cultures to broad Australian audiences that reflect the complexity and diversity of Arab communities and experiences (including demystifying the concept that ‘Arab’ means the same as ‘Muslim’) address the (mis)representations of Arab culture through film by providing critical spaces to dialogue - by presenting alternative representations of Arab cultures, subjects and narratives; and by supporting the development and presentation of new screen-based work by Arab-Australians
Arab Film Festival Australia
Celebrating the filmmakers who don't give up
When he wanted to make his controversial film about present-day Cairo, the director Sameh Abdel Aziz needed to be creative about obtaining a film permit from censorious authorities. ''I had to call on favours from many, many friends in the film industry, directors and producers who gave me their permits to film [including] under the guise of shooting a commercial for a laundry detergent,'' he says. The Cry of an Ant , which will open this year's Arab Film Festival, is billed as the first film to respond to the Egyptian revolution that led to the ousting in February of its president, Hosni Mubarak, after 30 years.
Arab films will continue pushing limits
Arab Film Festival co-director Fadia Abboud says the world is going to see more groundbreaking Arab movies in the coming years as filmmakers push against taboo topics and censorship. One of the big success stories of the Sydney Film Festival was the Egyptian feature Cairo 678, which was awarded a special mention in the official competition for its courage in tackling sexual harassment. But Abboud said this is just the beginning. "The Arab world is still going to be making groundbreaking films like that as they push their own boundaries with censorship laws and taboo cultural subjects like homosexuality," she said.