'La dernière carte'

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Rail 7: Studio 5 Movies

Sylvain Biegeleisen - ISR - 2008 - documentary- colour - 77' - FV - STT EN

Powerful, moving Israeli documentary by Sylvain Biegeleisen about his painful and complex relationship with his 87-year-old mother. The son has suffered a life of silence and unanswered questions in the family. Will his mother sooth these anxieties deeply rooted in the Second World War and survivors’ guilt? She finally agrees to talk o him in the Antwerp apartment where she lives. An unflinching portrait of an unforgettable woman.

*25.11.08 (in presence of director Sylvain Biegeleisen) 

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Bamako

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Abderrahmane Sissako - Mali / USA / FR - 2006 - fiction - color - 115' - OV - STT FR / NL

Malian director Abderrahmane Sissako, who made the meditative “Waiting for Happiness”, directs a highly original, deeply resonant film. In an inner courtyard in the capital of Mali, Bamako, an alfresco tribunal of African civil society – the witnesses - takes on the international financial institutions – the defendants. The hearings are broadcast around town via loudspeakers. And yet Sissako avoids any didacticism by bringing in the private lives and problems of various neighbours, producing a deeply humane and vividly pedagogical tale.

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'Le sel de la mer'

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Annemarie Jacir - Palestine / B / FR - 2008 - fiction - color - 109' - OV - STT FR

Soraya was born and grew up in Brooklyn, where her family found refuge after leaving Palestine in 1948, date of the creation of the state of Israel. Returning to her ancestral land, she attempts to withdraw her grandparents savings from a frozen bank account. She also meets a young Palestinian who dreams of escape. Filmed somewhere between past and present, the film by Palestinian woman director Annemarie Jacir evokes the wounds, frustrations and hopes of a society facing an uncertain future.

With: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri

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