Fatwa - Cinéma Arabe

Brahim Nadhour (Ahmed Hafiene) flies from his hometown Paris to Tunesia for a sad reason: he has come to bury his son Marouane, who died in a motorcycle accident. Against the will of his ex-wife Loubna (Ghalia Benali) he decides to involve the mosque in the ceremony. He cannot help but notice how much the character of the religious community has changed in the meantime; he is all the more surprised to find out that Marouane, who had a secular upbringing, had become a regular attender at the mosque before his death. Realizing how little he knows about his son, Brahim starts to investigate. A series of dark discoveries turn the film into an unembellished but blood-curdling detective.

Take note: after the screening of May 10 director Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud will do a Q&A, followed by a panel debate on the current topic: The power of identity.
Within our festival theme Cinema Society, filmmakers discuss matters of identity and the place that the topic has in the political and social debate of the 21 st century. Your work, your passport, your political choices. Your country of birth, your faith, your memories, the language of your dreams, the color of your skin. What is it that determines who you are? And which pitfalls are there?

Tue 7 May with short-film:
Nefta Football Club
Yves Piat | France, Tunisia | 2018 | komedie| 17 min. | Arabic spoken – English subtitles
In the rare moments that they are not playing soccer, brothers Abdallah and Mohammed race their moped over the hills surrounding Nefta. One day they come across a wandering donkey, strangely wearing headphones on his ears. What’s even more remarkable is the load he carries on his back.

Fr 10 May with short-film:
Yousef
Mohamed Hossameldin | Italy 2018 | drama | 14 min. | Italian, French spoken – English subtitles
After a long procedure Yousef, a successful chef who grew up in Italy as the child of immigrants, is granted the Italian nationality. But what does it mean to be a dark-skinned Italian after the racist attack in Macerata? The subjective soundtrack and montage shape Yousef’s identity crisis.