JCC 2021 / Official Competition / Documentary Short Film
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- DirectorTeboho EdkinsDemonstrates how cattle are constitutive for the entirety of social life in Lesotho, a small state in the middle of South Africa. The film was shot in a prison where cattle thieves are imprisoned. For every cow stolen, they face one year in prison.Tanit d’or
- DirectorMajid Al-RemaihiStarsMajid Al-RemaihiTala KaddouraRehana KhanFilmed on an abandoned fishermen village of Northern Qatar, 'And Then They Burn the Sea' is an ode to the filmmaker's living mother whose memories abruptly left her during the making of the film. Al-Remaihi ruminates on an experience of familial loss of that which cannot be defined but is deeply felt by pairing existing family archives with reenacted dreams. Weaving a myriad of poetry, folk history, and personal archives, the film mirrors a history of maternal mourning rituals that lament their loved ones who may never be returned by the sea. Created in DFI's Short Documentary Lab with Rithy Panh.Tanir d’argent
- DirectorShaima Al TamimiStarsSaeeda Al-TamimiSaleh Al-TamimiShaima Al TamimiA heartfelt introspective letter to the deceased grandfather and questions the continuous pattern of movement amongst Yemenis in diaspora.Tanit de bronze
- DirectorSouad DouibiStarsAli DamicheBased on a sound experience that takes place in the streets of Algiers.
- DirectorMaher HasnaouiIn 2010, after the state crisis in Ivory Coast, Hervé decides to leave his country. Once he arrives in Tunisia, he must face a reality he never imagined and dreaming of a better life becomes his daily challenge.
- DirectorBaya MedhaffarPrayer doing nothing to their perdition, the traveler and his shadow make their way at the crossroads of images and voices encountered on the road that form and deform as they advance. So many apparitions that are each an opportunity to stop for a while, to take a look or to listen.
- DirectorNicolas KhouryOn August 4, a large explosion shakes Beirut. All human life disappears. A woman inhabits the city. Shot in the wake of the Beirut-port explosion in 2020, the film starts from a letter that American-Syrian poet Etel Adnan wrote almost three decades earlier, in 1992, after the Lebanon civil war.
- DirectorAmanou YeleboElsa, a woman committed to defending the rights of women, she takes the film director into her world, where we realize that there are thousands and thousands of women who have once suffered some kind of injustice. Whether sexual, moral or bodily, injustice or violence against women remains a scourge to be fought. Through testimonies, Elsa exposes the causes, issues the problems and proposes solutions to solve this scourge, by proving that a woman, even raped, has the same rights as other women.
- DirectorArthur Kolie CécéStarsTiguidanke DialloTiguidanké Diallo, in her thirties, is a young undocumented Guinean woman who has lived in Belgium since 2012. Arrested a few months after her arrival by the police, she was locked up in a closed center with a view to being expelled from Belgian territory to his home country. After four months of detention, she is free.