[spectre] The courage and the heart / Lebanon Tripoli International Film Festival 2013

[Louise Desrenards]

Cultural Resistance presents the first edition of the Tripoli
International Film Festival Lebanon #2013. Emergent documentaries,
fictions, scars of history, the cty of women, Henri Barakat cycle plus
dedicated events

 to Middle-East, Asia, East-Asia and India
Dedicated to women


Dancing against war -- dancing stronger than war

Beyrouth Tripoli

the widest movie theater of Tripoli opening

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===> First action : Tripoli International Film


The Association Cultural Resistance started the Tripoli International
Film Festival of a need to act. It is an instinct to survive, to
resist through culture, literature, music and highlighting woman’s
impact in society.

For the first time a film festival in Lebanon has been able to
assemble different players from each country, particularly from
universities and institutions (Embassies, Ministries, Institutes) from
both Asia and Europe.

It has been supported by a remarkable national and international
solidarity, in the dramatic context of what the city of Tripoli is
experiencing, as much as the entire country.


====> Second action : Niemeyer Contest : Competition


Lebanon counts two uncompleted monuments. Baalbek which dates back to
Roman times, and the  Niemeyer City constructed by the celebrated
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in the 70′s and was interrupted by
the Lebanese civil war.

An international competition of films will be launched based on the
architectural complex constructed by Niemeyer and which still carries
the name of Tripoli’s Rachid Karame Fair..

The competition will be announced at the opening ceremony of the
Festival, and on internet. It will offer each candidate the
possibility of making a film which should capture the spirit of the
city built by Oscar Niemeyer in Tripoli in the context of world
architecture. The duration of each film can be from one minute to one
hour and twenty minutes. The format is open: documentary, fiction,
animation, photographic creation, video-art, installation, etc….

The aim of this open call is to bring this monument back to life and
which can help to launch a big Art Biennale, thus placing the city of
Tripoli, thousands of years old, on the map of cities dedicated to art
and culture.

The winning ilms, will be screened on internet and will be presented
the site itself of the the city of Niemeyer in Tripoli, during the
second Tripoli International Film Festival.



===> Guest honor of the festival : Aruna Vasudev (India)

In the presence of Aruna Vasudev, guest of honor of the festival, who
will present the Life Achievement Award, price Aruna Vasudev.

Cultural Resistance deliberately chose challenging conventions this
year to celebrate the centenary of Indian cinema. If usually the old
traditional films and Bollywood are honored, the festival has chosen
to focus on the younger generation advanced with two exceptional films
: the first is Ship of Thesus directed by Anand Gandhi, a thirty years
old stage director and writer. Already famous throughout India for his
screenplays for television series and the price he received, he signs
here a wonderful film that tells a long story in the manner of 1001
Nights, but deals with a subject of a burning issue : using the theme
of organ transplantation to question the metaphysical relationship
that we have with our body, he wondered about the human being and its
difference with others. If I see the world with other eyes than mine,
am I still the same person ?
I met Anand Gandhi as he spoke of his film. For him, thinking about
this is a tribute to the ship of Theseus, this thought experiment
that, from Antiquity to Leibniz, question the problem of the Same and
the Other, identity and persistence over time. Maintenance of the ship
of Theseus implies that it changes in some parts, and if it provokes a
change of identity, does it remain the same boat? Treated to Eastern,
well structured, this film offers us the opportunity of an unusual
reflection which should be continued.

Salma is the film of a woman, Kim Longinotto, which tells the
extraordinary story of a greatest poet of South India, locked for
twenty- five to be born a woman. Reaching with the complicity of the
jailer to get her texts on pieces of toilet paper or paper bags, she
could send her poetry through the world. Without keeping any hatred
against traditions which locked her, she finds a way to be free by the
words of poetry. This documentary, treated as a fiction, is an
important document to understand, through this fervent activist and
campaigner for women’s rights and education who was Salma, how it is
useless to resist by violence : culture has its price. We would have
liked Kim Longinotto with us, but the festival has been sponsored with
very few resources, and was an act of resistance when the war
threatened the region and the country, so it was difficult to make
everyone come. Directors’ solidarity was there, but the funds to bring
them remained absent.

The evening dedicated to the centenary will be held on Saturday,
November 16 at the Metropolis in Beirut and Tripoli CityComplex at 8pm
.


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