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is the time to dance history where we could do it if we fail it's as failing but it still needs a lot of energy. making films against all the roofs creating images that have never existed before highlighting problems that's what filmmaking is about for many young people we've met a lot of them over the years in the talents program which always takes place at the same time as the bun in international film festival bringing together over 200 up and coming filmmakers from in live little while. and we caught up with 4 of them to get into the. high shows coca from sudan. constantine
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and christopher from germany and lebanon. andrew bennett host sang from the dash. sounds he wants to make films but his people. we met him in berlin in february when it was freezing cold. he was visiting friends i'm taking a break from the stress of. data ship you can never be your true self so you never know what your identity is so i feel like for us to become really who we are as a people we need this freedom we need this space and we need to be able to play and i feel like our culture. is that space for us to play to try to understand who we are and to show it to ourselves when we 1st met in 2016 it was
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living in the middle of a war zone in the nuba mountains in south sudan he participated in the balun on a tolerance program after making the award winning documentary beats of the antonov . and it's a film about music. you learned about the war using music so within that i concentrate on music and daily life and concentrate on people. who can move to the nuba mountains and 2012 as a war raged between the government and ethnic groups fighting for independence and the right to that own cultural identity. it was a war for resources self-determination and over the role of religion.
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you scared like you naturally scared everybody around you scared everybody's running into foxholes there's a moment when you come out that you want to make sure everybody's ok there is that moment of fear but as soon as you know that everybody is ok then there's that moment of extreme happiness to. go documentary ordinance award at the 2014 toronto film festival before moving to the nuba mountains he had lived in new york but he gave up his secure existence to support his people so i was having in brooklyn i had my fixie bike that i love and it's an easy life is these fun is very creative but my work there doesn't matter while the simple thing of being in a war zone just my presence makes a difference. there's a war chronicle or organized theater workshops and set up an artists' collective in
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2018 he made his 1st fiction film an antiwar comedy. it's about a soldier and his girlfriend lena after they spend the night together at 9 gets into trouble when lena becomes jealous when someone leaves for. you know whether. or not. directing shopper film with a small team area without running water or electricity it premiered at the 2018 venice film festival when we 1st started making the film it was a film that we were making for ourselves we felt we need we real we had that need for coming together and celebrating and this is what i discovered from my 1st
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documentary be so that enough so with we wanted to create a film that had the backdrop of war but still had enough humor lie and what not and questioning of revolution and what he means that it means a lot to us and it was amazing that the film actually also ended up in huge festivals and went around. mad constantine voc and christopher our own when they participated in the $29.00 team belinelli talents program that weren't together on the international coproduction half an hour constantine boxcars editor and crist of our own as cinematographer. puts the spotlight on people fighting for their survival for children in the slums of beirut like 12 year old zane. it was the moment when you realize that the fiction that we're doing that the reality is surpassing the fiction that we're doing and that made everyone realize
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how important this fictionalized version that we're creating here is and that these topics do need to be talked about children without a childhood. you would see those goods on the streets everywhere you would see families also between lanes and on the highway you're just just ignore them you just treat them like their moods or. ghosts that don't exist but they're everywhere . non-professional actors were plucked from the streets and much of the film was shot from them perspective. it was not so much the story. but the roar direct and truthful way of telling the story that made the film so exceptional in 2018 it won the jury prize at the cannes film festival and in 2019 it was nominated for an oscar. it's easy to blame people but it's much harder to understand why they act the way that they act what is wrong with the system that makes them act this way how were they brought up. we
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caught up with them again this year but not together. cover now may not have won the past foreign film oscar 2 years ago but the nomination propelled back arrears forward and crist of our own won the german cinematography award constantine bock is currently in beirut conducting research while christopher is on flight of ventura they were both invited to join the academy of motion picture arts and sciences after the oscar nomination that the whole experience in l.a. for us was a door opener even beyond the academy what it meant 1st and foremost and this is very important to us there to get a foot in the door is that we signed with an amazing agency there and they set up a lot of meetings and they really encouraged us to take that step and especially for you chris i get scripts. from across the world at the moment.
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which is what they would have been looking for last summer he was the cinematographer for the international coproduction a man who sold his skin tunisia's submitted it as its entry for the best foreign film oscar and it made the shortlist of dean films. that this is a love story that begins in syria some early is in love with a beer i'm out of town on earth just as i look at why it's so difficult with a heavy. color and how they are bought and then britney secular. what did you was up by is a way left that sounds naive calling for revolution will be his undoing the police will hunting down causing cancer free internet or not while i'm here stays behind
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marries a diplomat and moves to belgium will sam ever see her again. an artist offers a promising solution and sam becomes a living canvas. my soul. i want your back and. show them are a lot of value on. with you is the perfect result she was sorry earlier some of. the dark and i like the idea of turning a body. and what it means to that person. to become abusive and that's going to just blew me away. with my legs. boring you know real. biting satire. and travel around the world. in the good ole all. this work of.
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the signature of the day or the. we had that idea of having it. look like a bathing and never be like a gallery or museum you walking on to and looking at those different pieces of art so the so the idea was to see in the front. like yourself. that it was to. so we created those scenes. from each other but also all of them connected and i was scared. that my biggest shooting this movie was that at the end it turns out like a music video because it's all. because of looking at different. deceitful art world stage to know visually lush fashion the critically acclaimed film celebrated its premiere at the venice film festival it also stars monica
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bellucci as the cynical gallery. scuse me. this part of the expression the reason for it is i almost feel like you guys were sort of like subconsciously inspired by the artist that in real life even though why are he tattooed a real guy the work is called him he he turned this human being into a piece of art which inspired to write the script and i feel like yeah that twisted innocence as in still in how you guys translated that you know with your visual beauty and the wickedness of the script. while crist of our own was busy shooting a coproduction in the summer of 2020 constantine bach was in beirut on august the 4th 2020 the same day that 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in the pot. he witnessed the nightmare up close.
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and then this mushroom appeared out of nowhere and it took a few seconds before the shock wave it out but. you know i think the scariest thing was not knowing what was going on as to what the what does this mean for the war or someone attacking more of what was happening were just so poor thing didn't realize what was going on. months later and it's still unclear who is to blame for this horrific catastrophe but many blame the politicians and have lost faith in the state. case of the old.
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young people in particular don't see a future in beirut or lebanon 90 more constantine back and to take the video of his musician friends i think of the structure really goes beyond the physical destruction and really destroyed something and people and. our friends our family in their hearts and souls and that the structure is much much harder to fix if it's even possible than the physical the structure of. constantine bank wants. to process the images he's interrupted research on a project and together with the lebanese woman who is developing the script for botox beirut a dark satire takes aim at the widespread corruption in the country it's a film from the fashion scene that tries to highlight the corruption and nepotism
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behind the beautiful veneer financial support but the development of the screenplay has already been approved in germany. constantine bank plans to shoot in beirut in 2 years. if we want to help in any way by telling stories from here and it's also making a film here and employing our friends in the film industry and i have you know bringing there's so much telling here so the best thing we can do is make something . there it's remarkable. and there carry that on
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a whore economy made in bangladesh tells the story of shima a seamstress working in a factory an accident or crafts. a colleague dies and shima realizes how defenseless the workers are. not to much rather than outdoors and on the few others ever to get a muslim government installed the result is always the biggest selling. point then getting hungry about some kind of educating it is not a guy cancer is a magazine. only the women can help themselves you know quite a bit about the luggage on the net social justice and a bit of color in the truth about things and he said i want to act mushy with. this thought provoking statement by the activist saying same and fuels she was angered she decides to form a union it's based on
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a true story that of seamstresses dalia director ruby at hussein matter while researching the textile industry when i met her she immediately expressed an interest and i am also tell her life story is also a chimera. that leaving more when you're 12 and coming to the city already says something about this young woman if she wanted to feed it you know she will fight and that's what i've been really attracted me to part that i was like wow you know she has that spirit something very special about her when i was writing the dr who are a lot and of course the planet squared we shared her she was in the rehearsal with our actors she daughter actors love to operate the saw in the seams that we keep hearing all of us became friends even the actors and danielle and so we all wanted to tell the story to get there that point as
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a film dalia convinced rockers to form a union if we don't know why it is that it gives an artist. is either going to. effect a the what the met on a lot of other 11 tavern up and i'm coming up. this is going to. you know they were going to. i. was there when things got difficult look people say it was a very challenging boss finding out. that when we lost the legality is that her friends turn into her enemies because then they're like no i don't want to lose my job because it's atrophied my granted my children it's really important to have these shops ups everything these women news young women are very much aware of their right but maybe a lot of their do not have it in their to fight to in the end. you know the severe
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leader. who buy into a saying spent 2 years researching before filming in bangladesh she likes working with women both in front of the camera and behind it the director also spends time in the us but how work focuses on her home country she works with n.g.o.s meets one chance for women and trains female directors she's also creating an initiative to prevent domestic violence by had hussein's film premiered at the toronto film festival and was shown in locarno one of the that what i want to talk about and oh i want to thank god. i got it. thanks to a young woman's courage the fast garment workers union was founded and registered against the odds so i think it's happened in
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a women's way this way because it's happening. all. happened because. activists. back to director coca his comedy a cache of has fun with cliches is that. something a really wanted to make sure is to show the. idea of war and how ludicrous what is . so unusual in it so now i live in a number of. the litman no good i live now and grace through 5 men and women of yes and there's a hope for the love that they look on over and i wanted to make sure that we don't just keep having this heroic idea of war and war is this amazing thing and to become a man and become. hero and do you know you can go to war so say i wanted to destroy that but at the same time i wanted to add make it sure that the cause is real so so
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that balance of the bar fighting for real rights and all that at the same time fighting is a really dumb crazy thing that hopefully wars will stop so i wanted all that to be played with. shoots during the rainy season when the fighting stops residents of the nuba mountain villages take part in the filming. and i think. there's a happy ending at 9 remorsefully returns to lena but he has to learn that women are much stronger than he thought. i'm set up now so when i get a. lebanese
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cinematographer christopher has enjoyed working with women on films like the satirical drama the man who saw his skin it was a big success for him thanks to an intensive collaboration with writer director cal for ben honey from tunisia 2021 the film one that christopher another nomination for the german cinema tom graffiti prime's. i deserve the feeling that they want to go. no question. and they want to get to that answer and do something. that got to me in the way they approached and i just feel like being that i think for. right now he's on the island of white of in tora his latest film copilot will premiere at the burn international film festival he and director under sort of better shape are preparing it's very atmospheric but it could be anything.
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the film portrays a love story between 2 students as lee and saeed when saeed suddenly disappears his family comes after astley but the 2 have sworn to keep their secrets he's told me. when i was the best by sight him and i was i don't live here you know how i don't know in my films. and cameramen yorkies he's kind of dancing with the actors kind of and they need to work together very. this is. this is. not over the hill it's been here. i know you can't trust the sense of claustrophobia like in a small stage play if you don't need to. as this 4 by is finished my phenomenal.
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can here is played be here. with ideas like. that. as they prepare for the film's world premiere christopher are noon and and are sore about a shay are choosing press photos. meanwhile in berlin kooker is recovering from a stressful time in sudan a lot has changed that the civil war has eased but it's a fragile peace destruction as nick tensions and high levels of corruption a slowing development efforts for years the filmmakers supported the revolution taking to the streets among thousands of others since 2018 there's been an apparent break in the fighting but there's still no calm in sudan the country remains torn apart it's exhausting and not just for. his hopes of
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a new beginning have been dashed. at the end of last year he was arrested because of a theatre workshop in which women took part that displays the religiously minded police . it took an outcry from international filmmakers to get her released from prison. on the steps of getting into real peace but we're struggling with new things new things we're struggling with a technocrat government that can't really deal with running the government alongside this military and the national security and the remainder of the old regime with all mentality with the old mind shift. so now we're we're set we're like we could do it it is that is the time incidents history where we could do it if we fail it's us failing but it still needs a lot of energy to go forward i shows koka isn't giving up he's planning
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