in the European Year of INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE
Thursday 13 November
> PALAZZO DELLE ESPOSIZIONI
20:30 - OFFICIAL COMPETITION
Seh zan
3 Women
Director: Manijeh Hekmat
IRAN
2008, 35mm, colour, 94'
Vers: Persiano - Sub: Ita
[Actress Niki Karimi attending the screening]
Three women of three generations, grandmother, mother and daughter, who have lost their relationships, try to find their identities. These three women find out their common identities through their searches. Shall these three generations find each other to preserve their homeland?
20:00 - OFFICIAL COMPETITION
Eïd miled Laïla
Laila's Birthday
Director: Rashid Masharawi
PALESTINE, TUNISIA,
THE NETHERLANDS
2008, 35mm, colour, 71'
Vers: Palestinian - Sub: Ita
[Productor Habib Attia attending the screening]
Judge Abu Laila is forced to become a taxi driver when the government fires him. On the day of his daughter Laila's seventh birthday, his wife insists that he needs be home early with a present and a cake. Abu Laila has nothing else on his mind than completing this mission. But the daily life in Palestine is a bit chaotic and takes him in many other directions before he gets home...
18:00 - Turkish ballads | Tales of cities and borders
Havar
Director: Mehmet Güleryüz
TURKEY, 2008, 80'
[National premiére - Director Mehmet Güleryüz attending the screening]
Havar is a young woman who is rumoured to have gotten intimate with a young man. When these rumours reach her cousin who has been promised to marry her, he pressures Havar's father, provoking him to kill her. Havar is now the victim and her father, her executioner.
22:00 - Turkish ballads | Tales of cities and borders
Made in Europe
Director: İnan Temelkuran
TURKEY, 2007, 85'
[National premiére - Director İnan Temelkuran attending the screening]
As US troops enter Afghanistan, three groups of Turkish people are gathering in three European cities (Madrid, Paris, Berlin). Each group is a microcosm of Turkish society in Europe, where these individuals are seeking - or living without - residence permission after years of living like a ghost from one country to next.
Programme Palazzo delle Esposizioni | 13 November
> VILLA MEDICI
21:00 - OFFICIAL COMPETITION/EURIMAGES ITALIA AWARD
Las 13 rosas
13 Roses
Director: Emilio Martínez Lázaro
SPAIN
2007, 35mm, colour, 100'
Vers: Spanish - Sub: Ita
[Director Emilio Martínez-Lázaro and actor Adriano Giannini attending the screening]
On 1 April 1939, the Spanish Civil War ended when Franco's troops entered Madrid. Las 13 rosas tells the real-life story of thirteen of those who stayed and were wrongly detained, tried and executed for their part in a rumoured plot to assassinate Franco.
Programme Villa Medici | 13 November
> TEATRO DEI DIOSCURI
20:00 - TRIBUTE TO FOLCO QUILICI
Un'isola nel tempo - Incontro con Sebastiano Tusa
Director: Folco Quilici
ITALY, 2008, 47'
[Director Folco Quilici attending the screening]
A walk around the historical places of Pantelleria (the island between Sicily and North Africa) with director Folco Quilici and professor Sebastiano Tusa, where the most recent archaeological excavations carried out.
21:30 - TRIBUTE TO DOC OPEN EYES JURY
A tribute to Open Eyes Jury: photographer Letizia Battaglia and video artist Tarin Gartner.
End of Story is a collection of photos, silences, humiliating testimonies, looks, documents. An untenable reality into the streets of Palermo.
Only Here and on the Moon is an intimate reportage about the work of three Italian correspondents in Israel and in the Palestinian territories.
Fine della Storia
Director: Letizia Battaglia
ITALY, 2007, 15'
[Director Letizia Battaglia attending the screening]
Solo qui e sulla luna
Director: Tarin Gartner
ITALY, 2008, 24'
[Director Tarin Gartner attending the screening]
Programme Teatro dei Dioscuri | 13 November
