Documentary shorts - 2
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Multi-Screening:
Flox | Documentary - short length | 40 minutes / 2019 | Director: Hady Mahmoud | Country: Egypt
Mundele | Documentary - short length | 10 minutes / 2019 | Director: Matamba Kombila | Country: Gabon
My Grandpa is a Troublemaker | Documentary - short length | 9 minutes / 2020 | Director: Menna Elbezawy | Country: Egypt
Film(s) To Be Screened
Flox
Flox | Documentary - short length | 40 minutes / 2019 | Director: Hady Mahmoud | Country: Egypt | Inspired by everyday struggle of Micro-bus drivers in Cairo, Flox, the title of the film and the name of the micro-bus as pronounced by Its drivers, is an observational documentary that looks at the intricate interplay between class and gender. Specifically, it explores how micro-bus drivers perceive and negotiate their masculinity in a mega-city like Cairo, For them, driving a difficult vehicle, handling inter-group conflict, struggling with poverty, surviving with substance abuse only made them to wish not to foresee their children inheriting the same job. The film is about the beauty as well as the dark side of the chaotic life of the urban poor, who are forced to create a state within a state in order to live.
Mundele
Mundele | Documentary - short length | 10 minutes / 2019 | Director: Matamba Kombila | Country: Gabon | In Mundele, the identity interrogations of the author of Gabonese and French origins that stages herself, a reflection of the perception of those around her, are a metaphor of the structural situation of Central Africa. From the hairdressing salon where her hair become the vector of questioning to her stroll in Pointe Noire from historic to iconic places, Mundele offers a vision of France-Afrique past, present, and future like a meditation, an intriguing dream.
My Grandpa is a Troublemaker
My Grandpa is a Troublemaker | Documentary - short length | 9 minutes / 2020 | Director: Menna Elbezawy | Country: Egypt | A documentary about the great Egyptian writer Mahmoud El Saadany who was banished from writing in the era of president El Sadat and decided to leave the country with his kids
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October 9, 2020, 2:00 pm PST
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