FINAL CUT IN VENICE
The 14th edition of Final Cut in Venice program will present quality rough cuts coming from all African countries, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen and will give them the opportunity of finding the postproduction financing through our partners and the participants. Introduction to the projects and greetings by Festival Director Alberto Barbera.
9:30
Introduction and opening remarks by Alberto Barbera (Artistic Director of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival) and Allessandra Speciale (Curator of Final Cut in Venice)
9:45
A QUARTER TO THURSDAY (JEUDI MOINS LE QUART)
(France, Belgium, Algeria)
52’ (out of 90’ expected)
Director: Sofia Djama
Production: Tessalit Productions, FuryoFilms , Artemis Productions, Zoudj Doro Production
Genre: Fiction
Logline: Once upon a time, in an imaginary country where presidents never die, there were three friends, three bumbling idiots: Goussam, Cherifa Griffa, Riad and a dead Jack Russel named Trump. Goussam, a young woman with lungs full of hope and a plump bottom, is pregnant.
Q&A
Gold and Trade accreditations only
11:00
MADI MAKAMBU
(Congo Dr, France, Belgium)
60’ (out of 110’ expected)
Director: Machérie Ekwa Bahango
Production: CL1 D’oeil Studio, Boucan Films
Genre: Fiction
Logline: The lives of the two lovers, Madi and Djino, take a dramatic turn when Madi gives birth to a child Djino is not the father of, after experiencing a denied pregnancy. Though she doesn’t want to care for the baby, she is forced to confront her past.
Q&A
Gold and Trade accreditations only
14:30
MEHAL SEFARI
(Ethiopia, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Saudi Arabia)
100’ rough cut
Director: Abraham Gezahagne
Production: Gobez Media Inc., Abricom Multimedia, Barents Film, 2Pilots, New Amsterdam
Genre: Fiction
Logline: Tilahun, a politically apathetic ambulance driver, collects bodies from the streets of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, during a mass killing in 1977. He is forced to choose a side when he finds his son’s body.
Q&A
Gold and Trade accreditations only
OPENING REMARKS:
Alberto Barbera (Artistic Director of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival)
Allessandra Speciale (Curator of Final Cut in Venice)
