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.

10:00 

PLAGUE (BALAA) 

(Tunisia, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia) 

60’ (out of 105’ expected) 

Director: Youssef Chebbi 

Production: Supernova films, Blast Films, Portobisso 

Genre: Fiction 

Logline: A farming town lost at the gates of the Tunisian desert. Zied and Ali are twin brothers, they are in charge of a palm grove. While Zied plans to marry Hana, Ali lives from day to day. But everything changes when Ali discovers a red palm-eating insect: the weevil. 

Q&A 

Gold and Trade accreditations only

11:30 

ELDORADO, THE TASTE OF THE SOUTH (ELDORADO, LE GOÛT DU SUD) 

(Morocco, France, Italy, Norway) 

45’ (out of 100’ expected) 

Director: Alaa Eddine Aljem 

Production: Le Moindre Geste, Haut Les Mains Productions, Dugong Films, Jacaranda Productions, Duo Film 

GENRE: Fiction 

Logline: A group of migrants seeks to reach Eldorado, a secret utopian island where everyone lives in peace – and eventually ends up in a factory of the same name that produces tomato sauce. 

Q&A 

Gold and Trade accreditations only 

14:45 

OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS (AL IHTILAL WA AL HAL) 

(Jordan, Qatar, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Palestine) 

60’ (out of 100’ expected) 

Director: Bassel Ghandour 

Production: The Imaginarium Films, Tough Crowd, Cocoon Films, Metafora Productions 

Genre: Fiction 

Logline: A dark comedy about a family in Jerusalem who fight to keep their home from crumbling – literally and figuratively – as their struggle against the system takes on wild and unorthodox forms. 

Q&A 

Gold and Trade accreditations only