Jubilee festival Cinéma Arabe - 15 years window on the Arab world

by Leo Bankersen
13 May 201930 March 2022
7 min read
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Twee volle zalen in het Amsterdamse Rialto Theater voor Fatwa van Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud, de openingsfilm van Cinéma Arabe 2019. Dit Tunesische drama vertelt het indringende verhaal van een vader die naar Tunesië terugkeert om zijn zoon te begraven. En daar tot zijn verbijstering ontdekt dat de seculier opgevoede jongen zijn toevlucht zocht bij radicale moslims. Vorig jaar in Caïro bekroond als beste Arabische film.
Ahmed Hafiene in Fatwa (foto: Cinéma Arabe)
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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

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