Cinema From Below: Movements of Resistance | Berlinale Talents 2020
Unleash the revolutionary potential of filmmaking. Challenging the oft-rehearsed idea that protests of the Arab Spring were a product of social media, Viola Shafik turns our attention to the history of collective filmmaking in the Arab world and argues that cinema has always provided a means of organising and voicing a community’s grievances. Her thesis, illustrated in the form of a brief survey, finds contemporary examples in the work of filmmakers Mohamad El-Hadidi and Nadir Bouhmouch. The latter’s most recent documentary-experiment “Amussu” is the outcome of a participatory process initiated by those portrayed, enabling the inhabitants of a fiercely autonomous Moroccan village to speak of their decade-long protest against Africa’s biggest silver mine. Moderated by Viola Shafik
Berlinale Talents is the festival’s talent development programme for 250 emerging filmmakers and series creators from all over the world, featuring 30 public talks, workshops and screenings.
Photo in thumbnail © David Ausserhofer, Berlinale 2020
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