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Festival Cinemed 2023 - FR
Pour ce deuxième podcast Radio Tabbouli, TMR vous emmène au Festival CINEMED - le Festival International du Cinéma Méditerranéen de Montpellier - pour sa 45eme édition. Nous y rencontrerons deux jeunes réalisateurs Lina Soualem et Cyril Aris pour deux documentaires en compétition.
Au menu : l’interview de Lina Soualem accompagnée de sa mère l’actrice Hiam Abbass pour le documentaire Bye Bye Tibériade sur les traces de quatre générations de femmes palestiniennes. Nous continuerons avec l’interview du réalisateur Cyril Aris pour son documentaire Danser sur un volcan qui nous emmène au Liban au lendemain de l’explosion du port de Beyrouth au cœur du tournage du film Costa Brava, Lebanon.
English
For this second Radio Tabbouli podcast, TMR takes you to the 45th edition of the CINEMED Festival - Montpellier's International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema. We meet two young directors, Lina Soualem and Cyril Aris, for two documentaries in competition.
On the menu: an interview with Lina Soualem and her mother, actress Hiam Abbass, for the documentary "Bye Bye Tiberias," following in the footsteps of four generations of Palestinian women. We continue with an interview with director Cyril Aris for his documentary "Dancing on the edge of a Volcano," which takes us to Lebanon in the aftermath of the explosion in the port of Beirut, at the heart of the filming of Costa Brava, Lebanon.
01:19 Trailer Bye Bye Tibériade
03:57 Interview Lina Soualem & Hiam Abbass
12:50 Trailer Danser sur un volcan
14:45 Interview Cyril Aris
Bande annonce audio Bye Bye Tibériade de Lina Soualem © JHR Films
Bande annonce audio Danser sur un volcan de Cyril Aris © Salaud Morisset
Festival CINEMED 2023
https://www.cinemed.tm.fr/
Animatrice Sarah de The Markaz Review (TMR)
Literature and Arts from the Center of the World
https://themarkaz.org/
https://linktr.ee/themarkazreview
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