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Original Film Title: Coronavirus Pandemic
Directors Name: Rafael de Amorim
Writers Name: Rafael de Amorim
Producer: Gabriela Schiller
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 3 min 35 sec
Film Description:
Shot and edited on a Sunday blue in Manchester. Sad but true.
A provocative short film to get people thoughtful about Coronavirus Pandemic.
English Film Title: ROLLER GIRLS BEIRUT
Original Film Title: ROLLER GIRLS BEIRUT
Directors Name: Rene Odgaard
Writers Name: Rene Odgaard
Producer: Rene Odgaard
Country of Origin: Denmark
Country of Filming: Lebanon
Language: Danish, English
Runtime: 23 min 21 sec
Film Description:
Documentary film about Elisabeth who has found something she has been missing in her life; a place to be the tomboy she has always been. She has decided to share all of this and therefore she goes to Beirut to start a Roller Derby team.
Original Film Title: The consolation of the blue
Directors Name: Joe Zhao
Writers Name: Sylvia Moerland
Producer: Joe Zhao
Country of Origin: Netherlands
Country of Filming: China, Netherlands, Taiwan
Language: English
Runtime: 13 min 51 sec
Film Description:
A mysterious blue porcelain vase evokes the love story of the Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji, who fell in love with Queen Suhita of the Majapahit Empire. This mystery has been hidden for almost six hundred years.
Original Film Title: M’Hamid Oasis Morocco
Directors Name: Monika Koeck
Writers Name: Monika Koeck
Producer: Monika Koeck
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: Morocco
Language: English
Runtime: 22 min 30 sec
Film Description:
The film M’Hamid Oasis Morocco documents the restoration and recording work undertaken by an international team of researchers and volunteers in the most remote oasis of the Draa Valley, at the edge of the Sahara Desert.
In 2019, ArCHIAM (University of Liverpool) and the NGO Terrachidia (Spain) teamed up in conducting an “Earthen Architectural Heritage Workshop” in M’Hamid/Morocco. Involving the local community as well as architects, engineers and earthen-architecture enthusiasts from around the world, the team restored and documented the oasis’ endangered cultural heritage. In addition, the workshop provided an opportunity for local young people to get trained by master builders in earth building techniques, which otherwise would be forgotten.
The film creates awareness of the cultural significance of this place and its struggle of survival, highlighting its tourism potential. It will inform government bodies and public/private stakeholders to assist in securing funding to implement sustainable development initiatives that can reactivate the settlement through the synergy of heritage preservation/economic and infrastructural development/community participation and empowerment.
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