English

COUNTRIES: Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Tunisia, Egypt & Oman.

PARTNER: Ma3mal 612 Think Factory (JO)

AUDIENCE: 2,496

SUPPORTED BY: The Danish Centre for Gender, Equality and Diversity – KVINFO (DK) and Danish-Arab Partnership Programme (DK)

 

 

Stories Untold

Arab Women Uncensored

We all have lives. We all have stories. We all have phones.

C:NTACT and MA3MAL 612 present the film series STORIES UNTOLD.

STORIES UNTOLD presents the unique stories of eleven exceptional women from across the Middle East and North Africa region.

The films are made by the women themselves with the help and facilitation of six professional female filmmakers from Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Oman.

The first-time filmmakers have been taught to express themselves visually through film on a need-to-know basis by six female professional filmmakers from the MENA region, who C:NTACT and MA3MAL 612 have worked with to create a method of self-expression through film.

The directors and the first-time filmmakers thus enter in a unique symbiosis, where they together create a completely new genre, distanced from classic documentary and closer to personal storytelling aesthetic.

The films have been screened in more than 50 times in Denmark, Oman, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Tunisia and in various film festivals such as BBC Arabic Festival 2017, CPH:DOX 2015, Karama Human Rights Film Festival 2015 and International Festival Of Amateur film makers of Kelibia 2015.

COUNTRIES: Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Tunisia, Egypt & Oman.

PARTNER: Ma3mal 612 Think Factory (JO)

AUDIENCE: 2,496

SUPPORTED BY: The Danish Centre for Gender, Equality and Diversity – KVINFO (DK) and Danish-Arab Partnership Programme (DK)

 

 

MENTORS:  Torben Simonsen & Ayed Nabaa

TUTORS:  Soumeya Bouallegui, Lina Alabed, Muzna Al Musafer, Emtyaz Al Moghrabi, Mais Sahli, and Noha El Madawi

FIRST-TIME FILMMAKERS:  Mai Mohsen, Iman Amira, Moza Al Jabri, Sarah Zeryab, Rym Mouelhi, Alia El Masri, Qadar Fayyad, Abeer Harb, Fatma Hassan, Rima Al Nihawi & Zohra Bellamine

PROJECT MANAGERS:  Naghmeh Mahmoudi Kashani & Omar Tarawneh

CONCEPT:  Henrik Hartmann

Watch all the films on C:NTACT profile on vimeo.com.

Next year we'll have a good harvest - Tunisia

Zohra has chosen to be a farmer in Tunisia. She narrates her relationship with the land she works in, with her father who died and with the rain she awaits.

Pashk - Oman

Fatma is a woman in her early fifties with thick voice, tall body, always wearing Baluchi colourful clothes. She tells the story of her daily routines and her joy in telling the story of her admiration with the Baluchi dresses.

Captain Abeer - Palestine

Abeer is a student and the only coach for the women’s soccer team in Balata refugee camp, Nablus. She faces the fact that there is no women’s soccer team in Northern West Bank as traditions forbid women to practice soccer.

One Step Too Late - Lebanon

Rima is a 35 years old daughter who took the first steps in confronting her father’s abandonment of the whole family, in order to achieve some reconciliation with her past and overcome her fears.