'Daughters of Abdulrahman' will be screened in the presence of its director on April 16.
Four features from MAD Solutions‘ distribution slate will be showcased at the first edition of Poland’s Eurasia International Film Festival, which runs until April 23.
The lineup includes four feature films — Zaid Abu Hamdan’s Daughters of Abdulrahman, Lebanese film Dirty Difficult Dangerous, by French-Lebanese director Wissam Charaf, Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan’s Nezouh, and The Exam by Shawkat Amin Korki.
Daughters of Abdulrahman is scheduled to feature in the festival’s Panorama Section. The film is expected to have two screenings — the first at 8 pm on April, 15 at Kino Atlantic with the director in attendance, and the second at 1 pm on April 16 at Kino Luna.
Written and directed by Zaid Abu Hamdan, Daughters of Abdulrahman stars Saba Mubarak, Farah Bsaiso, Hanan Al-Hilo, Mariam Al-Basha, and Khalid Al-Tarifi.
The film follows the story of Zainab, who wakes up to a shocking discovery that could defame her in the neighbourhood. She quickly calls for her sister Amaal’s aid. However, fiery Amaal has her own problems with their other sister Samah – who is too busy to be there – while Khitam, the fourth sister, is busy with her own goals in life.
Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous will have two screenings — one at 11 am on April 16 at Kino Luna, and the second at 7 pm on April 22 at Kino Atlantic.
Directed by Wissam Charaf — who co-wrote it with Hala Dabaji and Mariette Désert — the film stars Clara Couturet, Ziad Jallad, Rifaat Tarabay, and Darina Al-Joundi.
The film follows Ahmed — a Syrian refugee roaming the streets of Beirut searching for metal objects to be recycled — who thought he’d find love with Mehdia, an Ethiopian expat. However, in this city, such a story seems almost impossible.
Will the couple be able to reclaim their freedom despite Ahmed’s body slowly turning to metal due to a mysterious illness?
Shot in Turkey, Nezouh is written and directed by Soudade Kaadan. It’s produced by KAF Productions (Soudade Kaadan) and Berkeley Media Group (Yu-Fai Suen) in association with Ex Nihilo (Marc Bordure).
The film will also be screened twice — once on April 16 at Kino Luna at 4 pm and the second on April 20 at Kino Atlantic at 6 pm.
The film stars Kinda Alloush, Samer Al-Masri, Hala Zein, Nizar Alani, and Darina Al-Joundi, and is lensed by prominent cinematographer Hélène Louvart.
The film takes place during the Syrian conflict, when a missile destroys the ceiling of the house of 14-year-old Zeina (Hala Zein). As a result, she sleeps for the first time under the stars and makes friends with Amer (Nizar Alani), the boy next door. When the violence escalates, Zeina’s mother, Hala, (Kinda Alloush) decides to leave. She puts up a fight with her husband Motaz (Samer Al Masri)who refuses to become a refugee and tries everything to stop his family from leaving his house.
Shawkat Amin Korki’s critically acclaimed drama The Exam follows Rojin, a young Kurdish-Iraqi woman who is set to take the university’s admission exam, while Rojin’s unhappily married elder sister Shilan decides to assist her to pass at any cost in order to provide her with a more emancipated life. Thus, the sisters inevitably become entangled in a huge network of corruption that connects all parts of society.
The film stars Avan Jamal, Vania Salar, Hussein Hassan, and Hoshyar Nerwayi.
It will have two screenings: one on April 19 at Kino Luna at 8 pm and one on April 20 at Kino Atlantic at 8 pm.
