Women in Film Panel — Venice International Film Festival
We are so excited to share that CMP is partnering with Women in Film: A Panel Discussion to present their annual panel at Venice International Film Festival!
"Reframing the Lens: How Can Women Transform Global Filmmaking?" will be held on Wednesday, September 3rd at 2pm (Sala Bianca Via P. Buratti 1 Lido de Venezia).
We are proud to co-host with Mari-Bi Production, FEMS du Cinema, and Isola Edipo.
Panelists:
Fatima Al Quadiri — Composer, L’étranger
Odessa Rae — Producer, The Voice of Hind Rajab
Yun Huang — Actor, Silent Friend
Anuparna Roy — Director, Songs of Forgotten Trees
Marie-Elsa Squaldo — Director, Silent Rebellion
Moderator:
Rahmatou Keita — Writer/Director
RSVP now by emailing maribiprod@gmail.com or at the button below.
Thank you to Magaajyia Silberfeld for this lovely opportunity.
We hope to see you there!
Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother’s funeral without shedding a tear. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie, a work colleague, and quickly slips back into his usual routine. However, his daily life is soon disrupted by his neighbour, Raymond Sintès, who draws Meursault into his shady dealings — until, on one blisteringly hot day, a tragic event occurs on a beach.
15-year-old Emma — pregnant after a rape — defies her repressive rural Protestant community to carve a path of self-determination, transforming trauma into a catalyst for emancipation while confronting the moral hypocrisy of the village and the spectre of World War II around her.
Thooya, a migrant and aspiring actress, secretly works as a part time sex worker in Mumbai. When she sublets her sugar daddy’s flat to Swetha, a call-centre employee and a migrant, an unexpected connection begins to form. Their lives, seemingly worlds apart, slowly entangle. Amid the city’s chaos, they share silences, stories, and small acts of care. But as buried desires and past wounds emerge, the fragile bond is tested.
In the heart of a botanical garden in a medieval university town in Germany stands a majestic ginkgo tree. This silent witness has observed over a century the quiet rhythms of transformation across three human lives — a neuroscientist from Hong Kong in 2020, a young undergrad in 1972, and the university’s first female student in 1908. We follow their clumsy attempts to connect as they are transformed by the mysterious power of nature.
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A six-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.