Al Jazeera Documentary is preparing to participate in the “Documentary Section” (Cannes Docs) of the “76th Cannes Film Festival Market, which will be held from 16 to 24 May next, as one of the main support parties, and Al Jazeera Documentary will present a co-production prize of $ 15,000 for one Among the documentaries in production that will be selected for the session. The partnership is between Al Jazeera Documentary and the Festival "He was" An extension of Al Jazeera Documentary support for documentary film makers. This is the policy that documentaries have pursued over the past years through active participation in the most prominent events of the documentary film industry around the world. A movie has also been selected "white lie" Which Al-Jazeera Documentary participated in producing in a competition "look what" at the festival. The film is directed by Moroccan director Asmaa El Moudir. During its participation in the previous edition, Al-Jazeera Documentary presented a co-production prize of $15,000 in the “Cannes Documentaries” section, and it went in favor of the movie “Bye Bye Tiberias” by the Palestinian-Algerian director Lina Sweilem, in which she tells about the journey of her mother, the Palestinian actress. Thirty years ago Hayam Abbas moved to France, where she left her hometown in the village of Deir Hanna in the Galilee in pursuit of her dream of acting. Today, the director’s daughter dives into her mother’s bold worlds, addressing the impact left by her mother’s relatives in the Galilee on the life of this able actress. The documentary also presented two projects under production in the Notable Projects section of the Project Development Workshop, namely the project “My Brother ALI” by the Spanish director “Paola Palacios”, which tells the story of the refugee Ali who fled Somalia because of the war there, and was arrested twice during his attempt to Crossing the borders of the European Union. As for the second project, it is “Don’t Let The Sun Go Up On Me” by Moroccan director Asmaa Al-Mudir, in which it tells the story of Habib, a father who discovered the illness of his daughter Fatima Al-Zahraa through his passion for cinema. After her illness changed his life and adapting to it. Mr. Jamal Dalali, Director of Production at Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel, said in exclusive statements to Qatari media: “Al-Jazeera’s documentary participation in the Cannes International Film Festival takes two aspects: the first aspect is the selection of a film we participated in producing, which is the Moroccan film.”"white lie" To enter a documentary film competition, and the other side is to participate in the section devoted to documentaries, where we sponsor an award that is our participation in supporting a documentary film project, in addition to meetings with filmmakers to introduce the documentary island and how to deal with it. Regarding the mechanism for selecting film projects to support them productively, Jamal Dalali said: We choose a list of projects that were submitted to the documentary section, and the owners of these projects present their ideas, so that the appropriate idea is then chosen according to certain criteria: that the idea is related to the Arab world, and it is preferable that it be one of the parties The project, whether the director or producer, is from the Arab world, and that the idea achieves successes and prizes in festivals. As for the rest of the ideas that met the standards and conditions, we ask their owners to submit them through the channel’s electronic portal, and according to the well-known project submission path. He pointed out that the documentary project, “By Bye Tiberias”, which won the co-production award in the “Cannes Documentaries” section in the last session, is currently in production, stressing that the production of the film comes in the context of the channel’s direction and its bias to support Arab filmmakers around the world. Regarding the importance of this partnership with the Cannes Festival, Al-Dalali indicated that this comes within the framework of Al-Jazeera Documentary’s tendency to search for partnerships with internationally known festivals and events, adding that the Festival "He was" One of the world-famous festivals, but the documentaries section was not known. The production director of Al Jazeera Documentary stated that the channel is currently participating in the first session of the Rabat International African Documentary Film Festival, as one of the sponsors, and by organizing sessions with African filmmakers. Adding: Among the goals that we are focusing on in the current period is moving towards the south and searching for topics close to the Arab viewer, pointing out that this trend is translated, whether through participation in production or full production. It is noteworthy that eight documentaries participate in the official competition of the Rabat International Festival for African Documentary Film, and these films compete for the three festival awards: the Grand Prize, sponsored by Al Jazeera Documentary, the Jury Prize, and the University Prize for Creativity. Al-Jazeera Documentary is also represented in the jury of the official competition of the festival, producer Adel Ksaksi, along with Khalil Damoun from Morocco, Adico John Michel Anuman from Cote d’Ivoire, Giuseppe Buemi from Italy, Hajja Mimouna from Senegal, Khaled Al-Yahya from Saudi Arabia, and the presidency of John Marie Tino from Cameroon. .
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