In the month of July, PAMM will host weekly films presented by Cinémathèque de Tanger, a cinema cultural center in the historic heart of Tanger, Morocco. The films draw on themes of humanity, migration, tradition and loss in the exhibition Poetics of Relation.
Film Shedule
Thursday, July 9, 7pm
The Tangier 8
By Ivan Boccara, Carla Faesler, Akram Zaatari, Liliane Giraudon, Natalia Almada, Peter Gizzi, Jem Cohen, Luc Sante.
Experimental
USA/France/Lebanon/Mexico/Morocco, 2009, 41Min
Original version with English Subtitles
In the summer of 2009, eight international poets and filmmakers were invited to Tangier, Morocco to collaborate on a project inspired by the city. With less than two weeks to produce, film and edit, the eight poets and filmmakers worked in pairs to create experimental “film-poems.”
Balcon Atlantico
By Hicham Falah & Chrif Tribak
Short
Morocco, 2003, 20Min
Original version with English Subtitles
Filmed in the small Moroccan seaport town of Larache, “Balcon Atlantico” depicts the everyday encounters of its residents as they meet, fall in love, and part ways. Through snippets of conversations and confessions by lovers, young and old. “Balcon Atlantico” captures the beauty and diversity of the many ways people say “I love you,” “it’s getting late,” and “see you tomorrow.”
Thursday, July 16, 7pm
Le Mirage
By Ahmed Bouanani
Fiction
Morocco, 1979, 100Min
Casting Mohamed Afifi, Abdellah Amrani, Mohamed Habachi
Arabic with English Subtitles
Ahmed Bouanani’s only feature film follows the story of a young peasant in his attempts to change money he finds in a bag of flour. Credited with bringing experimentation to Moroccan cinema, the film weaves Morocco’s rich history and oral traditions with a journey through dark layers and labyrinths.
Thursday, July 23, 7pm
Al Halqa
By Thomas Ladenburger
Documentary
Germany/Morocco, 2013, 93Min
Arabic with English Subtitles
Al Halqa depicts the age-old tradition of storytelling and its encounters with modern media. Master storyteller, Abderahim El Maqori, begins teaching his son the art of storytelling in order to keep the tradition alive. Their journey around Morocco reveals the traditions and secrets of the Halaiqis (storytellers).
Thursday, July 30, 7pm
Little Senegal
By Rachid Bouchareb
Fiction
Algeria/France/Germany, 2001, 98Min
Casting Sotigui Kouyaté, Sharon Hope, Roschdy Zem
French & English with english Subtitles
After working as a tour guide at the Senegalese slave museum for many years, Alloune decides to take a trip to the United States in hopes of reconnecting with the descendants of his ancestors who were taken and sold as slaves in the New World 200 years ago.
