MY NAME IS NOT ALI (JANNAT' ALI)
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PRODUCTION TEAM
Filmmaking : Viola Shafik
Scriptwriter : Viola Shafik
Photography : Viola Shafik
Montage : Doreen Ignaszewski
Production House : Onsi Abou Seif, Viola Shafik, 56, sh. El-Hegaz, Heliopolis, Le Caire (Égypte), [email protected]
MY NAME IS NOT ALI (JANNAT' ALI)
His anti-racist film, ALI, FEAR EATS THE SOUL (1973), gained German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder international acclaim. The protagonist, an Arab foreign worker, was played by Moroccan El Hedi Ben Salem, Fassbinder’s lover at that time. While the film itself courageously deals with the racism of postwar German society, its makers reproduced the insensibility and invention of the Other, fantasizing their own "Ali". This film uncovers the real Ali, not the mythical one Fassbinder pictured.
Viola Shafik
Viola Shafik was born in Germany in 1961. She studied cinema in Hamburg and currently teaches at the American University in Cairo. She has directed several documentaries including Iraqi Artists in Germany (1991), Mother of Light and her Daughters (1999) and The Lemon Tree (1993). She is also the author of the book Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity (1999).
28 August 2012 • 13h00 • CINÉMA QUARTIER LATIN 17 • L17.28.1 •
29 August 2012 • 21h50 • CINÉMA QUARTIER LATIN 17 • L17.29.5 •
2 September 2012 • 14h50 • CINÉMA QUARTIER LATIN 16 • L16.02.3 •
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