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film id<br />
690<br />
section<br />
Dok Market<br />
going up tHe stairs<br />
by rokhsareh ghaemmmaghami<br />
A warm, revealing and often surprisingly funny portrait<br />
of an unlikely artist shows us that true talent will<br />
refuse to be stifled and you don’t need an education to<br />
channel your emotions into art. Akram is an illiterate,<br />
50-year-old Iranian woman who became a painter<br />
unexpectedly and created an explosion of powerful,<br />
primitive and colourful paintings, which she hid<br />
under a carpet from possibly disapproving eyes. When<br />
she tells her Western educated children about her<br />
work, they arrange for her to have an exhibition in far-off<br />
Paris. The only hitch in this plan is that Akram must<br />
obtain permission from her husband – who she married<br />
when she was 8 and he was in his 30s – in order to<br />
attend. Their comfortable bickering covers up Akram’s<br />
frustrations and fears that her chance for recognition<br />
of her magical talent lays completely in the hands of this<br />
conservative and traditional Iranian man.<br />
genre<br />
arts / culture / Music<br />
portrait<br />
facts<br />
iran, 2011<br />
colour, HDcam<br />
52 min<br />
original title<br />
going up the stairs<br />
original language<br />
persian<br />
Produced by<br />
rokhsareh ghaemmmaghami,<br />
iran<br />
sales contact<br />
Jan rofekamp<br />
films transit international<br />
252 gouin Boulevard east<br />
H3l 1a8 Montreal, canada<br />
jan@filmstransit.com<br />
www.filmstransit.com<br />
section<br />
Dok Market<br />
tHe great<br />
Book roBBerY<br />
by Benny Brunner<br />
Chronicles of a cultural destruction: the story of<br />
70,000 Palestinian books that were looted by the newly<br />
created State of Israel in 1948. The film interweaves<br />
various story lines in a structure that is dramatically<br />
compelling and emotionally unsettling. The film’s<br />
interviews center on eyewitness accounts and cultural<br />
critiques that place the book plunder affair in a larger<br />
historical-cultural context. The Great Book Robbery<br />
sheds new light on the Palestinian tragedy of 1948, also<br />
known as the Nakba (or ‘catastrophe’), when some<br />
725,000 Palestinians were dispossessed to make way for<br />
a Jewish-majority Israeli state. In the intervening years,<br />
Israel has constructed a moralistic and heroic narrative<br />
of the 1948 war. The film aims to deconstruct this<br />
imperial history and to prevent this story from fading<br />
into oblivion by passing it on to future generations.<br />
genre<br />
author’s point of View<br />
History / politics / current affairs<br />
facts<br />
israel, netherlands, 2012<br />
colour, B / W, HDcam<br />
57 min / 48 min<br />
original title<br />
the great Book robbery<br />
original language<br />
english, Hebrew<br />
Produced by<br />
Benny Brunner<br />
2911foundation, netherlands<br />
www.thegreatbookrobbery.org<br />
in co-Production With<br />
alexandra Jansse<br />
xela films, netherlands<br />
www.xelafilms.com<br />
involved broadcasters<br />
aljazeera english,<br />
united kingdom<br />
Public screenings<br />
5 / 2012 aljazeera english (tV),<br />
Qatar<br />
11 / 2012 iDfa, netherlands<br />
9 / 2012 st petersburg int ff /<br />
Message to Man, russia<br />
9 / 2012 Hamburg int ff, germany<br />
sales contact<br />
Benny Brunner<br />
2911foundation<br />
Weteringschans 40 / 1<br />
1017sH amsterdam, netherlands<br />
2911foundation@gmail.com<br />
www.thegreatbookrobbery.org<br />
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film id<br />
912
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