Group Discussion for the Muslim film festival
Dear All,
You are invited to join us in group discussion for the Muslim film festival.
The meeting will be held in
VENUE: HA Building2,NCTU :Room No. (HB 10) //交大人社2館b10教室
TIME:6:00 pm
We will be glad to have you in the meetings and hearing your opinions
Please find below the detailed table with the dates of meetings, film description, and links.
For further information please feel free to contact us to this email:workinggroupn2020@
| DATE | PERSON IN CHARGE | Name | Description | link | Country represented | Category |
| Oct 11th | Wendy | The Willow Tree | Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before? After an operation he regains his vision, changing his life in unexpected ways. | https://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Iran | |
| A separation | n unhappily married couple break up in this complex, painful, fascinating Iranian drama by writer-director Asghar Farhadi, with explosive results that expose a network of personal and social faultlines. | https://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Iran | |||
| Oct 18th | Mifta | Perempuan Berkalung Sorban | This film mainly tells us about how religious boarding schools play an important role in Indonesian society especially in shaping a stereotype about gender differences (men always being positioned higher than women in many aspects of life; eg. pursuing education, being a leader etc). I believe his film can make participants to reconsider the gender issues in their own countries, reflecting about contradictions and hypocresies | https://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Indonesia | |
| Tanda Tanya | (about religious pluralism) The theme is Indonesian religious pluralism, which often results in conflict between religious beliefs, represented in a plot that revolves around the interactions of three families, one Buddhist, one Muslim, and one Catholic. After undergoing numerous hardships and the deaths of several family members in religious violence, they are reconciled. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Indonesia | |||
| Mata Tertutup | https://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Indonesia | ||||
| Nov 1st | Monika and Noora | Shahid | Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film directed by Hansal Mehta. Jointly produced by Anurag Kashyap, UTV Spotboy and Sunil Bohra, it is based on the life of lawyer and human rights activist Shahid Azmi, who was assassinated in 2010. | https://www.youtube.com/watch? |
India | terrorism, based on real facts |
| A girl in the river | https://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Pakistan | ||||
| Nov 22nd | Jason | On a Tightrope | The film revolves around four children living in an orphanage in Xinjiang province, China. The children are Uyghurs, members of China's largest Muslim minority. Their dream is to become tightrope walkers, an ancient Uyghur tradition. Tightrope walking is in this movie a metaphor for how the Uyghurs try to balance between their Muslim faith and living in a communist state, where they are severely restricted in practicing their religion. This is the first film to ever document Chinese policy on religion in Xinjiang. | https://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Xinjiang (China) | documentary |
| The trail from Xinjiang | https://youtu.be/wB9o9-IIQJY | Xinjiang (China) | ||||
| Nov 29th | Hadeel | Wajib | Abu Shadi is a divorced father and 60-year-old school teacher who lives in Nazareth. On the eve of his daughter's marriage, Abu awaits the help of his other son, a successful architect who has lived in Rome for a long time and must travel to Nazareth to help him prepare the wedding. As required by the Palestinian tradition, Abu must deliver the wedding invitations personally to each guest. This situation will be the opportunity for both father and son to rekindle their relationship, lost by distance and the passage of time. | https://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Palestine | |
| The Time That Remain |
The Time That Remains is a 2009 semi-biographical drama film written and directed by Palestinian director Elia Suleiman. The film stars Ali Suliman, Elia Suleiman, Saleh Bakri and Samar Qudha Tanus. It gives an account of the creation of the Israeli state from 1948 to the present. | https://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Palestine | |||
| Dunya’s Day | Directed by Saudi filmmaker Raed Alsemari, this comedic short is set in Riyadh and follows a spoiled young woman named Dunya whose perfect graduation party is set back when her domestic help, fed up with her antics, take off just hours before her guests are anticipated to arrive. | https://vimeo.com/310425066 | KSA | comedy | ||
| Dec 13th | Kahlan | Dernier Maquis | Talk of living wages and religious observances upsets the delicate accord between the boss of a run-down truck yard and his workers in this visually arresting take on the French-Algerian immigrant experience. | https://www.dailymotion.com/ |
France | |
| AZIZA directed by Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan, |
This mini film is a dynamic take on the life of Syrian refugees told through black comedy. | https://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Syria | 13 min, black comedy |