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Cinema Elvire Popesco -
Saturday, December 13, 2014 - 17:30
Written by:
Roy Dib
Cast:
Abed Kobeissy, Ziad Chakaroun
Sound:
Fadi Tabbal, Stephane Reeves
Romanian premiere
Winner of the TEDDY Award at Berlinale, MONDIAL 2010 is a heart-breaking and deeply insightful musing on love, identity and the borders that restrain and define them. A Lebanese gay couple decides to take a road trip to Ramallah and we experience their journey first-person through the camera lens. Meeting their friends, sight-seeing at the West-Bank wall or simply observing the city as it zooms past the lens, are seen from a privileged perspective that looks beyond the travel-diary surface of the footage, to unravel a disheartening narrative drama. The politics of identity and its complexity have never been so achingly expressed. (Andrei Tănăsescu, BIEFF)
Director:
Born in 1983, ROY DIB is an artist and an art critic that works and lives in Beirut, Lebanon. His work focuses on the subjective constructions of space. As an art critic, he currently writes for the cultural section of Al-Akhbar newspaper. His first video, UNDER A RAINBOW, was shown at Palais de Tokyo, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Senatsreservenspeicher Berlin Gallery, and Parallel Vienna. He participated in the Home Workspace Program in Beirut, where he produced a video installation entitled OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR that was later presented in the 18th edition of Videobrasil and in EcransMed Film festival in Montreal.
Website:
Contact:
roydeeb[at]gmail[dot]com
Festivals, awards:
- Teddy Award Best Short Film - Berlin International Film Festival 2014
- Best First Film - Lebanese Film Festival 2014
- Melbourne International Film Festival 2014
- Middle East Now Film Festival, Florence 2014
Director's statement:
MONDIAL 2010 is a discussion of institutional borders in modern day Middle East. It uses video as an apparatus to transgress boundaries that are inflicted on people in spite of them. It is a travel film in a trajectory that doesn’t allow travel, starring two male lovers, in a setting where homosexuality is a punishable felony. Shot with a hand-held camcorder, Mondial 2010 borrows the aesthetics of a travel video log. It normalizes the abnormal, and by doing so creates its own universe of possibility. It is a shift from the mainstream passive view of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict that places the victim/oppressor in the forefront of the produced imagery. This video glides over this conflict with an upper hand. At the same time Mondial 2010 invites viewers through the protagonist's conversations into the universe of a fading city, Ramallah. (Roy Dib)
MONDIAL 2010 is a discussion of institutional borders in modern day Middle East. It uses video as an apparatus to transgress boundaries that are inflicted on people in spite of them. It is a travel film in a trajectory that doesn’t allow travel, starring two male lovers, in a setting where homosexuality is a punishable felony. Shot with a hand-held camcorder, Mondial 2010 borrows the aesthetics of a travel video log. It normalizes the abnormal, and by doing so creates its own universe of possibility. It is a shift from the mainstream passive view of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict that places the victim/oppressor in the forefront of the produced imagery. This video glides over this conflict with an upper hand. At the same time Mondial 2010 invites viewers through the protagonist's conversations into the universe of a fading city, Ramallah. (Roy Dib)