For its 2007 edition, the Oriental Film Festival has selected a few movies in English or with English subtitles. Asia and society, Nadia Naffa, documentary, Jordan, 5’, DVD. A disabled woman fights for recognition in Jordan. Being Osama, Mahmoud Kaabour and Tim Schwab, documentary, Canada/Emirates, 2004, 42’, DVD. An intimate portrait of six men with different personal histories, interrests and personalities, but which have two things in common: their Arab origin, and a first name, Osama. Wh...
The Oriental Film Festival will start in Geneva on March 26, 2007, with the projection of The Wretched Life of Juanita Narboni, in the presence of Moroccan director Farida Benlyazid. It will continue for a week, with a selection of films, most of them never shown in Switzerland. The 3rd edition of the Festival will focus on women, as directors or as subjects of films. Cry no More, by Narjiss Nejjar, Allez Yallah! by Jean-Pierre Thorn, or Women without Shadows, by Haifaa Al-Mansour, all adopt dif...