{"id":9208,"date":"2015-03-31T14:53:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T14:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinema.video\/?p=9208"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:30:32","slug":"festivalmiddle-east-now-torna-a-firenze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinema.video\/it\/festivalmiddle-east-now-torna-a-firenze","title":{"rendered":"FESTIVAL Middle East Now torna a Firenze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Il Medioriente torna a Firenze dall\u20198 al 13 aprile con la sesta edizione di <strong>Middle East Now<\/strong>, il festival internazionale di cinema <strong>Lisa Chiari e Roberto Ruta<\/strong>, che, partendo dagli schermi del Cinema Odeon e Stensen, si allarga a tutta la citt\u00e0, grazie anche ai sempre pi\u00f9 numerosi eventi di arte contemporanea, musica e di incontri.<\/p>\n<p>43 i film compongono il programma, che quest\u2019anno si concentra particolarmente sul tema del viaggio e vede le donne in primo piano, protagoniste e registe. Il film d\u2019apertura, \u201cTales\u201d, ultimo capolavoro della regista Rakhshan Bani Etemad (vincitore del premio \u201cmiglior sceneggiatura\u201d al festival di Venezia), \u00e8 interpretato da Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, una delle stelle del cinema iraniano contemporaneo, a cui il festival dedica un omaggio (la vedremo anche in \u201cThe Blue Veiled\u201d, altro film culto di Rakhshan Bani Etemad).<br \/>\nFra le new entry del Festival, il cinema turco, con due lavori della giovanissima Emine Emel Balci, fra cui l\u2019anteprima italiana di \u201cUntil I lose my breath\u201d, appena presentato alla Berlinale. Sempre dal Festival di Berlino arriva l\u2019anteprima del documentario \u201cCensored Voices\u201d, della giovane regista israeliana Mor Loushy, che svela le conversazioni censurate tra i soldati appena rientrati dalla guerra dei sei giorni del 1967.<br \/>\nAnche la Libia entra per la prima volta nel programma del Middle East Now, con la serie di cortometraggi brevi \u201cTripoli Stories\u201d, realizzati da giovani filmmakers libici.<br \/>\nDalla Siria, il documentario \u201cOur terribile country\u201d di Mohammad Ali Atassi, menzione speciale al festival di Marsiglia, sul fallimento degli intellettuali siriani nel guidare la rivoluzione, mentre dalla Palestina arriva l\u2019anteprima del documentario vincitore del festival di Abu Dhabi \u201cThe Wanted 18\u201d, di Amer Somali e Paul Cowan, sulla caccia alle 18 mucche considerate minaccia nazionale durante la Prima Intifada.<br \/>\nSaranno a Firenze anche i gemelli Tarzan e Arab, nuove promesse del cinema palestinese, con il loro ultimo cortometraggio \u201cApartment 10\/14\u201d, e come protagonisti del documentario \u201cTarzan e Arab\u201d, che il regista americano Paul Fischer ha girato su di loro.<\/p>\n<p>Moltissimi gli appuntamenti che ruoteranno intorno al Festival: dai <strong>Middle East Talks<\/strong> (dibattiti, presentazioni di libri e approfondimenti su temi caldi dell\u2019attualit\u00e0 mediorientale), agli eventi enogastronomici e\u00a0 musicali (arriva in Italia <strong>The Narcisist<\/strong>, il musicista dandy iracheno-canadese, nome di punta dell\u2019Arab hip-hop), dalle installazioni (<strong>Soundscape of Teheran<\/strong>) alle mostre fotografiche (<strong>Everyday Middle East<\/strong>).<br \/>\nE ancora presentazione di guide e letture per viaggiatori alle prese con il Medio Oriente (<strong>Voyage Books<\/strong>), e i video di <strong>Ro Nature<\/strong>, il team specializzato in avventure eco sostenibili in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Il Festival, organizzato dall\u2019associazione culturale <strong>Map of Creation<\/strong>, \u00e8 inserito nel cartellone della <strong>Primavera di Cinema Orientale<\/strong>, realizzato per Regione Toscana da <strong>Quelli della Compagnia di Fondazione Sistema Toscana<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Il Medioriente torna a Firenze dall\u20198 al 13 aprile con la sesta edizione di Middle East Now, il festival internazionale di cinema Lisa Chiari e Roberto Ruta, che, partendo dagli schermi del Cinema Odeon e Stensen, si allarga a tutta la citt\u00e0, grazie anche ai sempre pi\u00f9 numerosi eventi di arte contemporanea, musica e di [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow3e7fCw:productID":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-senza-categoria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FESTIVAL Middle East Now torna a Firenze - Cinema &amp; Video International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"FESTIVAL Middle East Now torna a Firenze \u2013 festival middle east now torna a. 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