Cinema South Festival

Edition details: Check the official festival's website for dates, deadlines and fees.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

About: The Cinema South festival is held in southern Israel, located in one of the most charged and fascinating areas in the Middle East - in the midst of townships of long-established immigrants from North Africa, who live alongside recent immigrants from Ethiopia and Caucasia, among Latin American moshavim and kibbutzim, communities of semi-nomadic Bedouin, and in close proximity to large Palestinian cities – Gaza and Rafiah. Within these triangular borders, we attempt to open the way for a new sort of film – different, bold, and aspiring. "South" here means far more than just geographic location – it's a cinematic worldview implemented in cinema that's impoverished in means, but rich in humanity. "The south" is a metaphor for creation taking place in a peripheral area, without inferiority complexes and with ambitions to spark off a critical dialogue with the hegemonic centre.

Cinema South believes in cinema which believes in people, wherever they are; it believes in cinema that tries to reveal human happiness - and its absence – in film that tries to expose the superfluous evils that people suffer from, as well as the production and distribution of those evils.
Website: http://csf.sapir.ac.il