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Amman’s Pitching Platforms Titles Catches the Range, Depth and Nuance of New Titles from Emerging Arab World Talent
Also selected: Berlin Golden Bear awardees Noel and Michelle Keserwany, Student Oscar Laureate Murad Abu Eishe, Cannes Palme d’Or winner Fig Leaf.
“The Cow Thief” co-producer Fig Leaf Studios was behind Cannes 2020 Palme d’Or winner “I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face.” “Six 2 One” (a working title) is backed by Ghassan Salti’s FilmCrew Production Services, a line producer on dozens of international shoots in Jordan. A turn-up for the books after Anas Khalaf’s “dark, very hopeless” – his words – “The Translator,” “Love-45,” surely one of the Platforms’ most commercial propositions, weighs in as an Arab-country-set romantic drama, turns on tennis and has a happy ending, producer Marine Vaillant notes. The spirit of many films at AFID is caught by the intentions of “Asphalt.” “Unlike typical conflict narratives, ‘Asphalt’ exposes the quiet tragedies of displacement: dreams deferred by tradition, politics, and pure bad luck.
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