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Palestinian Filmmaker Rashid Masharawi Talks About Opening Cairo Film Festival With ‘Passing Dreams’: ‘Hope Is Part of the Resistance’
Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi opens the Cairo Film Festival with the world premiere of his new film 'Passing Dreams.'
His father is in jail and his carrier pigeon has flown away so he heads off to Bethlehem to ask his uncle (Ashraf Barhom) to help him find the lost bird. Masharawi agrees, talking with Variety on the eve of the festival: “Where there is no hope, cinema should invent it just to show it to the people and make them touch it and believe in it because this also is part of our resistance. Although Masharawi is deeply concerned with Gaza – earlier this year, he produced “From Ground Zero,” an anthology of shorts filmed during the ongoing conflict – he insists on his role as a filmmaker first and foremost.
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