On Saturday, 23 February 2013 at 7 pm<\/b> AfricAvenir invites to the Namibian Premiere of the Egyptian-German documentary \u201eMy Name is Not Ali\u201c<\/b> (Germany\/Egypt, 2011, Original with English subtitles, 94 min) by Viola Shafik. His anti-racist film \u201cAli \u2013 Fear Eats Soul\u201d (Original title \u201cAngst Essen Seele Auf\u201d), 1973, gained German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder international acclaim. The protagonist, an Arab foreign worker, was played by Moroccan El Hedi Ben Salem M\u2019barek Mohammed Mustafa, Fassbinder\u2019s lover at that time. Collage-like, through interviews of his colleagues, family and archive material, "My Name Is Not Ali" courageously deals with the racism of post-war German society<\/b> and uncovers the invention of El Hedi Ben Salem by the Fassbinder troupe, an image not revised by most of its members till today.nPress<\/b>
\u201cEyebrow-raising moments come via the often surprisingly unenlightened racial attitudes aired even today by veterans of the Fassbinder circus who’ve lived to tell the tale (albeit in contradictory versions). Still invested in preserving their own roles in a now-legendary era, several seem eager to belittle supposed bit players like Salem.\u201d<\/i> Variety<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the film itself courageously deals with the racism of post-war German society, its makers reproduced the insensibility and invention of the Other, fantasizing their own \u2018Salem’. Collage-like, through interviews and archive material, My Name Is Not Ali uncovers the invention of El Hedi Ben Salem by the Fassbinder troupe, an image not revised by most of its members till today.\u201d<\/i> AfriCinenCast<\/b>
Mohamed El-Hedi Ben Salem (Jarrary) worker, actor, night watch (\u2020 1976)
Abd El-Kader Jarrary teacher
Najat GhribiHamdan Jarrary trader
Zakia Jarrary housewife
Zeina Jarrary housewife
Hafsia Mellaim housewife
Reqaya Zkoura teacher
Chadhlia Zkoura cleaning woman
Ahmed Lecomte (Mellaim) businessman
Renate Leiffer assistant director
Irm Hermann actress
Karl Scheydt actor (\u2020 2009)
Hans Hirschm\u00fcller actor
Rudolf Waldemar Brem actor
Thea Eym\u00e9sz film editor
Nikolas Notter judge retd.& lawyer
Marie Odile Notter psycho-sociologist retd.
Kurt Raab set designer & actor (\u2020 1988)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder film\/theatre director & actor (\u2020 1982)<\/p>\n
About the director<\/b>
German-Egyptian film scholar and filmmaker Viola Shafik has directed documentaries including \u201cThe Lemon Tree\u201d, \u201cPlanting of Girls\u201d, and \u201cMy Name is Not Ali\u201d.nShe studied Arts, Middle Eastern Studies and Movie Sciences in Stuttgart and Hamburg. Between 1998 and 2005 she gave lectures at the American University in Cairo in which she focused in particular on film production, introduction to filmarts, movie genres, introduction to the documentation as well as the history of the Arabic film. nShafik is also the author of the books \u201cPopular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class, and Nation\u201c and \u201cArab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity\u201c. Since it was first published in 1998, \u201cCinema: History and Cultural Identity\u201d has become an indispensable work for scholars of film and the contemporary Middle East. nCombining detailed narrative history, economic, ideological, and aesthetics with thought-provoking analysis, \u201cArab Cinema\u201d provides a comprehensive overview of cinema in the Arab world, tracing the industry\u2019s development from colonial times to the present. nSince 2007 Shafik is a jury member of the al-Rawi Screenwriters Lab (Royal Film Commission, Jordan), the World Cinema Fund (Berlinale), and the Dubai Film Connection.nMy Name is NOT Ali
Viola Shafik, <\/b>Germany\/Egypt, 2011, Original with English subtitles, 94 min
Date: Sat. 23. February
Time: 19h00
Entrance: 30,- N$
Venue: Goethe-Centre, Auditorium<\/b><\/p>\n
The film series African Perspectives is supported by the Franco Namibian Cultural Centre, WhatsOnWindhoek, and the Goethe-Centre Windhoek. <\/i>nThis screening is made possible with financial assistance by the Finnish Embassy in Windhoek and with support of MEC Film and the Goethe Institute Munich.
<\/i>n\u00a9 Copyright AfricAvenir 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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