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Resettlement – Frontline Club http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com Championing Independent Journalism Mon, 19 May 2014 21:00:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 KINOTEKA Screening: Abu Haraz + Q&A http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/abu-haraz/ http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/abu-haraz/#respond Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:02:42 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/?p=41259 Maciej Drygas observed and documented the daily life of Abu Haraz's citizens as they protested against the construction of the dam and eventually got ready to be relocated to a place unknown to them. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Maciej Drygas.]]> This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Maciej Drygas.

Abu Haraz

Abu Haraz can no longer be found on the map. The changing of seasons and flow of the river used to mark the rhythm of life in this village, but the construction of a dam on the Nile changed that for good. The small North Sudanese village now wallows under 35 meters of water in the middle of an artificial lake, 180 kilometres long.

For seven years, filmmaker Maciej Drygas observed and documented daily life in Abu Haraz as its citizens protested against the construction of the dam and eventually got ready to be relocated to a place unknown to them. 

Their new village is a settlement raised in the middle of the desert. Drygas‘s observational film offers a sensitive and intimate testimony of a local reality, which also addresses bigger questions about the place of traditions in a modernising globalised world.

Directed by Maciej Drygas
Duration: 73′
Year: 2013

This screening is part of the 12th Polish Film Festival KINOTEKA

KINOTEKA

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