Berlin Premiere of the Award-Winning Moroccan Movie “Les Mécréants” (The Miscreants) with Director Mohcine Besri in Attendance, Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 8 pm, Hackesche Höfe Kino

AfricAvenir  e.V. would like to invite you to the Hackesche Höfe Cinema to the Berlin Premiere of the award-winning movie „Les Mécréants” (The Miscreants, Original Arabic with German Subtitles) in the presence of the Moroccan director Mohcine Besri on Thursday, 12 December at 8 pm. On the order of their spiritual leader, three young Islamists kidnap a group of actors who are about to go on tour with their latest show. When the kidnappers arrive at the place of detention, they find themselves cut off from their base. Ensues a 7-day no exit situation, in which both sides are forced to live together, confront each other and challenge their mutual prejudices…

“This “closed society” refrains consciously from any caricature or black and white thinking. Because of the confrontation of the unstoppable libertarian elan with the religious obscurantism he deals with the “Arab spring” and at the same time defends an important ontological principle: The value of a human being cannot be measured on hand of his beard or her mini skirt.” Antoine Duplan, Le Temps, SuissenFollowing the screening there will be an audience talk with director Mohcine Besri as well as a small reception in the foyer of the cinema.

With support from Brot für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst and from Engagement Global with resources of the BMZ and in cooperation with Africiné, Allacine, dem Club der Freunde von RFI, Berlin Poche, |+| rendez-vous-cine.de, Exberliner, multicult.fm, Art Labour Archives, Humboldt Universität, Zentrum Moderner Orient and Planète Métis.n

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Regisseur Mohcine Besri über seinen Film:
„On the one side … men who can’t stand their daily conditions and the absence of a better future’s perspective, lost within Morocco, a country in total upheaval trying to embrace modernity; that modernity they refuse and oppose vehemently, shutting themselves off in religious obscurantism. On the other side… men and women, from respective backgrounds, bearing the same lot, fighting the same corruption, but to whom modernity is neither a gadget, nor a political tagline.Taking advantage of the glimpse of freedom trickling from the country’s changes, their cultural activism is not more efficient than the former’s religious extremism, but by acting openly, it is (nevertheless) beneficial. nThese two sides don’t usually get to truly meet, their respective prejudice against their opponents preventing each to see the human being under the long beard or the mini-skirt. The Miscreants proposes such a meeting; with seven days of forced proximity, certainty invariably leads to doubts, because they are each unique human beings, and mostly because their common denominator outweighs their differences. nThe Miscreants offers an inventory on the eve of a certain Arabic Spring, which to me is only a logical follow-up, in countries where people, like everywhere else, only aspire to one single thing, live in peace with dignity."

Pressestimmen
„A drama staged with a lot of humanity and which skillfully plays with the ambiguity of good and bad. So skillfully that one can only be astonished that this is the first feature movie by Mohcine Besri.” Pascal Gavillet, Tribune de Genève

“Les Mécréants, a movie which questions us and invites you to question your prejudices. Because of its courage this movie will be disturbing all those who think they detain absolute truths.” Doaa Sultane, Tahrir news, Egypte.nÜber den Regisseuren
Born in Meknes, Morocco in 1971, Mohcine Besri studied Physics and Chemistry at the Faculty of Rabat, while making his first steps in the arts by playing small parts in various movies. He later left to Switzerland where he completed his bachelor degree in Computer Science and worked in finance, before becoming a mathematics teacher. In parallel, he pursued his passion for cinema and became a script writer and director. Further to several experiences as Assistant Director, he directed two short films, was a co-writer of “Operation Casablanca” with Swiss director Laurent Nègre, before writing his first feature film “Les Mécréants”.

Preisen

• Best first Feature, National Film Festival, Tangier, Morocco 2012
• Special mention of the jury, FAMECK, France 2012
• Special mention of the jury, Cinédays, festival of european films, 2012
• Best Arab film, Cario international film festival, 2012
• The Jury Award, Malmö Arab Film Festival 2013
• The Jury Award, Oran Arab Film Fesival  2013

nBerlin premiere
Les Mécréants (The Unbelievers, original with German subtitles)
Mohcine Besri, feature, Morocco/Switzerland, 2012, 88 min., original Arabic with German subtitles
With: Jamila El Haouni, Maria Lalouaz, Omar Lotfi, Amine Ennaji, Abdenbi El BeniOUi, Aïssam Bouali, Rabii Benjhail, Mostapha El Houari

Thursday, 12 December 2013, 8 pm
Admission: 7,50€
Tickets Reservation: 030/283 4603
Discounts: Berlinpass, Gildepass, Heavy User Card (5 or 10-visits-tickets can be shared among two persons), Film Series-Pass

Hackesche Höfe Kino
Rosenthalerstr. 40/41
10187 Berlin
S Hackescher Markt
U Weinmeisterstraße

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