Hakawati, the latest storytellers

  • Hakawati, les derniers conteurs
Genre : Drama
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2020
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 52 (in minutes)

Radi and Mounira, a 65-year-old puppeteer couple, set off on tour between Israel and Palestine in their out-of-date van. They are exhausted from having to go up and down the stage, playing three shows in a row in front of hundreds of raging children under a burning sky. Lost in Jericho, frightened by the bombs falling near Majd Al Shams, destabilized by the Bedouin children of the Negev unable to determine their own identity, they no longer know if their mission is still relevant. To save the identity of their people through their shows, but at what price? A quest for Palestinian identity.

Screenplay: Karim Dridi, Julien Gaertner
Editing: Paul Pirritano
Sound: Firas Shehadeh, Tom Allibert-Bardoux

Producer: Mirak Films, with the support of Région SUD, Via Occitanie, Via Vosges, Tenk, Al Jazeera

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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