Hizam (Belt)

  • Hizam (Ceinture) - حزام
© nunfilm
Genre : Biography
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Dance, Intercultural/migrations, Poetry / story telling
Year of production : 2016
Format : Feature
Running time : 86 (in minutes)
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Over 16 years,  An Algerian male eye on femininity and dancing.

A film with Algerian dancer and Martial Arts Champion Assia Guemra and Syrian film director Mohamad Malas.
Algerian film director Hamid Benamra makes free independant films since he was 17 in 1981.





"The camera serves the movement, anticipates every look and adjusts to every step", AL AHRAM WEEKLY (Egypt)

"Hizam is not about dance, but about life and death", THE ARAB WEEKLY (UK)

"2016 : Hizam & Reveries of the Solitary Actor", AL FADJR (Algeria)

"Assia Guemra, the dancer & Mohamad Malas, the elder brother", AL KAHERA (Egypt)

"exceptional pictures of civilizational mixing", ALRAI (Jordan)

"Women are the missing stars of our screens", ALBILAD (Bahrain)

"A filmmaker should be like a scarab who never gives up", CIFF BULLETIN (Egypt) 

"a high-level artistic style, his films know no borders", ASHARQ AL-AWSAT (UK)

"the belt is not formal", AL FADJR (Algeria)





"celebrates, with intelligence and courage, the body, the beauty, women and freedom", REPORTERS (Algeria) 

"A poem to women who shaped me as a man", NIKKANBERITA (Japan)


Summary for official catalogues



Male identity, before brandishing the national colors should raise a banner with no colors since it wears them all, the female banner.

 
For 16 years,  the camera has been catching a feminity searching for itself.

This is not an dancing abecedarium nor a brochure of playmates, nor a feminist petition, women here confide serenely and freely.

 

Assia Guemra had the France Taekwondo championship before she became a dancer, a   discipline where the color of the belt does not matter if you cannot face your opponent.

In Middle-Eastern dancing, the belt is not a nightclub accessory nor a cinematographic lure but gives its tempo to the belly. 

 

The filmmaker comes close to the womb that carried him and to the body where he finds refuge in and understands that the woman is his mirror.

Organizations

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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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