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DIRECTORA

HEBA KHALED

SINOPSIS

People of the Wasteland es un cortometraje experimental en primera persona que representa los enfrentamientos de combatientes sirios en la línea del frente. En el caos de la guerra, las líneas entre el bien y el mal se vuelve borroso. Este metraje exclusivo de Go-Pro desde el interior

La guerra pretende recordarnos que en un territorio donde el paisaje y la gente son efímera debido a la guerra, sólo la cámara puede permanecer viva, y sólo la imagen de un cierto momento puede permanecer eterno.

ESTRENO

VALÈNCIA

FESTIVALES

Official selections:
09.03.2018 * THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAl (Official Selection, World Premiere, Thessaloniki, Greece)

30.05.2018 * KRAKOW FILM FESTIVAL (Short competition, Krakow, Poland)

21.07.2018 * GUANAJUATO FILM FESTIVAL (Short experimental competition, Guanajuato, Mexico)

03.08.2018 * RUDNIK INT’L FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Rudnik, Russian Federation)

21.08.2018 * MAKEDOX FESTIVAL (Short Dox, Skopje, Macedonia) *“SLICED ONION” AWARD FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM*

15.12.2018 * 3rd BERLIN LIBERI FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Berlin, Germany)

19.01.2019 * 1st INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF SRIGANGANAGAR (Official Selection, Sriganganagar, India) *SPECIAL MENTION – DIRECTOR*

21.01.2019 * 4th SHORT DAYS / IL VARCO FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Rome, Italy)

11.03.2019 * 15th ZAGREBDOX (Official Selection, Zagreb, Croatia)

13.03.2019 * 5th BEESTON FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Beeston Nottingham, United Kingdom)

14.03.2019 * 14th MOSTRA DE CINEMA ÁRABE FEMININO (Official Selection, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

30.04.2019 * 28th MEDIAWAVE – ANOTHER CONNECTION INTERNATIONAL FILM AND MUSIC (Official Selection, Györ, Hungary)

30.05.2019 * 8th THE PEOPLE’S FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, New York, NY, USA)

05.06.2019 * 17th ONE SHOT INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Yerevan, Armenia) *JURY SPECIAL MENTION*

07.06.2019 * 47th FESTIVAL INT’L DE CINE DE HUESCA (Official Selection, Huesca, Spain) *FIRST INT’L DANZANTE AWARD*

08.06.2019 * 47th FESTIVAL OF NATIONS (Official Selection, Weyregg, Austria)

10.06.2019 * 5th DIVERSIONS INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Sveti Ivan Zelina, Croatia) *PAX DIVERSITY AWARD*

07.07.2019 * 14th SOLE LUNE DOC FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Palermo, Italy)

11.07.2019 * 5th MONTEVIDEO WORLD FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Montevideo, Uruguay)

25.07.2019 * 4th SACRAMENTO UNDERGROUND FILM & ARTS FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Sacramento, CA, USA)

26.07.2019 * 8th HOLYWOOD SERBIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Boljkovci, Serbia)

29.07.2019 * 6th MELGAÇO INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Melgaço, Viana do Castelo, Portugal)

07.08.2019 * 14th ARAB FILM FESTIVAL OF BRAZIL (Official Selection, São Paulo, Brasil)

08.08.2019 * 43rd OPEN AIR FILMFEST WEITERSTADT (Official Selection, Weiterstadt, Germany)

15.08.2019 * 4th STILL VOICES SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Ballymahon, Co. Longford, Ireland) *BEST NON-FICTION FILM*

24.08.2019 * 1st CASTROVILLARI FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, CastrovillarI, Italy) *BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT* *BEST EDITING* 3

03.10.2019 * 14th SOLE LUNE DOC FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Santa Maria dello Spasimo, Italy)

04.10.2019 * 16th SEDICICORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Forlì, Italy)

05.10.2019 * 5th MINIKINO FILM WEEK (Official Selection, Bali, Indonesia)

06.11.2019 * 10th BAKU INT’L SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Baku, Azerbaijan)

08.11.2019 * 8th WINCHESTER FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Winchester, United Kingdom)

22.11.2019 * 13th LUBLIN FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Lublin, Poland)

24.11.2019 * 4th FIORENZO SERRA FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Sassari, Italy)

06.12.2019 * 21st MADURAI INT’L DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Madurai, India)



HEBA KHALED

Heba Khaled nació en Damasco en 1986 y estudió Literatura Árabe en la Universidad de Damasco. Trabajó como comentarista de radio y como reparadora independiente para CNN, Al Arabiya y Reuters en Damasco y Beirut entre 2011 y 2013. En 2014, comenzó a recopilar imágenes para su primer cortometraje People of the Wasteland. El mismo año se traslada a Berlín, donde ayuda al cineasta Talal Derki en la dirección de su película Of Fathers and Sons, que ha ganado el Gran Premio del Jurado de Cine Mundial del Festival de Cine de Sundance en 2018 y la nominación al Oscar al mejor documental 2019.