Casablanca Mon Amour - Screened at Dubai International Film Fest

Casablanca Mon Amour is a modern road movie that encapsulates the more complex and fractured nature of living in a world where TV and wars compete for headlines and occupy imaginations.

Casablanca Mon Amour offers more than a dry critique of the impact of media on culture. Instead, the film takes a human and humorous look at the effects Hollywood films have on people’s imaginations and affords Moroccan’s (our movie set ‘extras’) an opportunity to talk back—which they do in intelligent, witty and wildly ingenious ways.

Casablanca Mon Amour uses the process of movie making as a way of turning  the Great American Story on its head – and offering Hollywood and America story about itself.

Here is another interesting, witty and humourous film.

Filmed in Morocco!  79 mins !  In Arabic & French with English subtitles.

More pics and interview with the director John Slattery at: www.filmytown.com

Your Beauty is Worth Nothing...

This charming and thoughtful film is about a 12 year old Veysel, named for the legendary Turkish poet Asik Veysel, struggles to adapt to his new life in Austria.

At school he doesn’t speak the language while at home there continues to be tension amongst the various family members.

His only happy moments are when he thinks about Ana, a classmate he is secretly in love with and unable to communicate with.

Help comes in the unlikely form of a rough neighbour Cem who assists as Veysel sets out to win Ana’s heart.

Full review and interview of the director - HUSEYIN TABAK is at: www.filmytown.com 

TABOOR - Screened at the Dubai International Film Festival

Taboor is about a man who seeks to protect his hypersensitive body from the daily rise in temperature caused by pervasive electromagnetic waves.

He concocts an aluminum jump suit which he wears under abundant layers of clothing. Despite his fragile health, every evening he rides his motor cycle to keep appointments with his customers.

He works as a pest control man who destroys cockroach nests. After each mission the man plunges into the dark heart of the city, crisscrossing the far flung streets of a megapolis in which time has stood still and from which the tumult of the day has disappeared. While awaiting the dawn, he must confront the many intrigues of the night.

Full review and interview with the director Vahid Vakilifar at - www.filmytown.com