Hatem’s Diaries

Sincerely I can’t find the words, after 40 years of the Carthage Cinematographic Festival the edition 2006 looks to be the worst and promising even the worse for the future of Cinema in Tunisia. First of all we don’t have really cinema in Tunisia, beside few films that we all know, and that we cannot watch with family. Personally I saw because I thought it was Tunisian and discovered later that it is not, the kind of cinema that want to attract you with stupid ideas, grabbing problems from the society that might shock you, nudity and kisses, to make a final piece of shit not of art. I’m sorry.

I didn’t see any film from the JCC of this year, thanks god, but I’m trying to following the news and feedbacks from many different sources. What shocked me this year that even public isn’t satisfied with the organization of the JCC and the films participating especially Tunisian ones. The kind of cinema that cannot become an industry such Egypt for example, and of course can’t progress to show at least some of the great values of our society and culture before it disappear.

Something else that you should notice are the JCC 2006 sponsors : Arte, TV5Monde, MosaiqueFM, BienVu, Khawarizmi center, Tunisie Telecom ! Blah what’s that !! Is that all what you can grab as sponsors for such big event in north Africa and the Arab world ? Of course they’ll tell you we didn’t had time, no resources, nothing and the result is clear. Anyway I can understand if Tunisian sponsors refuses to support JCC 2006, putting their names and products behind films that don’t deserve.

It was an occasion to stop by the Tunisian cinema and see how it have progressed in the last years and in which direction. I don’t know names of the organization committee of this year, even the website is under construction in the last day of the JCC !!! Glad that today is the cloture and tomorrow prizes distribution, then game over.

I just noticed also that from the Tunisian blogosphere only Ismael blogged about the JCC, if someone else blogged about it drop me a message in comments. It’s another subject, but I don’t know why the event was without interest at all for the Tunisian blogosphere. Probably Hussein can give us more feedback on this ?

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