The cinema of Mosul

Territoires cinématographiques is a dialogue between live performance and cinema, devised in collaboration with Utopia cinemas in Avignon. It’s a daily programme of film screenings, after which the public meet and talk with theatre artists, choreographers, filmmakers, activists, critics and journalists invited to the Festival d’Avignon. This space explores the intimate relationships that these guests maintain between disciplines and with the world. It’s a place to take a broader look at the themes brought to the stage, the territories of the guest language and by the Café des idées. 

Eight short films by students from the Mosul Film School.

Iraq // Documentary // 2021 // 1h

Milo Rau, director and artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen, invites the audience to watch eight short films created with students from the Mosul Film School. These young filmmakers roamed the streets to document the scars of Mosul and the hardships affecting its society.