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Drifting (2014)

Duration: 10:38    Category: Libya   

Post Gaddafi, drifting cars become a national passion for young male Libyans. Mohamed loves his job in the BMW junkyard providing parts and mechanical advice to drifters. However the mix of guns and burning tire may just take drifting into another level.

Screening Formats: DVD, HD Quicktime, BluRay

Highlights:
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Locarno Film Festival 2015
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Beirut International Film Festival 2015
SCREENED AT – Middle East Film Festival 2015 – (France)
SCREENED AT – Glasgow Short Film Festival Video Library 2016 (UK)

Libya in Motion Compilation Screened at:

Dubai Film Market 2015 (Dubai)
Festival du Film Documentaire de Saint-Louis 2015 (Senegal)
One World 2016 (Czech Republic)
El Espejo IFF 2016 (Columbia)
Document 2016 (UK)
Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema – “Ban This Series”, March 2017 (Canada)
Seventh Art Stand Screenings, May/June 2017 (USA):
Browning Cinema, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
The Nightlight Cinema, Akron, Ohio
Anthology Film Archive, New York
Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii
Casa Arabe – November 2019, Cordoba (Spain)

To arrange a screening contact: festivals@scotdoc.com

DIRECTOR: Samer S. Omar
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Noe Mendelle & Anne Milne
DOP: Hazem Ennayed, Ahmed Aboub, Mohamed Mustafa
EDITOR/SOUND: Abdelbasset Edres
BRITISH COUNCIL LIBYA: Awatef Shawish, Adam Geddal
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