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The Driving Lesson (2012)

Duration: 03:37    Category: Benghazi   

Driving schools in Benghazi have a huge waiting list so a desperate young female doctor agrees to be taught by her brother. Collisions don’t just happen outside!

Screening Formats: Digi-Beta, DVD

Highlights:
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Jihlava Film Festival 2013
OFFICIAL SELECTION – EcransMed Montreal 2013
OFFICIAL SELECTION – RedFrame Peterbrough International Film Festival 2014

Compilation Screened at:
Encounters 2013 (UK)
Yogyakarta Documentary Film Festival 2013 (Indonesia)

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: Omar Bushiha EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Noe Mendelle & Flore Cosquer DOP: Ahmad Alshereef EDITOR: Sufian Arara SOUND: Mohamed Elghazal EDITING CONSULTANT: Anne Milne PROJECT MANAGER FOR BRITISH COUNCIL LIBYA: Awatef Shawish
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