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The Salesman (2012)

Duration: 04:22    Category: Benghazi   

A quirky, enigmatic car salesman is happy to fob off his desperate clients with old cars as long as the wheels and the body look new. Could that be a metaphor for the Libyan government when you live in Benghazi?

Screening Formats: Digi-Beta, DVD

Highlights:
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Jihlava Film Festival 2013
OFFICIAL SELECTION – EcransMed Montreal 2013
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Zagrebdox 2013
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Shnit International Short Film Festival 2013

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: Ibrahim Algouri CAMERA: Mohamed Algweel SOUND: Abdalleh Elsaid EDITOR: Naziha Arebi EDITING CONSULTANT: Anne Milne EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Noe Mendelle & Flore Cosquer PROJECT MANAGER FOR BRITISH COUNCIL LIBYA: Awatef Shawish
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