The magic of cinema classics is revived thanks to the restoration of old films. The fifth edition of ‘Cin\u00e9ma au Mus\u00e9e’, the film and cultural festival that will be running from 29 August to 1 September on the esplanade of the Sousse Archaeology Museum, is dedicated precisely to these \u2018old glories\u2019. Organised by the Association Cin\u00e9-Sud Patrimoine, with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Tunis, the Tunisian Ministry of Culture and TV5 MONDE, proposes many restored films in the section entitled “Image retrouv\u00e9es de la Tunisie” and in an exhibition \u00abIl \u00e9tait une fois l’image argentique\u00bb, on show at the Elbirou Art Gallery.<\/p>\n
The main feature of the festival\u2019s second day of screenings will be\u00a0\u201cC\u2019era una volta il West\u201d (\u201cOnce Upon a Time in the West\u201d) by Sergio Leone, the restored version of which will be presented by Claudia Cardinale, who played the leading role in the film and is an actress deeply tied to Tunisia, where she was born and raised.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The guest of honour of the opening night will be musician Marcel Khalife, who will be accompanied by Souraya Baghdadi, in paying homage to the great Lebanese film director Maroun Baghdadi with the screening of two of his short films \u201cAjmal oumahat\u201d (The Most Beautiful of All Mothers), \u201cKoulouna lil wattman\u201d (All for the Fatherlanda), with the soundtracks composed by Marcel Khalife at the beginning of his career.<\/p>\n
The Moroccan director Souheil Ben Barka will be present on 31 August to launch the world premiere of the restored version of his “Amok!”, a Moroccan-Senegalese-Guinean coproduction from the 1980s with Miriam Makeba.<\/p>\n
The Festival will close on 1 September with a tribute to the Palestinian director Michel Khleifi, with the screening of his restored film “Le conte des trois diamants”, and to the pioneer of Nigerian cinema, Moustapha Alassane, with a screening of his film “Le retour d’un aventurier”,\u200b an African-style Western.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The magic of cinema classics is revived thanks to the restoration of old films. The fifth edition of ‘Cin\u00e9ma au Mus\u00e9e’, the film and cultural festival that will be running from 29 August to 1 September on the esplanade of the Sousse Archaeology Museum, is dedicated precisely to these \u2018old glories\u2019. Organised by the Association […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[32,6],"class_list":["post-59936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}