Screening Mondial 2010 &

Talk with Director Roy Dib Moderated by Fatma Çolakoğlu

Mondial 2010

2014 / 19’30’’ / Arabic with English subtitles
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED by Roy Dib
CAST: Abed Kobeissy, Ziad Chakaroun
SOUND ENGINEER: Fadi Tabbal and Stephane Reeves (Tunefork Recording Studios)

Mondial 2010 is a discussion of institutional borders in modern day Middle East. It uses video as an apparatus to transgress boundaries that are inflicted on people in spite of them. It is a travel movie in a trajectory that doesn’t allow travel, starring two male lovers, in a setting where homosexuality is a punishable felony. Shot with a hand-held camcorder, Mondial 2010 borrows the aesthetics of a travel video log. It normalizes the abnormal, and by doing so creates its own universe of possibility. It is a shift from the mainstream passive view of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict that places the victim/oppressor in the forefront of the produced imagery. This video glides over this conflict with an upper hand.