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Courtesy of Ji.hlava Film Festival “6TM,” directed by Karim Akalay and produced by Walid Bekhti, won the New Visions Award for the most promising European project at the Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival on Friday. The film is described as “a Belgian family comedy in three chapters, rooted in magic realism and the resilience of a community.”
In the film, which is set over one scorching summer in the Cité Modèle, Brussels’ largest housing project, three stories unfold across one family. Two kids chase a magic lamp to keep their wheelchair-using friend from being forced out by broken elevators. A teenage girl builds a team of misfits for a soccer tournament. A mother rallies her neighbors to uncover who stole the rain.
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