IDFA 2007

MA Representation is proud to present three documentaries available at IDFA's 'Docs For Sale'.

Both Chanaika, The Girls That's Stronger Then Her Father, by Rotterdam film maker Victor Vroegindeweij and Moon And The Wolfgirl by Amsterdam based Sarah Domogola, are shot in a series of documantaries targeted towards children called Kids&Docs.

"The Arabian Dream" is a political documantary displaying the history of the Arabic world from an Arabian point of view shot and directed entirely by Syrian born Maher AlSabbagh.

All directors and producers of these documantaries will be available for meetings at IDFA 2007. If you're interested do contact us at:

Marcel Alexander Representation

Marcel Alexander Wiebenga
+31 6 24 21 67 20
marcel (at) ma-representation.com


Chanaika. (Kids&Docs)

Director: Victor Vroegindeweij
D.O.P: Jefrim Rothuizen
Editor: Tom Roza
Producer: Victor Vroegindeweij (Barbosa)

Synopsis
Chanaika's father physically abused her mother until she couldn't take it any longer. She single handedly showed her abusive father the door. But she doesn't let down easily! Chanaika's ultimate dream is to dance in front of a crowd of a million people during the Summercarnaval in Rotterdam. This summer her dreams will come true! Read More...

Moon and the wolfgirl. (Kids&Docs)

Director: Sarah Domogala
D.O.P: Daniel Bouquet
Editor: Chiel Andershoff
Producer: Gijs Kerbosch (100% Halal)

Synopsis
Moon is a ten year old girl. And Moon writes books. About a world where children can transform into animals and where magic and dark secrets reign. And she writes about Shadow. A girl who can transform into a wolf. Until Shadow, to her own dismay, eats her best friend. Read More...

The Arabian Dream.

Director: Maher Al Sabbagh
D.O.P: Maher Al Sabbagh
Editor:Maher Al Sabbagh & Roel van Toer
Producer: Maher Al Sabbagh

Synopsis
It must be a total drag when your background is constantly harassed in the media or being stepped on in daily conversations all around you.

Maher Al Sabbagh, a Dutch Syrian filmer decided to, instead of screaming 'You guys don't know what you're talking about!!!', make a film about the true origins of the arabic anger with the rest of the world, their struggle with ongoing colonisation, the israel-issue and the way radicalism began, but also about the story of Mohammed, the ever existing hunger for science and knowledge and the struggle the arabs have in finding each other in the pursuit of realising an old and maybe utopic dream: the realisation of a United Arabia. Read More...