The 4th edition of Middle East: What Can Cinema Do was talked about in numerous media.

50 films during 12 days are programmed for the 4th edition. Documentaries are in the majority, but more fiction is being presented than ever before including four "premieres". Two-thirds of the films are feature or TV length films, complemented by another fifteen short films. Here follows a country by country glimpse at the film program.

A full program of debates, one each night, featuring Leila Shahid, Michel Warschawski, Dominique Vidal, Hassan Balawi, Christian Chesnot, Esther Benbassa,  Jean-Paul Chagnollaud and very special guests Joseph Algazy (picutred here), reputed Haaretz journalist, and Stéphane Hessel, diplomat, ambassador and French resistant.

Anne Paq has been photographing Palestine since 2003. She is the photographer behind the photo illustrated in our poster for the 2009 edition.

Two years ago, our editorial opened with the words: From anguish to hope. Since then, as far as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is concerned, the situation has worsened.

A message from the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, and the President of the Centre National du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Véronique Cayla

Meet the people and organizations behind the event.