Co-Producing the Memory. Cinema Production between Europe and the Middle East

Irit Neidhardt is a distributor and co-producer for films exclusively from the Middle East. Among others, she distributes works by Hany Abu Assad, Michel Khleifi. Tawfik Abu Wael, Amos Gitai and Eyal Sivan. She is associate producerof Mahmoud al Massad’s award winning feature-documentary RECYCLE (Jordan/Netherlands/Germany/Switzerland/France/USA) and co-producer of Simon el-Habre’s highly acclaimed THE ONE MAN VILLAGE (Lebanon). She worked as consultant for Tamer el-Said’s THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY (Egypt) as well as for the cinematic adaptation of Sayed Kashua’s LET IT BE MORNING (Palestine/France).