The Boston Globe
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Asharaf Dourgal, one of the children in a cinema workshop shown in director Oliver Laxe’s ‘‘You All Are Captains.’’
French filmmaker Oliver Laxe will present his first feature, “You All Are Captains,’’ made in collaboration with his Moroccan students in Tangier, at the Harvard Film Archive a week from Monday at 7 p.m. Since 2007, the 29-year-old filmmaker has run a cinema workshop at a shelter for impoverished children there, giving them access to 16mm stock and equipment. “You All Are Captains’’ (2010) follows Laxe as he tries to guide his students through the process of shooting a movie. The film-within-a-film raises serious questions about colonial relations and filmmaking and about what is real and what is fiction. Tickets are $12. The Harvard Film Archive is at 24 Quincy St., Cambridge. For more information, call 617-495-4700 or go to www.hcl.harvard.edu/hfa.
Modern family
Assi Azar is famous for hosting Israeli TV’s version of “Big Brother’’ and for his work as an openly gay activist. In 2009, Out magazine named him one of the 100 most influential gay people in the world Azar will be at the Brattle Theater today at 2 p.m. with his autobiographical documentary about coming out, “Mom & Dad, I Have Something to Tell You.’’ Presented by the Israeli consulate and the Boston LGBT Film Festival, the event features a discussion with Azar following the screening. For more information, go towww.brattlefilm.org.
