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Arab cinema returns to Cordoba 

From November 08, 2019 until December 20, 20198:00 p.m.
CORDOBA
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9). 8:00 p.m. Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
Films shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.

During the months of November and December, Casa Árabe will be screening eight films at its Andalusian headquarters, including documentaries and fictional films that can be seen on Fridays at 8:00 p.m.

During these sessions, we will be showing the documentary films Rebuilding, life, love, memories, by Carole Alfarah, (Spain, Syria, 2019, 27’); En esas tierras (In Those Lands) by Nayra Sanz Fuentes (Spain, 2018, 12’); Jardines Palestinos (Palestinian Gardens), by AJ+ (Mexico, 2015); Yallah, yallah, by Fernando Romanazzo and Cristian Pirovano (Argentina, Palestine, 2018, 75’), and Beirut. La vie en rose, by Èric Motjer (Spain, 2019, 73’), as well as the fictional films: The Insult (L’insulte), by Ziad Doueiri (France, 2017,110’); The Healer, by Mohamed Zineddaine (Morocco, Italy, Qatar, 2018, 110’), and Yomeddine, by A.B. Shawky (Egypt, 2018, 93’).

In addition to this film series, on Friday, November 22 at 8:00 p.m., we will be screening “Libya in Motion,” a selection of short-subject films by a group of Libyan filmmakers, made thanks to contributions by the British Council and the Scottish Documentary Institute. With works by: Naziha Arebi, Ibrahim El Mayet, Anas El Gomati, Ibrahim Y. Shebani, Ibrahim Algouri, Farag Akwedir, Omar Bushiha, Farag Al-Sharif, Mohannad Eissa, Samer S. Omar, Alaa Hassan Saneed, Kelly Ali, Ahmed Aboub, Samer S. Omar and Naimi Own. This film screening has been scheduled as an activity held in conjunction with the exhibition “Tracking a Vanishing Landscape: Contemporary creation in Libya,” which you can see at Casa Árabe’s exhibition halls in Cordoba until the upcoming date of January 8, 2020.

Film series information sheet
Arab cinema returns to Cordoba 
Fotograma de "El insulto"
  • “In Those Lands” and “Yomeddine” 

    “In Those Lands” and “Yomeddine” 

    November 08, 20198:00 p.m.
    CORDOBA
    Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9). 8:00 p.m. Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
    Films shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
    On this first day during the autumn film series in Cordoba, we will be showing a double feature, with the screening of one documentary and one fictional feature film.
    In Those Lands, by Nayra Sanz Fuentes (Spain, 2018, 12’) Documentary
    Those lands belong to the people who once inhabited them, who inhabit them now, and the people who will one day occupy them. They open a window onto the relationship between man and nature, violence and culture, the material and the divine, change and permanence... Nayra Sanz Fuentes, a director, screenwriter, editor and producer, takes us on a journey to a lemon tree grove in southern Spain and uses poetic language to reflect upon the arrival of this fruit on the Iberian Peninsula thanks to the Arabs in the eighth century, and upon the complex way in which our identities are constructed.
    Preview

    Yomeddine, by A.B. Shawky (Egypt, 2018, 93’)
    Beshay has never gone outside of the leper colony where he was abandoned as a boy. After his wife’s death, he decides to gather his few belongings and set off in search of his roots along with Obama, a young orphan who joins him on his quest. Beshay crosses Egypt in search of his family and origins, standing up to the world and surmounting every difficulty that gets in his way, but also enjoying the nice moments which the journey provides him. “Yomeddine” is the debut film by Abu Bakr Shawky, a young director of Egyptian cinema educated in New York, considered so excellent that his first work was selected at Cannes.
    Preview

    Film series information sheet

  • “Beirut, La vie en rose”

    “Beirut, La vie en rose”

    November 15, 20198:00 p.m.
    CORDOBA
    Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9). 8:00 p.m. Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
    Films shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
    The screenings continue at our Cordoba headquarters, with this documentary by Èric Motjer, in which we will take our first look at the lives of four members of the Christian elite in Lebanon.
    Beirut, La vie en rose, by Èric Motjer (Spain, 2019, 73’) Documentary
    Beirut, la vie en rose takes a look for the first time into the lives of four of the most important members of Lebanon’s Christian elite and provides a unique portrait of the relationships existing between power, religion and conflict. In one of the most politically unstable regions in the world, the main characters are the latest representatives of a Lebanon which used to be seen as the “Switzerland of the Near East.” The members of the Christian elite have attempted to keep hold of the privileges they had during the golden years after the country’s independence, through intense social lives, sumptuous parties and extravagance. However, in a country which seems fated to undergo cyclical episodes of conflict, instability and change, there is something they can no longer ignore: the inevitable end of an era... their era.
    Preview

    Film series information sheet
  • Libya in Motion

    Libya in Motion

    November 22, 20198:00 p.m.
    CORDOBA
    Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9). 8:00 p.m. Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
    Films shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
    This week, we are showing a selection of short-subject films by a group of Libyan filmmakers, made with the cooperation of the British Council and the Scottish Documentary Institute.
    We will be showing works by: Naziha Arebi, Ibrahim El Mayet, Anas El Gomati, Ibrahim Y. Shebani, Ibrahim Algouri, Farag Akwedir, Omar Bushiha, Farag Al-Sharif, Mohannad Eissa, Samer S. Omar, Alaa Hassan Saneed, Kelly Ali, Ahmed Aboub, Samer S. Omar and Naimi Own.

    This film screening has been scheduled as an activity held in conjunction with the exhibition  Tracking a Vanishing Landscape: Contemporary creation in Libya, which you can see at the exhibition halls in our Cordoba headquarters until January 8, 2020.

    Film series information sheet
  • “Palestinian Gardens” and “Yallah, Yallah” 

    “Palestinian Gardens” and “Yallah, Yallah” 

    November 29, 20198:00 p.m.
    CORDOBA
    Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9). 8:00 p.m. Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
    Films shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
    At this double feature session, you will get the chance to enjoy two documentaries which show us different aspects of everyday life in Palestine. 
    Jardines Palestinos (Palestinian Gardens), by AJ+ (Mexico, 2015);
    Palestine has had its lands taken away, even those used for farming crops. But the country’s city dwellers refuse to stop taking care of their plots of land.
    Preview
    Screening held with the cooperation of: AJ+ Español (Mexico).

    Yallah, yallah, by Fernando Romanazzo and Cristian Pirovano (Argentina, Palestine, 2018, 75’)
    Yallah, Yallah is the first Argentine-Palestinian co-production. Filmed mostly in the West Bank, the documentary follows the everyday lives of seven of the members of a local soccer team, showing how hard it is for them to practice this sport played in streets and stadiums, also representing a passion for the Palestinians, a tool they can use to show themselves to the world, thus holding onto their dignity. A people and their struggle.
    Preview

    Film series information sheet
  • “Rebuilding, life, love, memories” and “The Insult”

    “Rebuilding, life, love, memories” and “The Insult”

    December 13, 20198:00 p.m.
    CORDOBA
    Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9). 8:00 p.m. Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
    Films shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
    Like every Friday, a new film screening is being held at our Cordoba headquarters. This week, there will be a documentary and a full-length fiction film.
    Rebuilding, life, love, memories, by Carole Alfarah, (Spain, Syria, 2019, 27’) Documentary
    This documentary film, directed, narrated, produced, filmed and edited by Carole Alfarah, shows us the real life stories of three Syrian refugees in Germany, Denmark and Sweden after having fled from the war in their country to start a new life in in Europe. Carole, a Syrian visual storyteller, producer and multimedia editor based in Madrid and Beirut, uses visual narratives to deal with social and humanitarian topics. Her works have been shown in many different media, and at institutions, international NGOs and press photography agencies.
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    The Insult (L’insulte), by Ziad Doueiri (France, 2017,110’) Fiction
    An argument which comes about during a trivial incident lands Toni and Yasser in court. A poorly timed insult is the beginning of a huge conflict, which eventually turns into a nationally covered case that opens old wounds back up: a collision between different cultures and religions for which only tolerance can provide a solution. Ziad Doueiri, known for important films that deal with the conflict in the Middle East, including West Beirut, from 1998, and The Attack, from 2012, with The Insult, has created a socio-political parable in which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies beneath.
    Preview 

     
  • The Healer 

    The Healer 

    December 20, 20198:00 p.m.
    CORDOBA
    Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9). 8:00 p.m. Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
    Films shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
    Final screening in the film series in Cordoba, and last in the year, with this fictional feature film by Mohamed Zineddaine in which three characters’ fates will end up colliding.
    The Healer, by Mohamed Zineddaine (Morocco, Italy, Qatar, 2018, 110’) Fiction
    On the outskirts of a mining town, young Abdou attempts to learn how to read and write. His adoptive mother Mbarka, the local healer, tries to protect her position of privilege by using the laws of obscurantism. Chaayba, an excentric, thief, suffers from a skin disease and ends up visiting Mbarka in search of a cure. Like three spinning carousels, these characters’ fates end up colliding on the same path. The story is presented like a Greek tragedy in which three characters’ lives are woven together, while showing a new reality in a country where women are attempting to play a more visible, egalitarian role.
    Preview

    Film series information sheet

    Screening held with the cooperation of: Fundación Tres Culturas, LatinArab - Cine Fértil.