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Cinema at Casa Árabe
From January 20, 2017 until February 24, 20178:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
8:00 p.m.
€4 when purchased online, €5 general entrance ticket at the box office.
Our latest schedule of film screenings to be held in this new year of 2017.
Casa Árabe’s new schedule of film series is beginning for 2017 with two productions from Spain and another from Israel, all recently premiered. They include two fictional feature films and one documentary focusing on three very different topics. Bar Bahar, the feature film debut by Palestinian filmmaker Maysaloun Hamoud, was the most award-winning film at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Its director’s courage allows us to become familiar with the Palestinian underground movement today, through three female characters. The modern spirituality of the recently premiered film Mimosas, by Oliver Laxe, was the winner in the Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival. Last of all, in his feature length documentary La Fabulosa Casablanca (Fabulous Casablanca), Manuel Horrillo manages to show us the real Casablanca and the fabulous through the testimony of local residents who were forced to leave the city, whose true history continues to be greatly unknown.
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Bar Bahar
January 20, 20178:00 p.m.MADRIDCasa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). 8:00 p.m. €4 when purchased online, €5 general entrance ticket at the box office.We are opening this year’s first film series with the movie Bar Bahar.Leila, Nour and Salma are three Palestinian citizens of Israel who live in Tel Aviv, where they share an apartment and life experiences. Bar Bahar (Between Two Worlds) shows us the duality to which the three young women are subjected in their everyday lives, trapped between tradition and life in the big city, as well as the price they must pay for a lifestyle that most consider normal: the freedom to work, have fun and make their own choices. -
Mimosas
January 27, 20178:00 p.m.MADRIDCasa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). 8:00 p.m. €4 when purchased online, €5 general entrance ticket at the box office.he film’s director, Oliver Laxe, will be presenting Mimosas at the Casa Árabe headquarters in Madrid.A caravan crosses Morocco’s Atlas Mountains on a mission to take a dying patriarch to the village where he was born and hopes he can rest in peace at last. The trip is filled with unknowns, but Ahmed and Saïd, two young hustlers, assure that they know the way. In another place, and perhaps another time, Shakib, a jokester who works as a taxi driver, is recruited to carry out the task of watching over the caravan and make sure that the patriarch’s widow complies with the tribe’s promise. They grow disoriented and have to surmount the snow, being chased, attacks and kidnapping. In a plot twist reminiscent of Don Quixote, Shakib makes “the mules fly” to cross the treacherous mountains, using his faith to alter the fate of the expeditioners. -
Bar Bahar
February 03, 20178:00 p.m.MADRIDCasa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). 8:00 p.m. €4 when purchased online, €5 general entrance ticket at the box office.Repetition of this fiction film by Maysaloun Hamoud.Leila, Nour and Salma are three Palestinian citizens of Israel who live in Tel Aviv, where they share an apartment and life experiences. Bar Bahar (Between Two Worlds) shows us the duality to which the three young women are subjected in their everyday lives, trapped between tradition and life in the big city, as well as the price they must pay for a lifestyle that most consider normal: the freedom to work, have fun and make their own choices. -
Fabulous Casablanca
February 10, 2017 8:00 p.m.MADRIDCasa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). 8:00 p.m. €4 when purchased online, €5 general entrance ticket at the box office.The film’s director, Manuel Horrillo, will be presenting the film at the Casa Árabe headquarters in Madrid.Casablanca’s name evokes romance, the fight for freedom and magic. However, this most universal city hides many stories, including that of a Spanish community which was vital to turning Casablanca into France’s colonial pearl. -
Mimosas
February 17, 20178:00 p.m.MADRIDCasa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). 8:00 p.m. €4 when purchased online, €5 general entrance ticket at the box office.Second screening of this film by Oliver Laxe.A caravan crosses Morocco’s Atlas Mountains on a mission to take a dying patriarch to the village where he was born and hopes he can rest in peace at last. The trip is filled with unknowns, but Ahmed and Saïd, two young hustlers, assure that they know the way. In another place, and perhaps another time, Shakib, a jokester who works as a taxi driver, is recruited to carry out the task of watching over the caravan and make sure that the patriarch’s widow complies with the tribe’s promise. They grow disoriented and have to surmount the snow, being chased, attacks and kidnapping. In a plot twist reminiscent of Don Quixote, Shakib makes “the mules fly” to cross the treacherous mountains, using his faith to alter the fate of the expeditioners. -
Fabulous Casablanca
February 24, 20178:00 p.m.MADRIDCasa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). 8:00 p.m. €4 when purchased online, €5 general entrance ticket at the box office.The final screening in our first film series of 2017.Casablanca’s name evokes romance, the fight for freedom and magic. However, this most universal city hides many stories, including that of a Spanish community which was vital to turning Casablanca into France’s colonial pearl.
