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Spring film screenings in Madrid

From April 10, 2015 until June 26, 2015
MADRID

Casa Árabe is screening six Arab films between the months of April and June

Spring film screenings in Madrid
  • Timbuktu

    Timbuktu

    April 10, 20157:30 p.m.
    MADRID
    Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). 7:30 p.m. Tickets: 3 euros for general tickets at the box office. 2 euros for tickets purchased online, the officially unemployed, Arab Language Center students and Youth Card holders.
    You must demonstrate your status by showing the proper document to receive the discount. You may only receive one discount. Assigned seats with tickets. On sale through the Casa Árabe website or the day of the screening at the Casa Árabe headquarters, as of one hour before the film begins.
    The films are shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
    Screening of the fictional film by Abderrahmane Sissako (France, 2014, original language version with Spanish subtitles, 96 min.).
    On the outskirts of Timbuktu, which has fallen into the hands of religious extremists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya and Issan, his 12-year-old son. In the city, the local inhabitants are suffering under the regime of repression imposed by the Jihadists. The women have become like shadows who attempt to survive with dignity. Every day, improvised tribunals issue sentences as absurd as they are tragic. 

    Cast: Ahmed Ibrahim dit Pino, Toulou Kiki, Abel Jafri, Hichem Yacoubi, Kettly Noël, Fatoumata Diawara

    Awards: Oscars: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film; 7 César Awards, including Best Film and Director; Cannes Film Festival: official section for competing feature films; Chicago Film Festival: Best Director; Satellite Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
  • Umm Kulthum, Star of the East (Oum Kalthoum, l’astre de l’Orient)

    Umm Kulthum, Star of the East (Oum Kalthoum, l’astre de l’Orient)

    April 17, 20157:30 p.m.
    MADRID
    Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). 7:30 p.m. Tickets: 3 euros for general tickets at the box office. 2 euros for tickets purchased online, the officially unemployed, Arab Language Center students and Youth Card holders.
    You must demonstrate your status by showing the proper document to receive the discount. You may only receive one discount. Assigned seats with tickets. On sale through the Casa Árabe website or the day of the screening at the Casa Árabe headquarters, as of one hour before the film begins.
    The films are shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
    Feriel Ben Mahmoud and Nicolas Daniel are the authors of this documentary film on the diva of Arab song (France, 2008, original language version with Spanish subtitles, 52 min.).
    Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum, with a voice beyond compare, became a symbol of unity amongst Arab countries. This woman of great personality and talent achieved huge successes in music during the 1950’s and 1960’s, and as a popular figure she has become an icon of contemporary Arab culture.

    Casa Árabe is showing this documentary on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Umm Kalthum’s death.
  • Homeland (Né quelque part)

    Homeland (Né quelque part)

    April 24, 20157:30 p.m.
    MADRID
    Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). 7:30 p.m. Tickets: 3 euros for general tickets at the box office. 2 euros for tickets purchased online, the officially unemployed, Arab Language Center students and Youth Card holders.
    You must demonstrate your status by showing the proper document to receive the discount. You may only receive one discount. Assigned seats with tickets. On sale through the Casa Árabe website or the day of the screening at the Casa Árabe headquarters, as of one hour before the film begins.
    The films are shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
    Screening of the fictional film by Mohamed Hamidi (Algeria and France, 2013, original language version with Spanish subtitles, 87 min.).
    Farid, a young Frenchmen aged 26, must go to Algeria to save his father’s home. As a result, he discovers a country where he had never set foot and ends up meeting a whole series of surprising characters whose humor and simplicity will end up changing him profoundly. The film, by the same producers as “Intouchables,” formed part of the official non-competing selection at the Cannes Film Festival.

    Cast: Tewfik Jallab, Jamel Debbouze, Fatsah Bouyahmed
  • Umm Kulthum, Star of the East (Oum Kalthoum, l’astre de l’Orient)

    Umm Kulthum, Star of the East (Oum Kalthoum, l’astre de l’Orient)

    May 08, 20157:30 p.m.
    MADRID
    Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). 7:30 p.m. Tickets: 3 euros for general tickets at the box office. 2 euros for tickets purchased online, the officially unemployed, Arab Language Center students and Youth Card holders.
    You must demonstrate your status by showing the proper document to receive the discount. You may only receive one discount. Assigned seats with tickets. On sale through the Casa Árabe website or the day of the screening at the Casa Árabe headquarters, as of one hour before the film begins.
    The films are shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
    Feriel Ben Mahmoud and Nicolas Daniel are the authors of this documentary film on the diva of Arab song (France, 2008, original language version with Spanish subtitles, 52 min.).
    Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum, with a voice beyond compare, became a symbol of unity amongst Arab countries. This woman of great personality and talent achieved huge successes in music during the 1950’s and 1960’s, and as a popular figure she has become an icon of contemporary Arab culture.

    Casa Árabe is showing this documentary on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Umm Kalthum’s death.
  • Two Meters of This Land (Metran men hada al-turab)

    Two Meters of This Land (Metran men hada al-turab)

    May 22, 20157:30 p.m.
    MADRID
    Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). 7:30 p.m. Tickets: 3 euros for general tickets at the box office. 2 euros for tickets purchased online, the officially unemployed, Arab Language Center students and Youth Card holders.
    You must demonstrate your status by showing the proper document to receive the discount. You may only receive one discount. Assigned seats with tickets. On sale through the Casa Árabe website or the day of the screening at the Casa Árabe headquarters, as of one hour before the film begins.
    The films are shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
    Ahmad Natche is the director of this fiction film (Palestine, 2012, original language version with Spanish subtitles, 80 min.).
    “Two meters of this land would be enough for me,” wrote Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwich. Very close to his grave in Ramallah on a summer’s afternoon, a music festival is being prepared at an open-air theater and will be broadcast on television. In this film about the power of culture, which combines drama and documentary film, the main characters are non-professional actors.

    Cast: Noemi Kahn, Raouf Haj-Yahia, Omaima Hamori, Linda Sadi, Samah Amer, Saja Basem, Anas Abu Oun.

    Festivals: The film premiered at the FID Marseille 2012 (France) and since then has been screened at many international festivals, including the Cairo International Film Festival of 2012 (Egypt); the Tetouan International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema of 2013 (Morocco) and AFLAM - Rencontres Internationales des Cinémas Arabes of 2013 (France).
  • Sugar on the Side (Sokar Barra)

    Sugar on the Side (Sokar Barra)

    May 29, 20157:30 p.m.
    MADRID
    Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). 7:30 p.m. Tickets: 3 euros for general tickets at the box office. 2 euros for tickets purchased online, the officially unemployed, Arab Language Center students and Youth Card holders.
    You must demonstrate your status by showing the proper document to receive the discount. You may only receive one discount. Assigned seats with tickets. On sale through the Casa Árabe website or the day of the screening at the Casa Árabe headquarters, as of one hour before the film begins.
    The films are shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
    Casa Árabe is presenting this documentary film by Basel Ramsis (Egypt and Spain, 2014, original language version with Spanish subtitles, 77 min.).
    Egypt, summer of 2013. As one political power falls and another becomes established, Nehmedo, Hanan and another few women live between the dream of improving their status by marrying men from the Gulf region and their everyday lives marked by poverty, discrimination and violence, in a marginalized village to the south of Giza.

    With the participation of: Nehmedo, Hanan, Umm Usa, Shaima, Warda, Mervat, mother of Hanan, maternal grandmother of Hanan, Zeinab.

    DOCUMENTARIST Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014; Cines del Sur Festival, Granada, 2014; MITEU, Orense 2014.
  • Timbuktu

    Timbuktu

    June 12, 20157:30 p.m.
    MADRID
    Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). 7:30 p.m. Tickets: 3 euros for general tickets at the box office. 2 euros for tickets purchased online, the officially unemployed, Arab Language Center students and Youth Card holders.
    You must demonstrate your status by showing the proper document to receive the discount. You may only receive one discount. Assigned seats with tickets. On sale through the Casa Árabe website or the day of the screening at the Casa Árabe headquarters, as of one hour before the film begins.
    The films are shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
    Screening of the fictional film by Abderrahmane Sissako (France, 2014, original language version with Spanish subtitles, 96 min.).
    On the outskirts of Timbuktu, which has fallen into the hands of religious extremists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya and Issan, his 12-year-old son. In the city, the local inhabitants are suffering under the regime of repression imposed by the Jihadists. The women have become like shadows who attempt to survive with dignity. Every day, improvised tribunals issue sentences as absurd as they are tragic. 

    Cast: Ahmed Ibrahim dit Pino, Toulou Kiki, Abel Jafri, Hichem Yacoubi, Kettly Noël, Fatoumata Diawara.

    Awards: Oscars: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film; 7 César Awards, including Best Film and Director; Cannes Film Festival: official section for competing feature films; Chicago Film Festival: Best Director; Satellite Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
  • Nights of Insomnia (Layali bala noom)

    Nights of Insomnia (Layali bala noom)

    June 19, 20157:30 p.m.
    MADRID
    Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). 7:30 p.m. Tickets: 3 euros for general tickets at the box office. 2 euros for tickets purchased online, the officially unemployed, Arab Language Center students and Youth Card holders.
    You must demonstrate your status by showing the proper document to receive the discount. You may only receive one discount. Assigned seats with tickets. On sale through the Casa Árabe website or the day of the screening at the Casa Árabe headquarters, as of one hour before the film begins.
    The films are shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
    Eliane Raheb is the director of this documentary film screened by Casa Árabe (Lebanon, Qatar, UAE, Palestine and France,  2012. Original language version with Spanish subtitles. 128 min.).
    The documentary film “Nights of Insomnia” tells the story of a meeting between two people inevitably marked by the war in Lebanon. With the former director of the Christian militia’s secret services Assad Chaftari, and Maryam Saiidi, mother of a boy kidnapped during the fighting, this documentary takes an in-depth look at the wounds from the conflict and asks whether redemption and forgiveness are possible.
  • Homeland (Né quelque part)

    Homeland (Né quelque part)

    June 26, 20157:30 p.m.
    MADRID
    Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Alcalá, 62). 7:30 p.m. Tickets: 3 euros for general tickets at the box office. 2 euros for tickets purchased online, the officially unemployed, Arab Language Center students and Youth Card holders.
    You must demonstrate your status by showing the proper document to receive the discount. You may only receive one discount. Assigned seats with tickets. On sale through the Casa Árabe website or the day of the screening at the Casa Árabe headquarters, as of one hour before the film begins.
    The films are shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish.
    Screening of the fictional film by Mohamed Hamidi (Algeria and France, 2013, original language version with Spanish subtitles, 87 min.).
    Farid, a young Frenchmen aged 26, must go to Algeria to save his father’s home. As a result, he discovers a country where he had never set foot and ends up meeting a whole series of surprising characters whose humor and simplicity will end up changing him profoundly. The film, by the same producers as “Intouchables,” formed part of the official non-competing selection at the Cannes Film Festival.

    Cast: Tewfik Jallab, Jamel Debbouze, Fatsah Bouyahmed