A varied program which through films released in the recent past years aims to make the different Arab realities closer to the audience.

The Wretched Life of Juanita Narboni, by Farida Benlyazid (Morocco and Spain, 2005, 101 min.).
Juanita, daughter of a Gibraltar English father and an Andalusian mother, relates with plenty of humour her sorrows and desires, as well as the life of those women surrounding her, located in that "paradise" which was the international Tangier, the last trace of colonialism, where cultures and religions lived together.

Waiting for Pasolini, by Daoud Aoulad Syad (Morocco, 2007, 100 min.).
Thami works as a foreign film extra in those projects filmed in his hometown, close to Ouarzazate. During one of those shootings, he meets the famous Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini. Forty years later, an Italian team set returns to film a movie on the Bible and the whole village prepares for the event. Thami thinks he will meet his friend, until he finds out that Pasolini had died long time ago.

Salt of this Sea, by Annemarie Jacir (Palestine, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands and Spain, 2008, 109 min.).
Soraya, 28-year-old, born and bred in Brooklyn, decides to return and settle in Palestine, from where her family exiled in 1948. Once in Ramallah, Soraya crosses Emad, a young Palestinian who, on the contrary, just wishes
to flee that land forever.

Amreeka, by Cherien Dabis (United States, Canada and Kuwait, 2009, 96 min.).
Knowing that there is just one way to get a better future, Muna, a single mother with a teenage son, leaves the West Bank with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of the small town of Illinois. Muna’s sister, her husband and their three children host the new arrived family at home. Muna and her son will have to struggle to fit into a new culture without losing their own one, facing an environment that after Iraq invasion looks the Middle East with distrust.

Saturday July 2nd	The Wretched Life of Juanita Narboni, by Farida Benlyazid
Sunday July 3rd	Waiting for Pasolini, by Daoud Aoulad Syad
Monday July 4th	Salt of this Sea, by Annemarie Jacir
Tuesday July 5th	Amreeka, by Cherien Dabis
Wednesday July 6th	The Wretched Life of Juanita Narboni, by Farida Benlyazid
Thursday July 7th	Waiting for Pasolini, by Daoud Aoulad Syad
Friday July 8th	Salt of this Sea, by Annemarie Jacir
Saturday July 9th	Amreeka, by Cherien Dabis

Showings will take place at Casa Árabe’s Garden in Madrid (c/ Alcalá, 62), at 22.00. Original version films with subtitles in Spanish. Free entrance prior ticket collection from 21.15 onwards. Maximum two per person.