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Casa Árabe Cinema- Córdoba
From February 17, 2014 until April 09, 2014
The best in Arab audiovisualsFrom February 21- April 4, 2014 – CORDOBA
Starting in February, we will be bringing the best of Arab cinema back to the big screen. This time we are presenting five films, which have received great international acclaim, and in which women play the starring roles. These screenings have been made possible by a collaborative effort with the film festival 14,4 Km –Intercultural Dialogue Between the Shores of the Mediterranean.
All of the films will be shown at 8.00 p.m., in the Casa Árabe auditorium in Córdoba (at c/ Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9). The films will be shown in the original language version with subtitles in Spanish. Free entrance until the auditorium’s capacity is full.
Film Dates
Amreeka, by Cherien Dabis (United States, Canada and Kuwait, 2009, 96 minutes)
Knowing that it is the only way to find a better future, Muna and her teenage son, Fadi, leave Palestine in search of a new life in a small Illinois town. Muna’s sister, her husband and their three daughter let the newcomers move into their house. There they will have to strive to fit into a new culture without leaving their own behind, facing an environment which views everything from the Middle East with mistrust after the invasion of Iraq. While Fadi finds a friend in his rebellious cousin and gets into trouble at high school, dauntless Muna never loses hope, and despite having to live a double life working at a local hamburger restaurant, she tackles this new stage of life with optimism, teaching her a son a lesson that he will never forget.Screening: February 21
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Yema, by Djamila Sahraoui (Algeria, France, 2011, 90 minutes)
Somewhere in Algeria, at a small house abandoned in the middle of the countryside, Ouardia has buried her son Tariq, a soldier who may have been murdered by his brother Ali, the leader of a fundamentalist faction. The woman lives under the watch of a man from Ali’s group. In this universe of tension and pain, with the added weakness caused by drought, life begins to regain its strength once again. Thanks to the vegetable garden Ouardia brings back to life through her perseverance; thanks to her guard, who is also a victim that the woman ends up adopting; thanks, above all, to the arrival of the son of Malia, a woman who dies in childbirth and whom both brothers had loved. However, Ouardia’s suffering is not over yet. Ali returns home severely wounded…Screening: March 7
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Habibi, by Susan Youssef (Holland, United States, Palestine, United Arab Emirates, 2011, 78 minutes)
A modern-day adaptation of the Sufi parable of Majnun Layla, this film tells the story of two students who return to Gaza from the West Bank and of their forbidden love. Gaza’s walls are filled with graffiti and the poems which Qays writes for his beloved. In an open-air jail, these prisoners to the logic of social and political conventions are seeking freedom. This film is the first feature-length fictional film to be set in Gaza in 15 years. Screening: March 21
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Crayons of Askalan, by Laila Hotait (Lebanon, Spain, 2011, 52 minutes)
In 1975, at the age of fifteen, Zuhdi is found guilty and sentenced to fifteen years at the high-security prison in Askalan, Israel, becoming the youngest there and one of the first captured from the Palestinian resistance. While in jail, Zuhdi finds a way to express himself in art, and he manages to weave together a network through which his cellmates and family help him smuggle colored crayons in. Using these crayons, he finishes nearly a hundred drawings at night while hiding from his jailors. During visits, he smuggles them back out.Screening: April 4
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