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Cinema on Music, Youth and Transitions in Cordoba
From January 17, 2013 until February 22, 2013
Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Cordoba releases the 2013 cinema program with the season "Connected to the amplifier. Music, Youth and Transitions" from January 11th to February 22nd.
This season offers an overview of the most surprising and unknown underground scene from the Arab and Islamic countries. It tales the fast track evolution of their societies and the relevant role youth is playing on these transitions.
Designed by Khadija Douieb, the program is an open window to the varied musical production of these countries and it will enable people to get to know from the Algerian popular music, through which history and cultural richness of the country will be spread, to even to the most recent sounds, such as hip hop, heavy metal and rock in Iran, Palestine, Iraq, Syria, and Morocco...
Alongside the musical topic, there will also be two famous feature films: The Moroccan Symphony, a blockbuster, and Whatever Lola Wants, on Oriental dance in Egypt.
Screenings will take place at Casa Árabe’s Auditorium in Córdoba (c/ Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9) at 20.00. Original version with subtitles in Spanish. Free entrance limited by space availability.
Film trailers are available by clicking on "Multimedia" on the top menu of the site.
No One Knows About Persian Cats, by Bahman Ghobadi (Iran, 2009, 106 minutes)
Two young musicians have just been released from prison and decide to form a musical band. Together they explore the underworld of the contemporary Teheran looking for other interpreters. When authorities banned them from singing in Iran, they plan to evade their clandestine existence and dream of playing in Europe, though without money and passports it will not be an easy task.
Next music station, serial by Fermín Muguruza (Spain and Qatar, 2011, 50 min. each chapter).
The musician and documentary maker Fermin Muguruza, with Al Jazeera Documentary Channel production, depictures a sound map of Arab world musical reality. A rhythmical trip through cultures, traditions, modernity, fight, resurgence, the willingness facing the future and the emotion of the present.
• Yemen: between tradition and modernity
A captivating sound experience in Yemen conducted by Lamya Abdulhadef Al-Zubayri, who depicts the eagerness of Yemeni musicians for preserving traditional melodies, as well as the popular style Homayni from Sanaa, the ancient art of the oud, or even for merging those styles with new languages such as rap or electronic music.
• Lebanon: Beirut Rhythms
Photographer Déborah Phares invites us to a sound trip through the Lebanese geography, a voice and sound mosaic which emerge from Arab traditional music, its folklore and its instruments, and which walk towards the search of new languages. These may serve as bridges and knowledge between Orient and Occident through more modern rhythms such as pop, rock, rap or alternative rock.
Arab Rap, by Bachir Bensaddek (Canada, 2011, 52 minutes)
Several artists, three countries, just one language: Arabic; just one style: hip hop. From Casablanca to Alepo this young people raise their voices. Their words are their black gold, which they distil as petrol for the vehicle they have chosen: rap, a well rolled machine of mix consoles and various sounds. Young people challenge to take the word, even when they are not allowed to.
El Gusto, by Safinez Bousbia (Algeria, Ireland and United Arab Emirates, 2011, 93 minutes)
The good mood is a characteristic from the Algerian popular music, Chaabi, created mid-twenties in the heart of the Algerian Kasbah by the great musician of the time, El Anka. Through the mythical orchestra El Gusto, the Algerian Buena Vista Social Club which meets again fifty years later, we travel through the cultural and political history of the country.
Heavy Metal in Baghdad, by Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi (Iraq, 2007, 84 minutes)
This documentary film shoots the story of the heavy metal Iraqi band Acrassicauda from Saddam Hussein’s fall in 2003 to 2007. Playing heavy metal in that country was almost impossible, but after the regime fell the band enjoyed a brief period where freedom seemed to be possible. This story shows the expectations of a generation of young Iraqi people.
Whatever Lola Wants, by Nabil Ayouch (France and Morocco, 2007, 115 minutes)
Lola is 25-year old young female who lives in New York and dreams of becoming a belly dancer. Thanks to her best friend Youssef, a young Egyptian, she discovers the story of Ismahan, a star of Oriental dance, and quite a figure in Cairo.
Microphone, by Ahmad Abdallah (Egypt, 2010, 120 min.).
Khaled returns to his home town, Alexandria, after a few years of absence he spent travelling only to come back to a changed Egypt. It is too late to retake his former relationship with his beloved from the past and the one he had with his father is broken for good. Walking through the city, he discovers an artistic underground world: hip hop singers, skaters, graffiti painters… Despite his limited resources, he tries to support this movement and to call for attention to those different sides of the city.
Designed by Khadija Douieb, the program is an open window to the varied musical production of these countries and it will enable people to get to know from the Algerian popular music, through which history and cultural richness of the country will be spread, to even to the most recent sounds, such as hip hop, heavy metal and rock in Iran, Palestine, Iraq, Syria, and Morocco...
Alongside the musical topic, there will also be two famous feature films: The Moroccan Symphony, a blockbuster, and Whatever Lola Wants, on Oriental dance in Egypt.
Screenings will take place at Casa Árabe’s Auditorium in Córdoba (c/ Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9) at 20.00. Original version with subtitles in Spanish. Free entrance limited by space availability.
Film trailers are available by clicking on "Multimedia" on the top menu of the site.
Synopsis
No One Knows About Persian Cats, by Bahman Ghobadi (Iran, 2009, 106 minutes)
Two young musicians have just been released from prison and decide to form a musical band. Together they explore the underworld of the contemporary Teheran looking for other interpreters. When authorities banned them from singing in Iran, they plan to evade their clandestine existence and dream of playing in Europe, though without money and passports it will not be an easy task.
Next music station, serial by Fermín Muguruza (Spain and Qatar, 2011, 50 min. each chapter).
The musician and documentary maker Fermin Muguruza, with Al Jazeera Documentary Channel production, depictures a sound map of Arab world musical reality. A rhythmical trip through cultures, traditions, modernity, fight, resurgence, the willingness facing the future and the emotion of the present.
• Yemen: between tradition and modernity
A captivating sound experience in Yemen conducted by Lamya Abdulhadef Al-Zubayri, who depicts the eagerness of Yemeni musicians for preserving traditional melodies, as well as the popular style Homayni from Sanaa, the ancient art of the oud, or even for merging those styles with new languages such as rap or electronic music.
• Lebanon: Beirut Rhythms
Photographer Déborah Phares invites us to a sound trip through the Lebanese geography, a voice and sound mosaic which emerge from Arab traditional music, its folklore and its instruments, and which walk towards the search of new languages. These may serve as bridges and knowledge between Orient and Occident through more modern rhythms such as pop, rock, rap or alternative rock.
Arab Rap, by Bachir Bensaddek (Canada, 2011, 52 minutes)
Several artists, three countries, just one language: Arabic; just one style: hip hop. From Casablanca to Alepo this young people raise their voices. Their words are their black gold, which they distil as petrol for the vehicle they have chosen: rap, a well rolled machine of mix consoles and various sounds. Young people challenge to take the word, even when they are not allowed to.
El Gusto, by Safinez Bousbia (Algeria, Ireland and United Arab Emirates, 2011, 93 minutes)
The good mood is a characteristic from the Algerian popular music, Chaabi, created mid-twenties in the heart of the Algerian Kasbah by the great musician of the time, El Anka. Through the mythical orchestra El Gusto, the Algerian Buena Vista Social Club which meets again fifty years later, we travel through the cultural and political history of the country.
Heavy Metal in Baghdad, by Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi (Iraq, 2007, 84 minutes)
This documentary film shoots the story of the heavy metal Iraqi band Acrassicauda from Saddam Hussein’s fall in 2003 to 2007. Playing heavy metal in that country was almost impossible, but after the regime fell the band enjoyed a brief period where freedom seemed to be possible. This story shows the expectations of a generation of young Iraqi people.
Whatever Lola Wants, by Nabil Ayouch (France and Morocco, 2007, 115 minutes)
Lola is 25-year old young female who lives in New York and dreams of becoming a belly dancer. Thanks to her best friend Youssef, a young Egyptian, she discovers the story of Ismahan, a star of Oriental dance, and quite a figure in Cairo.
Microphone, by Ahmad Abdallah (Egypt, 2010, 120 min.).
Khaled returns to his home town, Alexandria, after a few years of absence he spent travelling only to come back to a changed Egypt. It is too late to retake his former relationship with his beloved from the past and the one he had with his father is broken for good. Walking through the city, he discovers an artistic underground world: hip hop singers, skaters, graffiti painters… Despite his limited resources, he tries to support this movement and to call for attention to those different sides of the city.
Screening Program
| Friday January 11th | No One Knows About Persian Cats |
| Friday January 18th | Next music station |
| Friday January 25th | Rap Arab |
| Friday February 1st | El Gusto |
| Friday February 8th | Heavy Metal in Baghdad |
| Friday February 15th | Whatever Lola Wants |
| Friday February 22nd | Microphone |
