Our live film screening schedule has been interrupted for the first time ever since we began to show Arab films each Friday back in 2008. In order to keep you from missing our scheduled films as we await the time when we are able to return to our cinema screening rooms in Madrid and Cordoba, we will be bringing you Arab cinema at home throughout the month of May. We are offering this series of online film screenings thanks to our cooperation with the Tarifa-Tangiers African Film Festival (FCAT), one of our regular partners, with which we have already shared many film series in the past.

This selection, which is scheduled during the month of May, includes four fictional feature films. Created by two Egyptian directors, we will be showing two films that were given excellent reviews at the latest international film festivals. First of all, there is “In the Last Days of the City,” by Tamer El Said, presenting us a portrait of Cairo one year before the revolution in 2011 through a constellation of characters tied to the city. Then we will watch “Décor,” filmed in black and white by Ahmed Abdallah, an exquisite homage to the golden era of Egyptian film. The other two titles, produced in Morocco, are “The Orchestra of the Blind,” by Mohamed Mouftakir, which earned three awards at the International Film Festival of Brussels, telling about the adventures of a very popular orchestra during the early years of King Hassan II’s reign, and “Adiós, Carmen,” by Mohamed Amin Benamraoui, which takes us back to the final years of Spain’s colonial presence in northern Morocco, through the film’s young main character, Amar.

All of the films will be available for a day and a half, from 12:00 noon on Friday and until 11:59 pm. on Saturday and can be viewed by clicking on the link which you will find on Casa Árabe’s website.

As always, the films we show are in the original language version with Spanish subtitles.

Film series information sheet