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African Cinema Festival of Cordoba

From October 15, 2014 until October 19, 2014See times and dates

CORDOBA

Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9) See times and dates Free entry until the cinema’s capacity is reached.

For yet another year, Casa Árabe is hosting these screenings for the public and an exhibition

As part of our cooperation with the African Film Festival, at our headquarters in Cordoba we are hosting an exciting series of film screenings, every evening from October 15-19, as well as the exhibition "Más Morena" by a photographer from Malaga, Javier Hirschfeld, from October 7-19.

Cordoba’s FCAT is returning with a non-competitive edition that will include nearly 40 films, in what will constitute a compilation of the ten preceding editions. It is a turning point amongst the festival’s many editions which will build a bridge towards its definitive date: in 2015, the festival will be held during the month of March, from the 21st to 28th.

The official sign for the 2014 edition pays homage to Cordoba painter Julio Romero de Torres on the 140th anniversary of his birth, which will be commemorated on the upcoming date of November 9. More specifically, the sign is a re-interpretation of the work “The Sisters of Santa Marina” (1915), by the painter from Cordoba, made by Malaga photographer Javier Hirschfeld. The photograph forms part of the exhibition "Más Morena," that can be seen at the Casa Árabe headquarters from October 7-19.

In this series of photographs, Hirschfeld revisits the work of Romero de Torres and proposes parallelisms between everyday life on the Senegalese island of Gorée and the painting of customary scenes by the painter from Cordoba through the female figure, in this case African.

The exhibition “Más Morena” was officially opened on October 6 at 6:00 p.m. Participating in the opening event were Juan Miguel Moreno Calderón, Assistant to the Mayor in charge of Culture, Mane Cisneros, the Director of FCAT, and Javier Hirschfeld, the work’s author.

In addition to the exhibition, Casa Árabe is hosting screenings of films by Arab directors and/or with Arab themes that are being presented at the Festival. They include the titles The Puppeteer; In the Silence, I Hear the Earth Turning and the Pan-African Festival of Algiers (October 15); You Are All Captains and Mascarades (October 16); Azur and Asmar and Microphone (October 17), Our Forbidden Places and I Have Loved So Much... (October 18) and, last of all, Daratt (Dry Season) and Secrets (October 19).

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The Puppeteer; In the Silence, I Hear the Earth Turning and the Pan-African Festival of Algiers

October 15, 20146:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

CORDOBA

Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9) 6:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Free entrance until the event’s capacity is reached.

Screenings which form part of Casa Árabe’s collaboration with the African Cinema Festival of Cordoba

GARAGOUZ (The Puppeteer)
Abdenour Zahzah (Algeria – 2010 – 24’) | Fiction
Mokhtar makes a living as a puppeteer. He is helped by his son Nabil, to whom he teaches the profession. At the wheel of an old van, he travels to the few schools spread around the Algerian countryside, facing prejudices and the obstacles placed before him.
Within the section: “The African Dream”

DANS LE SILENCE, JE SENS ROULER LA TERRE (In the Silence, I Hear the Earth Turning)
Mohamed Lakhdar Tati (Algeria/France – 2010 - 52’) | Documentary
In 1939, the end of the Spanish Civil War forces thousands of Republicans to flee Franco’s Spain. The French administration in Algeria opened camps to take them in. Seventy years later, the author investigates what happened, using his camera.
Within the section: “African Realities”

20:30h - PAN-AFRICAN FESTIVAL OF ALGIERS
William Klein (Algeria/France/Germany – 1969 – 112’) | Documentary
The documentary follows the preparations for this "Third World opera." Mixing images of interviews of writers and revolutionary leaders with archival images, the film touches on the topics of colonialism, liberation movements, culture in Africa…
Within the section: “Cinema and History”
You Are All Captains and Mascarades

October 16, 20146:00 p.m. and 8:30p.m.

CORDOBA

Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9) 6:00 p.m. and 8:30p.m. Free entrance until the event’s capacity is reached.

Screenings which form part of Casa Árabe’s collaboration with the African Cinema Festival of Cordoba

TODOS VOS SODES CAPITANS (You Are All Captains)
Oliver Laxe (Spain – 2010 – 79’)
A filmmaker directs a film about minors taken in at a center in Tangier. Throughout the filming, the director’s work methods wear down his relationship with the children, to such an extent that the project becomes completely transformed.
Within the section: “Spanish Perspectives”

MASCARADES
Lyes Salem (Algeria/France – 2008 – 92’) | Fiction
Mounir wants everyone to admire him, but his sister Rym, who suddenly falls asleep anywhere, is the laughing stock of the entire town. One night, Mounir goes out into the town square and announces that a rich foreigner has asked for Rym’s hand in marriage. Everyone envies him. Trapped by his lie, he ends up changing his family’s destiny without even having meant to.
Within the section: “The African Dream”
Azur and Asmar and Microphone

October 17, 20146:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

CORDOBA

Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9 – Cordoba) 6:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Free entrance until the event’s capacity is reached.

Screenings which form part of Casa Árabe’s collaboration with the African Cinema Festival of Cordoba

6:00 p.m. - AZUR ET ASMAR (Azur and Asmar)
Michel Ocelot (France – 2006 – 92’) | Animation
Two children are brought up as brothers in France. One is rich and the other son of the family’s wet nurse. Life suddenly pulls them apart, but they meet again when Azur decides to set off in search of the Fairy of the Djinns.
Within the section: “Animafrica”

8:30 p.m. - MICROPHONE
Ahmad Abdalla (Egypt – 2010 – 122’) | Fiction
Khaled returns to Alexandria after having spent several years traveling. He has a hard time understanding how his native city changed so much while he was away.
Within the section: “The African Dream”
Our Forbidden Places and I Have Loved So Much...

October 18, 20146:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

CORDOBA

Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9 – Cordoba) 6:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Free entrance until the event’s capacity is reached.

Screenings which form part of Casa Árabe’s collaboration with the African Cinema Festival of Cordoba

6:00 p.m. - NOS LIEUX INTERDITS (Our Forbidden Places)
Leïla Kilani (Morocco/France – 2008 – 105’) | Documentary
In 2004, the King of Morocco started up a “Commission of Equity and Reconciliation” to investigate the State violence which occurred during the "years of lead." The film follows four families for three years in their search for the truth: whether a militant, a young rebel soldier or a simple female citizen, either they themselves or their family members were jailed in different locations spread throughout all of Morocco’s territory.
Within the section: “African Realities”

8:30 p.m. - J’AI TANT AIMÉ… (I Have Loved So Much…)
Dalila Ennadre (Morocco/France – 2008 – 50’) | Documentary
Fadma was hired as a prostitute at a field military brothel by the French colonial army and took part in the War of Indochina. Today she says that she accepted to take part in the documentary so that France would acknowledge her like it acknowledges other war veterans: "I also took part in the war."
Within the section: “African Realities” With attendance of the director
Daratt (Dry Season) and Secrets

October 19, 2014 6:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

CORDOBA

Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9 – Cordoba) 6:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Free entrance until the event’s capacity is reached.

Screenings which form part of Casa Árabe’s collaboration with the African Cinema Festival of Cordoba

6:00 p.m. - DARATT (DRY SEASON) Daratt (Dry Season)
Mahamat Saleh-Haroun (Chad/Belgium/France/Austria – 2006 – 97’) | Fiction
Atim, a teenager from Chad who reached N’Djamena to get revenge for his father, has a strange relationship with his father’s murderer, a former retired war criminal and owner of a bakery where Atim is hired as an apprentice.
Within the section: “The African Dream”

20:30 – DOWAHA (Secrets)
Raja Amari (Tunisia/Switzerland/France – 2009 – 91’) | Fiction
Aicha, Radia and their mother live hidden away in the servants’ quarters of an uninhabited house. The precarious balance in their everyday lives is shaken up when a young couple moves in upstairs. Then a strange sort of cohabitation occurs between the couple and the three women.
Within the section: “The African Dream”