As it does each year, coinciding with the month of Ramadan, Casa Árabe has organized a full schedule of activities at its Cordoba headquarters, including this series of films in which you will get the opportunity to view fictional movies and documentaries about experiences during Ramadan in different countries.

The film Le Grand Voyage was the first feature film by the director of Moroccan origin, Ismaël Ferroukhi, as well as the first filming to take place within Mecca. The director’s objectives was to show a dual-faceted journey in his film: the pilgrimage by car, traveling 5,000 kilometers to Mecca, a trip which would also become an inner journey towards a stronger relationship between a father and a son who does not share the same rules of Islam followed by his father.
The film series will be rounded off with the scheduling of a series of documentaries made in more than thirty countries by the television network Al-Jazeera. For this occasion, four documentaries have been selected, because they show the religious, cultural and social rituals of Muslims during the month of Ramadan. In each film, we will see a different country and distinct customs, reflecting the image of the cities of Istanbul, Cairo and the German city of Karlsruhe, as well as the lives of their inhabitants during this sacred month for Muslims from all over the world. A short-subject film will also be screened about the typical religious rites which are carried out during Ramadan, also produced by Al-Jazeera’s documentary channel.