Throughout the months of February and March, Casa Árabe is presenting an eclectic series of films that includes both feature-length fiction films and documentaries. The selected films deal with a wide range of subject matters directly related with the current environment in which we are living, filled with uncertainty while raising so many open-ended questions. With El Rayo, we will be giving a voice in the first person to a main character in Arab emigration to Europe, through the original story of Hassan, a Moroccan who has lived in Spain for over a decade. We will share the experience of two people who come from very different cultural, social and religious backgrounds, but whose paths cross as a result of a terrorist attack, in London River. By following a series of characters from Palestine, we will become familiar, in Bromas aparte ((No) Laughing Matter), the culture of humor and satire as something deeply rooted in many Arab countries, and through Ziara, más allá del umbral (Ziara, Beyond the Threshold), the result of an in-depth study expressed through documentary film, we will delve into other ways of living the Muslim religion, in this case the popular Islam of marabout worship and the festive pilgrimages that take place in northern Morocco.

Last of all, our schedule of films for the next two months will be ending with the screening of Bernarda Alba en Palestina (Bernarda Alba in Palestine), a medium-length film that takes Federico García Lorca’s play to the classrooms of the Palestinian University of Bethlehem. It will be shown during Madrid’s “Theater Night.”