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Recently Released Films in Cordoba
From March 06, 2013 until April 26, 2013
Casa Árabe continues to schedule current fiction film screenings at its Cordoba headquarters, with a series of recent, quality movies to be shown from April 5-26.
The first film shown will be 678, by Mohamed Diab, the stirring portrait of three brave women who rebel against the violence which they suffer. The second of the screenings will be The Secrets, the latest film by Raja Amari, director of the successful film Red Satin. Women are also the stars of Where Do We Go Now? by Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki, who won the Public’s Choice Award at the Toronto Festival in 2011. The last film to be shown will be After the Battle, the most recent feature film by Yousry Nasrallah, director of Scheherazade Tell Me a Story.
Friday, April 5 678, by Mohamed Diab (Egypt, 2011, 100 min.)
Friday, April 12 The Secrets, by Raja Amari (France, Swaziland, Tunisia, 2009, 91 minutes)
Friday, April 19 Where Do We Go Now?, de Nadine Labaki (Lebanon, France, Italy and Egypt, 2011, 90 min.)
Friday, April 26 After the Battle, by Yousry Nasrallah (Egypt and France, 2012, 122 minutes)
678, by Mohamed Diab (Egypt, 2011, 100 min.)
Based on the real story of three women and their determination to defend themselves against the sexual harassment suffered by women in Egypt. When one of them decides to fight back and stab one of her assailants in the groin, she becomes an anonymous heroine who revolutionizes the city.
The Secrets, by Raja Amari (France, Swaziland, Tunisia, 2009, 91 minutes)
Aicha, Radia and their mother live hidden away in the servants’ wing of an uninhabited house. The precarious balance in their everyday lives is shaken up when a young couple moves in upstairs. A bizarre cohabitation then begins between the couple and the three women, who prefer not to reveal their presence to these unexpected neighbors. They cannot come out of their hiding place, because it conceals secrets hidden for many years. However, Aicha, the youngest of the two sisters, feels in some way attracted by these recent arrivals.
This film has received awards at the Arte Mare Festival in Bastia, the Arab Film Festival of Rotterdam, the Valencia Mediterranean Film Festival and the Festival of Milan.
Where Do We Go Now?, by Nadine Labaki (Lebanon, France, Italy and Egypt, 2011, 90 minutes)
On the path leading to the village graveyard, a procession of women in black stoically withstands the heat of the sun, all holding pictures of their husbands, fathers or sons in their hands. Some of the women are wearing veils, and others a cross, but they are all mourning just the same, as a result of a tragic but useless war. Upon entering the graveyard, this entourage divides in two: one Muslim, the other Christian. With the backdrop of a country torn apart by war, Where Do We Go Now? tells the story of the steadfast determination of a group of women of both religions to protect their families and their town from outside threats. Showing great ingenuity and coming up with clever strategems, brought together by the bonds of an unbreakable friendship, these women have just one goal in mind: to distract the men in their lives and get them to forget about their anger and differences. However, when events take a tragic turn, how far will these women be willing to go to avoid losing the men who are still left?
After the Battle, by Yousry Nasrallah (Egypt and France, 2012, 122 minutes)
Mahmoud is one of the ‘horsemen’ on Tahrir Square on February 2, 2011 when the crackdown against revolutionary youths takes place. Humiliated, unemployed, ostracized in his own neighborhood by the Pyramids, Mahmoud and his family are in despair… But then he meets Reem, a secular young Egyptian divorcee and modern-thinker who works in advertising. Reem is a militant revolutionary and lives in an elegant Cairo neighborhood. Meeting each other will alter the course of their lives.
The film competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.
All of the screenings will be held at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Cordoba (address: Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9) at 8:00 p.m. Free entrance until all seats are filled.
Film Showing Dates
Friday, April 5 678, by Mohamed Diab (Egypt, 2011, 100 min.)
Friday, April 12 The Secrets, by Raja Amari (France, Swaziland, Tunisia, 2009, 91 minutes)
Friday, April 19 Where Do We Go Now?, de Nadine Labaki (Lebanon, France, Italy and Egypt, 2011, 90 min.)
Friday, April 26 After the Battle, by Yousry Nasrallah (Egypt and France, 2012, 122 minutes)
Synopses
678, by Mohamed Diab (Egypt, 2011, 100 min.)
Based on the real story of three women and their determination to defend themselves against the sexual harassment suffered by women in Egypt. When one of them decides to fight back and stab one of her assailants in the groin, she becomes an anonymous heroine who revolutionizes the city.
The Secrets, by Raja Amari (France, Swaziland, Tunisia, 2009, 91 minutes)
Aicha, Radia and their mother live hidden away in the servants’ wing of an uninhabited house. The precarious balance in their everyday lives is shaken up when a young couple moves in upstairs. A bizarre cohabitation then begins between the couple and the three women, who prefer not to reveal their presence to these unexpected neighbors. They cannot come out of their hiding place, because it conceals secrets hidden for many years. However, Aicha, the youngest of the two sisters, feels in some way attracted by these recent arrivals.
This film has received awards at the Arte Mare Festival in Bastia, the Arab Film Festival of Rotterdam, the Valencia Mediterranean Film Festival and the Festival of Milan.
Where Do We Go Now?, by Nadine Labaki (Lebanon, France, Italy and Egypt, 2011, 90 minutes)
On the path leading to the village graveyard, a procession of women in black stoically withstands the heat of the sun, all holding pictures of their husbands, fathers or sons in their hands. Some of the women are wearing veils, and others a cross, but they are all mourning just the same, as a result of a tragic but useless war. Upon entering the graveyard, this entourage divides in two: one Muslim, the other Christian. With the backdrop of a country torn apart by war, Where Do We Go Now? tells the story of the steadfast determination of a group of women of both religions to protect their families and their town from outside threats. Showing great ingenuity and coming up with clever strategems, brought together by the bonds of an unbreakable friendship, these women have just one goal in mind: to distract the men in their lives and get them to forget about their anger and differences. However, when events take a tragic turn, how far will these women be willing to go to avoid losing the men who are still left?
After the Battle, by Yousry Nasrallah (Egypt and France, 2012, 122 minutes)
Mahmoud is one of the ‘horsemen’ on Tahrir Square on February 2, 2011 when the crackdown against revolutionary youths takes place. Humiliated, unemployed, ostracized in his own neighborhood by the Pyramids, Mahmoud and his family are in despair… But then he meets Reem, a secular young Egyptian divorcee and modern-thinker who works in advertising. Reem is a militant revolutionary and lives in an elegant Cairo neighborhood. Meeting each other will alter the course of their lives.
The film competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.
All of the screenings will be held at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Cordoba (address: Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9) at 8:00 p.m. Free entrance until all seats are filled.
