films
Arab
Cinema Weekend 17-19 March 2006 @ BAFTA
all screenings @ BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LN
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| Dunia,
Kiss Me Not On The Eyes
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Acclaimed Lebanese director Jocelyne Saab tackles a young Egpytian woman's
struggles to overcome the pressures of being a modern woman with typical
sensitivity and visual lyricism.
Opening
night - by invitation only
Friday
17 March
18:30 - Reception
19:00 - Screening
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| I
Love Cinema
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Playing like an Egpytian Cinema Paradiso, director Oussama Faouzi's
I Love Cinema is one of the best and most entertaining films from the "Hollywood on the Nile" for many years.
Saturday
18 March
13.00
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| Zaman,
Man of the Reeds
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A deceptively simple tale an elderly man forced to travel from his house
in the country's South along the river Tigris to Baghdad to buy his
ailing wife some medicine, director Amer Alwan films the man's lingering
journey across the vast river was filmed with a panoramic beauty.
Saturday
18 March
15.30
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| Passion
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Syrian director Mohammad Malas tackles the insidious rise of Islamic
fundamentalism with great deft in Passion.
Saturday
18 March
18.00
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| A
Perfect Day
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Awarded the Fipresci Prize at the Locarno Film Festival, the second
feature from artists and film-making team Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas
marks an important step in the renaissance of post-civil war Lebanese
cinema.
Saturday
18 March
20.30
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| 17th
Octobre, 1961
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An uncompromising thriller set against the backdrop of the Algerian
war of independence, 17th Octobre 1961 depicts the events that led to
the infamous, and still not officially recognised, massacre of hundreds
of Algerian civilians on the streets of Paris.
Sunday
19 March
12.00
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Bosta
- cancelled
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We apologise for the cancellation of the film Bosta. In it's place we
will be showing the Academy Award nominated film Le
Grand Voyage.
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Le
Grand Voyage
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A few weeks before his college entrance exams, Reda, a young man who
lives in the south of France, finds himself forced to drive his father
to Mecca.
Sunday
19 March
14.30
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| A
State of Love
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A box-office hit in its native Egypt, A State of Love is directed by
Saad Hendawi and stars Hend Sabri, one of the most exciting Arab actress
to emerge in recent years and arguably the best-equipped to repeat the
cross-over success of Omar Sharif.
Sunday
19 March
17.00
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| Mustapha
Akkad Tribute
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To commemorate the tragic death last year of producer-director Mustapha
Akkad, we are pleased to hold a screening of Akkad's The Lion in the
Desert.
Sunday
19 March
19.00
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