ARAB Film Festival 2010
June 16th 2010 05:13
Holdd onto your shoes Australia because it’s just two weeks until the opening of the 2010 Arab Film Festival! Opening in Parramatta’s Riverside Theatre on 1 July, the festival will travel to Melbourne (9-11 July), Canberra (15-18 July), Adelaide (24-25 July) and Brisbane (30-31 July).
Action-packed drama, documentary, thrillers, animation and shorts – once again the Festival program is packed with fresh stories from across the Arab world.
We busted out of Sydney last year and took the festival to audiences in Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Adelaide. In 2010 we will again tour across the country with a selection of Arab films to share with Australian audiences.
Some of the highlights .......
•Australia’s first screening of a multilingual Emirati film – the sexy and provocative City of Life. Director Ali Mostafa joins us for opening night.
• Beloved Palestinian director Elia Suleiman’s latest quirky, witty and visually luscious film examining his family story since 1948: The Time that Remains
• 12 Angry Lebanese – the story of Roumieh Prison inmates transformed into powerful theatre makers, directed by Zeina Daccache
• The world-first Arabian Nights Animation Collection: short animations influenced by everything from Sinbad to manga, that take us places Disney’s Aladdin could never touch
• Harragas: the harrowing tale of young Algerian lovers who make the mad, brave decision to attempt an escape to Spain by boat.
• Egyptian Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story, fresh from the Venice and Toronto film fests, following a woman juggling work, husband and politics in a tale of our time
• Kick Off: what starts as an uplifting soccer match has sinister consequences when it’s played in an Iraqi refugee shanty
• Our famous Makhlouta session of provocative international shorts, including local Arab-Australian filmmakers
• The renowned local oud player Mohamed Youssef playing live at the launch.
Opening night tickets are on sale now. $30 per person (film sweets party).
All other session ticket prices start from $10. Get your tickets early!
Spotlight on closing feature film....
The Time That Remains
Palestine’s much-loved director Elia Sulieman brings his signature mix of quirky wit and pathos to this personal film about Palestine since 1948. A favourite at Cannes (it was nominated for the Palm d’Or).
Here Suleiman deepens and develops his absurdist style, which draws on precise comic timing, elements of fantasy and his own presence on the screen, often compared to Buster Keaton. Drawing on his father’s personal stories, his mothers letters and his own experiences living under occupation in Palestine, during and after the ‘Nakba’ (the ‘Catastrophe’), when the State of Israel was created in 1948.
More on the festival program www.arabfilmfestival.com.au
We busted out of Sydney last year and took the festival to audiences in Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Adelaide. In 2010 we will again tour across the country with a selection of Arab films to share with Australian audiences.
Some of the highlights .......
•Australia’s first screening of a multilingual Emirati film – the sexy and provocative City of Life. Director Ali Mostafa joins us for opening night.
• Beloved Palestinian director Elia Suleiman’s latest quirky, witty and visually luscious film examining his family story since 1948: The Time that Remains
• 12 Angry Lebanese – the story of Roumieh Prison inmates transformed into powerful theatre makers, directed by Zeina Daccache
• The world-first Arabian Nights Animation Collection: short animations influenced by everything from Sinbad to manga, that take us places Disney’s Aladdin could never touch
• Harragas: the harrowing tale of young Algerian lovers who make the mad, brave decision to attempt an escape to Spain by boat.
• Egyptian Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story, fresh from the Venice and Toronto film fests, following a woman juggling work, husband and politics in a tale of our time
• Kick Off: what starts as an uplifting soccer match has sinister consequences when it’s played in an Iraqi refugee shanty
• Our famous Makhlouta session of provocative international shorts, including local Arab-Australian filmmakers
• The renowned local oud player Mohamed Youssef playing live at the launch.
Opening night tickets are on sale now. $30 per person (film sweets party).
All other session ticket prices start from $10. Get your tickets early!
Spotlight on closing feature film....
The Time That Remains
Palestine’s much-loved director Elia Sulieman brings his signature mix of quirky wit and pathos to this personal film about Palestine since 1948. A favourite at Cannes (it was nominated for the Palm d’Or).
Here Suleiman deepens and develops his absurdist style, which draws on precise comic timing, elements of fantasy and his own presence on the screen, often compared to Buster Keaton. Drawing on his father’s personal stories, his mothers letters and his own experiences living under occupation in Palestine, during and after the ‘Nakba’ (the ‘Catastrophe’), when the State of Israel was created in 1948.
More on the festival program www.arabfilmfestival.com.au
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