SHORT FILM PROGRAMME + Q&A with curator Joseph Fahim LILI | Marwan Hamed | 2001 | Egypt | 40 min HER MAN | Ayten Amin | 2006 | Egypt | 10 min I | Al Al Anssari | 2012 | Qatar | 17 min A MAN IN A CUP | Yahya Alabdallah | 2006 | Jordan […]
THE LAND / El Ard + Q&A with curator Joseph Fahim and writer Ahdaf Soueif Youssef Chahine | Egypt | 1969 | 130 min World Premiere of the Restored Version This 1969 masterpiece – voted 4th in Dubai Film Festival’s 2013 greatest Arab movies poll – is Egyptian film maker Youssef Chahine’s most beloved work in his home […]
FALLEN ANGELS PARADISE/Gannat Al Shayateen + Q&A with Joseph Fahim Oussama Fawzi | Egypt | 1999 | 79 min A middle-aged man dies of a drug overdose in a shabby Cairo bar, surrounded by his young thug brethren and his prostitute mistress. The man, the mistress reveals, has a wife and a daughter whom he deserted […]
WAJIB + Q&A with director Annemarie Jacir and curator Joseph Fahim Annemarie Jacir | Palestine | 2017 | 96 min Director Annemarie Jacir announces a new chapter of Palestinian cinema with her sensitively realized third feature. Her road movie stars veteran Palestinian thespian Mohammed Bakri in the role of a teacher, known and respected within his […]
SCHEHERAZADE’S DIARY/Yawmiyat Scheherazade + Q&A with curator Joseph Fahim Zeina Daccache | Lebanon | 2013 | 78 min The women inmates of Lebanon’s Baabda Prison mine the depths of personal experience and confront patriarchy as they prepare and present the first theatre performance staged inside an Arab women’s prison. Filmed during and after the ten-month drama […]
STORIES OF PASSERS THROUGH + Q&A with director, producer and screenwriter Koutaiba Al Janabi and curator Joseph Fahim Koutaiba Al Janabi | Iraq | 2018 | 67 min EUROPEAN PREMIERE This is the story of wanderers; of a nation that no longer exists; of people that are no longer there. This is the story of […]
HORSES OF GOD/Les Chevaux des Dieu + Q&A with author Mahi Binebine and curator Joseph Fahim Nabil Ayouch | Morocco | 2012 | 115 min Nabil Ayouch is widely considered Morocco’s most popular director; a filmmaker with a gift for tackling some of the most pressing issues of the day in an irresistibly watchable form. A gripping […]
OPIUM AND THE BATON/L’Opium et le Baton + Q&A with director Ahmed Rachedi and curator Joseph Fahim Ahmed Rachedi | Algeria | 1977 | 135 min Set amid the Algerian War of independence, an Algerian doctor decides to leave the troubles in Algiers and goes back to his hometown, a small village lost in the mountains. […]
THE SEARCH / El Tareeq + Q&A with curator Joseph Fahim Hossam El Din Moustafa | Egypt | 1964 | 105 min The carefree existence of a spoilt man comes to an end when his madam mother is arrested. With no education or tangible skills, the man’s only salvation lies in finding his mysterious, rich father […]
STILL BURNING/Nar Min Nar + Q&A with director Georges Hachem and curator Joseph Fahim Georges Hachem | Lebanon | 2016 | 110 min Amid shooting his latest production, a stranger emerges in the life of André, a successful Lebanese filmmaker living and working in France. Cinema is not the only the link between André and the […]