The Arab movies cycle is back
31 May 2018 | Corporate news
The new cycle of Arab cinema that starts on Tuesday 19 June will include movies telling the stories of anonymous people live, love or suffer in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Egypt.
Those productions could be seen at the 2018 Tangier-Tarifa African Film Festival, with which the IEMed is now co-organizing this cycle in Barcelona.
Aala kaf ifrit (Beauty and the Dogs), a film directed by Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia) and selected for the “Un certain regard” section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, will open the cycle. It tells the story of the long night in which a young Tunisian woman, Mariam, defends her dignity and her rights in the face of a society that does not believe her word.
On Thursday 21 June, a movie Vent du nord, directed by Tunisian Walid Mattar will be screened. It is the story of Hervé, the only worker who agrees to leave together with his company relocated from the north of France to Tunisia to become a fishmonger; and Foued, a young Tunisian who accepts to work at the company in hopes of improving his financial situation. Two a priori different characters but with very similar life trajectories.
Ward Masmoum (Poisonous Roses), by Egyptian Ahmed Fawzi Saleh, scheduled for June 26, tells the story of two brothers trapped in the neighborhoods of Egyptian tanners, from where Saqr wants to escape. But his sister Taheya, who every day walks the same path through alleys with almost no sunlight to bring him lunch, wants to stop him at any cost.
And finally, this year’s edition will close on June 28 with En attendant les hirondelles (Waiting for the swallows), by Algerian director Karim Moussaoui. A film where we discover contemporary Algeria through the faces of Mourad, Aicha and Dahma; three characters from different generations caught between the past and the present.
All screenings will take place in the IEMed auditorium at 7 pm on VOSE and are free of charge.