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SUMMARY:Seeking Haven for Mr Rambo: dir Khaled Mansour (2024)
DESCRIPTION:Tensions boil over when 30-year-old Cairo security guard Hassan (Essam Omar) gets into an argument with his bullish landlord Karem (Ahmed Bahaa)\, Hassan’s beloved dog Rambo steps up to defend his master via a bite to Karem’s privates. Vengeance beckons; Hassan embarks on an urgent mission to find a safe place for his canine companion\, and in the process rediscovers self-respect. \nThe feature debut from Khaled Mansour brings a distinctively gritty flavour to its vision of lives on the fringes of working class Cairo and announces Mansour as a notable talent in Egyptian independent filmmaking; the film\, which premiered in Venice’s Horizons Extra strand\, screens in the CinemaNA series and is presented by the NYUAD Film and New Media Program. \nIn Arabic with English subtitles.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/seeking-haven-for-mr-rambo-dir-khaled-mansour-2024/
LOCATION:The Arts Center @ NYUAD\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250401T080000
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SUMMARY:Les Félins | Joy House: dir René Clément (1963)
DESCRIPTION:Alan Delon is Marc\, a petty criminal on the run from American gangsters\, who seeks refuge in a mission for the poor where wealthy widow Barbara (Lola Albright) hires him as her chauffeur and moves him to her Riviera château. Barbara’s niece (Jane Fonda) becomes attracted to Marc\, but then it gets complicated: Barbara is hiding her lover Vincent\, a bank robber sought by the police for murdering her husband\, and they’re planning to murder Marc for his passport … and the gangsters have got wind of Marc’s whereabouts. There are bodies … \nThe film is satisfyingly twisted\, almost film noir in its plotting but defiantly European in style.  It’s in French with English subtitles; the screening will be followed by a discussion with Hind Mezaina (who’s curating this season for AF). \nThe price incidentally is for non-members; for AF members it’s free.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/les-felins-joy-house-dir-rene-clement-1963/
LOCATION:Alliance Française Dubai\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250411T173000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250411T190000
DTSTAMP:20250409T131715Z
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SUMMARY:Aseel AlYaqoub: three films
DESCRIPTION:A screening of three films by Aseel AlYaqoub\, currently featuring in the NYUAD Art Gallery’s important Between the Tides: A Gulf Quinquennial exhibition (due to close on 20 April and well work seeing – again\, if you’ve already been). \nThrough archival excavation and performative reenactment\, AlYaqoub explores the entanglements of militarism\, memory\, and inherited state rituals in postcolonial Kuwait. Drawing from found footage\, oral accounts\, and domestic gestures\, the selected films – When The Lyrebird Calls (2022)\, A Hundred Soldiers Somersaulting (2020)\, and Semiotics of War in the Kitchen (2017)  – trace the evolving iconography of war and resistance\, from colonial influence to familial memory. Together\, they question the reliability of inherited symbols and the quiet absurdities embedded in national myth-making. \nThe screening will be followed by a moderated discussion with the artist.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/aseel-alyaqoub-three-films/
LOCATION:The Arts Center @ NYUAD\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250416T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250416T203000
DTSTAMP:20250415T144035Z
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SUMMARY:Diamanti: dir Ferzan Özpetek (2024)
DESCRIPTION:A dazzling film set in n 1970s Rome in a dressmaking atelier for film and theatre. The atelier is directed by two very different sisters\, one determined and slightly despotic\, the other more fragile and tormented. An important order comes in for a huge film set in the eighteenth century: the costume designer is an Oscar winner\, the director is equally demanding. The dressmakers get to work; they don’t have much time\, but plenty to contend with\, including a rivalry between two prima donnas who should be prevented from crossing paths when trying on their costumes. And each of the dressmakers has their own problems at home too … \nThere’s a little bit of everything in the film: humour and drama\, sisterhood and competition\, grave losses\, loves that might have been\, secret relationships. The outfits are dazzling\, and the sets and lighting do them justice. The result is a genuine crowd-pleaser\, deploying a big cast of well-known Italian actresses (18\, in all) and set in its entirety in this most glamorous of locales. \nThe film is in Italian\, with English subtitles. It screens in the NAAS: She Reel series\, which is labelled ‘Women in Society: Stories That Inspire\, Change That Empowers’ and features films that are dedicated to highlighting women’s stories and raising awareness about the realities and roles of women in our lives. \nHighly recommended.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/diamanti-dir-ferzan-ozpetek-2024/
LOCATION:Manarat al Saadiyat\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250417T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250417T210000
DTSTAMP:20250415T145734Z
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SUMMARY:En Fanfare | The Marching Band: dir Emmanuel Courcol (2024)
DESCRIPTION:The third feature film from screenwriter\, actor and director Emmanuel Courcol is a sensitive work that matches music and meaningful relationships. Thibaut\, an acclaimed orchestra conductor\, diagnosed with leukaemia \,discovers that he is adopted when a DNA test to find a possible bone marrow donor reveals a biological brother\, Jimmy. The two meet up;  Jimmy is a factory worker who plays trombone in a local marching band. When the band loses its conductor\, Thibaut steps in as replacement\, and the brothers learn more about the circumstances that have shaped each other’s lives … \nThis screening\, which is in French with English subtitles\, opens SUAD’s Francofilm Festival– a series of five films showing on consecutive nights between 19 and 23 April\, celebrating the French language and the diversity of Francophone cinema.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/en-fanfare-the-marching-band-dir-emmanuel-courcol-2024/
LOCATION:Germaine Tillion Garden\, SUAD Campus\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250419T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250419T210000
DTSTAMP:20250415T150316Z
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SUMMARY:Une part manquante | A Missing Part: dir Guillaume Senez (2024)
DESCRIPTION:Belgian filmmaker Guillaume Senez has always been fascinated with personal responsibility and family dynamics. His latest film\, which premiered at last autumn’s Toronto Film Festival\, fits the mould; it tells the story of a father’s struggle to reconnect with his estranged daughter in a place that doesn’t take too kindly to foreigners like him. Working as a driver for a private car service in Tokyo\, French expat Jay has never been able to get custody of his daughter Lily; for nine years he has used his occupation to travel the length and breadth of Tokyo in his cab\, looking for his daughter … Just when he decides to give up and move back to France\, a chance encounter opens up the possibility that he might actually find with his daughter. \nThis screening\, which is in French with English subtitles\, is part of SUAD’s Francofilm Festival– a series of five films showing on consecutive nights between 19 and 23 April\, celebrating the French language and the diversity of Francophone cinema.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/une-part-manquante-a-missing-part-dir-guillaume-senez-2024/
LOCATION:Germaine Tillion Garden\, SUAD Campus\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250421T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250421T210000
DTSTAMP:20250415T150817Z
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SUMMARY:Hors d’haleine | Breathing Underwater: dir Eric Lamhene (2024)
DESCRIPTION:This emotional\, character-driven drama is set in the secretive world of a women’s shelter. It tells the story of Emma (Carla Juri) who arrives at the shelter in the dead of night\, covered in bruises and unexpectedly pregnant. As she grapples with her pregnancy and her emotional shackles to her husband Marc\, Emma rediscovers lost facets of herself through her unlikely camaraderie and strife with the women and children of the shelter; individual traumas intertwine and a delicate sisterhood emerges as they push one another to fight for their self-worth and independence. \nThis screening\, which is in French with English subtitles\, is part of SUAD’s Francofilm Festival– a series of five films showing on consecutive nights between 19 and 23 April\, celebrating the French language and the diversity of Francophone cinema.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/hors-dhaleine-breathing-underwater-dir-eric-lamhene-2024/
LOCATION:Germaine Tillion Garden\, SUAD Campus\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250422T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250422T210000
DTSTAMP:20250415T151433Z
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SUMMARY:Back To Alexandria: dir Tamer Ruggli (2023)
DESCRIPTION:After 20 years in Switzerland\, Sue (Nadine Labaki) returns to her homeland Egypt to visit her dying mother (Fanny Ardant). Their complicated relationship is revealed on a road trip from Cairo to Alexandria; during their journey through Egypt’s beautiful landscape\, the reasons why Sue has not been in her homeland for so many years are uncovered … This is a charming and thought-provoking film about nostalgia\, homeland\, and confronting past traumas.\, supported by some excellent acting from the two leads. \nThis screening\, which is in French with English subtitles\, is part of SUAD’s Francofilm Festival– a series of five films showing on consecutive nights between 19 and 23 April\, celebrating the French language and the diversity of Francophone cinema.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/back-to-alexandria-dir-tamer-ruggli-2023/
LOCATION:Germaine Tillion Garden\, SUAD Campus\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250423T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250423T210000
DTSTAMP:20250415T152755Z
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SUMMARY:Humanist vampire seeking consenting suicidal person: dir Ariane Louis-Seize (2023)
DESCRIPTION:This Canadian vampire comedy horror stars Sara Montpetit as Sasha\, a young vampire with a serious problem: she’s too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply\, Sasha’s life is in jeopardy; luckily\, she meets Paul\, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. Their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfil Paul’s last wishes before day breaks … It’s a film that has a lot of fun with the vampire motifs\, while at heart it’s a love story for teen misfits. \nThis screening\, which is in French with English subtitles\, is part of SUAD’s Francofilm Festival– a series of five films showing on consecutive nights between 19 and 23 April\, celebrating the French language and the diversity of Francophone cinema.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/humanist-vampire-seeking-consenting-suicidal-person-dir-ariane-louis-seize-2023-2/
LOCATION:Germaine Tillion Garden\, SUAD Campus\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250425T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250425T220000
DTSTAMP:20250403T104356Z
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SUMMARY:Fragments from Heaven: dir Adnane Baraka (2022)
DESCRIPTION:In the bleak emptiness of the Moroccan desert\, a nomad shepherd called Mohamed lives in a tent with his family. His way of life is disappearing; the land is so dry (presumably as a result of climate change) that there is not enough grass for sheep to graze. He describes watching a meteor shower – blue fire lighting up the sky followed by a noise so loud people thought it was an earthquake – and he joins men looking for the debris … \nAdnane Baraka’s cinematic essay about the origins of human life screens in dialogue with the ongoing Abdullah Al Saadi exhibition Sites of Memory\, Sites of Amnesia as part of a film programme curated by researcher and scholar Rasha Salti that invites audiences to reflect on the intricate interplay between remembrance and forgetting\, evoking profound connections to collective and personal histories.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/fragments-from-heaven-dir-adnane-baraka-2022/
LOCATION:421 Arts Campus\, Mina Zayed\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250430T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250430T203000
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SUMMARY:A plein temps: dir Eric Gravel (2021)
DESCRIPTION:Single mother Julie (César award-winning actress Laure Calamy) works a grueling job as a head chambermaid in a five-star Parisian hotel while struggling to raise her two children at the end of a commuter line. A job opportunity arises that could change her life\, but a national transport strike threatens everything … With gripping pacing and a masterful performance by Calamy\, the film captures the emotional and physical toll of modern-day survival in an unequal society .. \nThe film is in French\, with English subtitles. It screens in the NAAS: She Reel series\, which is labelled ‘Women in Society: Stories That Inspire\, Change That Empowers’ and features films that are dedicated to highlighting women’s stories and raising awareness about the realities and roles of women in our lives.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/a-plein-temps-dir-eric-gravel-2021/
LOCATION:Manarat al Saadiyat\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film
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