Io Sto Bene: dir Donato Rotunno (2020)

Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu Dhabi

Writer-director Rotunno blends past and present in this understated melodrama. Antonio is an Italian who emigrated ti Luxembourg to find work. Now widowed, he is preparing to move out of his comfortable apartment to a care home. A chance encounter [ ... ]

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The Trap: dir Nadejda Koseva (2023)

Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu Dhabi

Bojeka is an eccentric man with a strong sense of his own dignity, who lives in solitude on the banks of the Danube in harmony with nature and a collection of animals. Then the local bigwigs want to create a [ ... ]

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Touki Bouki: dir Djibril Diop Mambéty (1973)

Efiɛ Gallery 2 Al Khayat Art Avenue, First Al Khail Street, Dubai

Mory, a sometime cattle herder, and his grilfriend Anta, a university student, yearn to leave their boring, circumscribed world and find prosperity and stability in France. The late Djibril Diop Mambéty was a true Senegalese auteur, an actor, orator, composer [ ... ]

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Remember to Blink: dir Austėja Urbaitė (2021)

Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu Dhabi

A French couple have adopted two children from Lithuania; they enlist the help of Gabriele, a young Lithuanian student, to serve as an interpreter and nanny. When the children arrive, the idyllic façade of the new family arrangement buckles under [ ... ]

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