Cerrar los ojos / Close Your Eyes: dir Víctor Erice (2023)

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

The Spirit of the Beehive director’s first feature in 30 years used a film-within-a-film structure to ruminate on memory, ageing and cinema itself. A famous Spanish actor, Julio Arenas, disappears while filming; although his body is never found, the police [ ... ]

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The Taste of Freedom: dir Oleksandr Berezan (2023)

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

A young cook runs away from home to pursue her dream of becoming a chef at a prestigious restaurant in the city – but when she stumbles upon a cookbook from 1929, authored by the legendary chef Olga Franko, her [ ... ]

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