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SUMMARY:Reel Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Reel Palestine returns to Cinema Akil for its 12th edition\, running from 23 January to 1 February\,. The programme this year has 29 screenings\, including two Academy Award–nominated titles\, reflecting the breadth of contemporary Palestinian cinema across fiction\, documentary\, and short form. \nMost screenings are followed by a Q&A with the director or cast. Alongside the film programme\, the festival also includes two weekends of the RP Souk and a series of workshops. \nTickets for most screenings are AED 60. Note that Quoz Arts Fest takes place on 24 and 25 January\, so you’ll also need a ticket for that (AED 100 per day) before you can get to Cinema Akil …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/reel-palestine/
LOCATION:Cinema Akil\, Warehouse 68\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Fujifilm Short Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:This first festival of its kind by Fujifilm Middle East\, created with Cinema Akil and Gulf Photo Plus\, aims to “foster bold ideas\, nurture fresh perspectives\, and champion the next generation of storytellers”. More than 2\,000 submissions were whittled down to 20 shorts to be screened in four ‘blocks’: \n12 Dec  \n7pm Narrative\n9.30pm Experimental \n13 Dec \n5pm Documentary\n7.30pm Student \nScreenings are free\, but you’re recommended to book to guarantee a seat. \nThere’s also a series of four free workshops – no details about times or location\, though we assume they’ll be at GPP and in the afternoons. Again they are free to attend though preregistration is required: \nPocket Rocket: Creative Film Making On The Go A hands-on workshop for planning\, directing\, and producing creative solo filmmaking projects from concept to delivery. \nFrom Concept to Cut: The Complete Anatomy of a Music Video From idea development and production planning to directing\, shooting\, and post-production\, learn how commercial directors approach complex artist projects and build a visual identity that stands out \nUnfreeze the Moment: Video and Documentary Basics for Photographers A workshop sdesigned for photographers transitioning to motion ythat covers camera movement\, essential video settings\, sequencing\, and visual language \nBacking Up: Systems of Organization for the Backend of Filmmaking This workshop will cover the tools that can be used to organise filmmaking projects\, budgets\, contracts\, file management and more. info and more. Includes a live exchange session designed to help filmmakers build smarter\, more repeatable production structures \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/fujifilm-short-film-festival/
LOCATION:Cinema Akil\, Warehouse 68\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
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SUMMARY:Permission to Narrate
DESCRIPTION:A Reel Palestine capsule programme of six films which challenge narratives that have long marginalised Palestinian voices\, advocating for an embrace and amplification of their stories. \nBab El Shams (Gate of the Sun): dir Yousri Nasrallah (2004)\nA powerful film that spans 50 years of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict\, based around a group of Palestinian refugees who were expelled from Galilee in 1948 (above).\n15 May 7pm \nDivine Intervention: dir Elia Suleiman (2002)\nA romantic comedy with a twist: separated by a checkpoint\, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah have to arrange clandestine meetings.\n17 May 7pm | 18 May 5pm \nTomorrow’s Freedom – Marwan Barghouti: dir Georgia Scott & Sophia Scott (2022)\nFor five years\, Georgia and Sophia Scott followed the family of imprisoned Palestinian political leader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Marwan Barghouti\, who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison.\n17 May 9pm | 19 May 7pm \nThe Tower: dir Mats Grorud (2018)\nAn animated tale of 11-year-old Wardi\, a Palestinian girl who lives with her whole family in the refugee camp where she was born. She learns about her family’s history through stories told to her by three generations of refugees.\n18 May 3pm | 19 May 3.30pm \nRana’s Wedding: dir Hany Abu-Assad (2002)\nRana wakes up one morning to an ultimatum: she must either choose a husband from a preselected list of men\, or she must leave Palestine for Egypt with her father afternoon. With ten hours to find her boyfriend in occupied Jerusalem\, she sneaks out of her father’s house at daybreak to find her forbidden love.\n18 May 7pm | 19 May 9.15pm \nJenin\, Jenin: dir Mohammad Bakri (2002)\nDocumentary about the 2002 deadly confrontations between armed Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.\n18 May 9pm | 19 May 5.30pm
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/permission-to-narrate/
LOCATION:Cinema Akil\, Warehouse 68\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Reel Palestine 2024
DESCRIPTION:The UAE’s annual festival of Palestinian stories delivered via independent and alternative cinema is back\, and with massively enhanced relevance. The films\, mostly in Arabic with English subtitles\, are … \nThe Teacher dir Farah Nabulsi (2023) A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students and the chance of a new romantic relationship with a British volunteer worker \n26 Jan 7pm (screening plus Q&A with director)\n4 Feb 5pm 7pm 9.30pm \nHere and Elsewhere dir Jean-Luc Godard\, Jean-Pierre Gorin\, Groupe Dziga Vertov\, Anne-Marie Miéville (1976) Commissioned to produce a film on the Palestinian Revolution\, Godard and Gorin’s plans were upended by the Black September attacks. Godard and Miéville transformed the original footage into a scathing self-critical documentary\, paralleling the lives of a French and a Palestinian family \n​26 Jan 10pm \nR21 AKA Restoring Solidarity dir Mohanad Yacubi (2022) The growing struggle for Palestinian self-determination between 1960 and 1980 was supported by radical left-wing movements worldwide. This is illustrated by a collection of 16mm films by militant filmmakers from various countries\, which were dubbed and screened in Japan – where audiences sympathised but also identified with the Palestinians \n2 Feb 7pm \nAida Returns dir Carol Mansour (2023) A poignant\, sometimes painful\, sometimes humorous\, often absurd story of a multiple journey: the journey of loss as the director’s mother Aida struggled with losing herself to Alzheimer’s disease\, but finding solace in her repeated “returning” to the Yafa and Palestine of her youth; the journey of the loss of a parent; and the ultimate return journey back to Yafa where Aida would finally find rest and be herself once more \n27 Jan 7pm (screening plus Q&A with director)\n3 Feb 9.30pm \nLyd dir Rami Younes\, Sarah Ema Friedland (2023) A sci fi documentary of a city that once connected Palestine to the world — what it once was\, what it is now\, and what it could have become. \n27 Jan 9pm\n31 Jan 7pm (screening plus Q&A with directors) \nSlingshot Hip Hop dir Jacqueline Reem Salloum (2008) A documents on the emergence and evolution of Palestinian Hip Hop\, weaving together the narratives of young artists navigating life in Gaza\, the West Bank\, and Palestine \n27 Jan 8pm (outdoor screening at The Yard) \nWe No Longer Prefer Mountains dir Inas Halabi (2023) Documentary on the Druze towns of Dalyet el Carmel and Isfiya\, drawing the viewer into a world of geographic isolation and a locale shaped by coercion and control. Weaving together intimate engagements with members of the community in shared domestic spaces and outdoor environments\, the film explores how the inner politics of the Druze have been reconfigured and reshaped since 1948 \n27 Jan 9.15pm (screening plus Q&A with director)\n1 Feb 9.15pm \nTomorrow’s Freedom: Marwan Barghouti dir Georgia Scott\, Sophia Scott (2022) For five years\, the directors followed the family of imprisoned Palestinian political leader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Marwan Barghouti; the resulting film shares the struggles of his hunger strikes\, brought on by harsh prison conditions and the desire to make a stand. A collage of interviews with the people who know him best\, Tomorrow’s Freedom paints a portrait of a man who may one day lead the Palestinian people \n28 Jan 4.15pm (screening plus Q&A with director)\n31 Jan 9.15pm \nThree Promises dir Yousef Srouji (2023) A mother films her family’s daily life the second intifada in the West Bank in the early 2000s. Her son revisits this past\, delivering a heart-breaking film that conveys the anguish of children and their parents who are forced to choose between safety and emotional upheaval \n29 Jan 9.15pm\n30 Jan 7pm (screening plus Q&A with director) \nBye Bye Tiberias dir Lina Soualem (2023) 30 years ago\, Hiam Abbass left her native village in Galilee to follow her acting dream in France. Camera in hand\, her daughter Lina questions her mother’s bold choices and the way the women in her family – who she has left behind – have influenced her life \n28 Jan 7pm (screening plus Q&A with director)\n29 Jan 7pm \nShort Film Programme Four shorts\, total run time about 90 minutes \n30 Jan 9pm (screenings plus Q&A with Red Passport protagonist Yara Alsaade)\n1 Feb 7pm (screenings plus Q&A with Heavy Metal director Waleed Abu Nada) \nNotes On Displacement dir Khaled Jarrar (2022) Documentary following a single family of refugees on a gruelling journey to Germany. Their fear\, disorientation\, and solidarity is palpable \n2 Feb 9pm\n3 Feb 7pm (screening plus Q&A with director) \n\nUnless otherwise noted\, screenings are at Cinema Akil; tickets are normally AED 52.50. Note that Quoz Art fest runs 27 and 28 January\, and for films on those dates you’ll have to pay extra to actually get into Alserkal Avenue (AED 63 for the weekend\, and well worth it anyway).
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/reel-palestine-2024/
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SUMMARY:Bellissima | Beautiful: dir Luchino Visconti (1951)
DESCRIPTION:A newly restored print of this black-and-white classic. It’s a pointed satire on the film industry; Maddalena (Anna Magnani) is a screenstruck mother convinced of the star potential of her daughter Maria (Tina Apicella) and desperate to escape of everyday existence in working-class Rome. But overhearing the film crew’s candid assessment of her daughter’s audition\, Maddalena is forced to reconsider her views on the film industry and its world of illusions … Highly recommended.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/bellissima-beautiful-dir-luchino-visconti-1951/
LOCATION:Cinema Akil\, Warehouse 68\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
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SUMMARY:Aftersun: dir Charlotte Wells (2022)
DESCRIPTION:Charlotte Wells’ stunning feature debut movingly portrays a father-daughter relationship. Calum (Paul Mescal) and Sophie (Frankie Corio) are on a week’s holiday in Turkey; it’s a chance for the two to re-bond\, and they do. Twenty years later\, Sophie’s tender recollections of their last holiday become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship\, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t … Very highly recommended.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/aftersun-dir-charlotte-wells-2022/
LOCATION:Cinema Akil\, Warehouse 68\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Star Wars: A New Hope dir George Lucas (1977)
DESCRIPTION:The first\, and arguably the best – if only because of the impact of the opening titles. Universally acknowledged as a landmark in action films and featuring Mark Hamill\, Harrison Ford\, and Carrie Fisher in their prime (plus Alec Guinness to lend gravitas and Peter Mayhew in the Chewbacca suit). Unmissable.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/star-wars-a-new-hope-dir-george-lucas-1977/
LOCATION:Cinema Akil\, Warehouse 68\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Film
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