• Music and Sound Club: Session #1 Tape Loop Manipulation

    SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    Sharjah Art Foundation’s Music and Sound Club is a series of fortnightly hands-on workshops and meetup sessions form anyone interested in music and sonic arts. In this first workshop on Tape Loop Manipulation, participants woll learn how to open, splice [... more]

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  • The Time That Remains: dir Elia Suleiman (2009)

    SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    Semi-autobiographical drama of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation, chronicling the experiences of a Nazareth-based family from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War to the early 21st century. Structured in four historical episodes, the narrative traces generational struggles with displacement, military occupation, and daily [... more]

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  • West Beirut: dir Ziad Doueri (1998)

    SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    A drama about the 1975 Lebanese Civil War: high schooler Tarek treats the conflict like an adventure, filming Super 8 movies and navigating dangerous borders as a game. Amid rising family tensions, Tarek spends time with May an orphaned Christian [... more]

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  • SAF Book Club Meetup: Theories of Photography

    SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    SAF's August book club meetup will explore how our perspectives shape the way we interpret photographs. Through books such as On Photography by Susan Sontag, Listening to Images by Tina M. Campt and Photography’s Orientalism by Ali Behdad and Luke [... more]

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  • 2001 A Space Odyssey: dir Stanley Kubrick (1968)

    SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    Kubrick redefined sci-fi movies with 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential ever made. It wasn't just the scientifically accurate depiction of spaceflight and the pioneering special effects, or even the [... more]

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  • Mobile Portrait Photography

    SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    Vantage Point 13 artist Luisa Dörr introduces different ways of approaching portraiture today, through observation, collaboration and visual storytelling using a smartphone. A series of hands-on guided exercises will help participants beyond quick snapshots to consider how gesture, environment and [... more]

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  • Journey to The Moon (Rihla Ila Alqamar): dir Hamada Abdelwahab (1959)

    SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    An Egyptian space travel adventure-comedy, complete with dance numbers, drinking games, and a cardboard robot called Otto. In Cairo, eccentric German scientist Mr Sharfin is about to launch the first rocket to the moon. Astronomer Ahmed Rushdy is on site [... more]

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  • A Cosmic Voyage: dir Vasilij Zuravlëv (1936)

    SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    This Soviet-era silent film was one of the earliest to represent a realistic spaceflight, including weightlessness. It's pitched in the year 1946, with Professor Sedikh, who is planning to lead the first crewed exploration to the Moon, denounced by a [... more]

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  • Mirai: dir Mamoru Hosoda (2018)

    SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    Animated feature with a story that has a surprising and affecting emotional depth. Four-year-old Kun becomes jealous of his new baby sister Mirai; one day, he storms off into the garden, where he encounters people from the past and future [... more]

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  • Sirocco and The Kingdom of the Winds: dir Benoît Chieux (2023)

    SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    This slightly trippy animation features two intrepid sisters, four-year-old Juliette and eight-year-old Carmen, who discover a passage into the extraordinary world of their favourite book, Kingdom of the Air Streams. Transformed into cats and separated from each other, the girls [... more]

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  • Song of the Sea: dir Tomm Moore (2014)

    SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    This engaging animated feature takes inspiration from the Selkies of Irish folklore, who live as seals in the sea but become humans on land. 10-year-old Ben and his mute little sister Saoirse, the last Seal-child, embark on a fantastic journey [... more]

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