Arab Film Screenings in São Paulo
October 11th, 2006 by Andre Soares
São Paulo’s Arab Cultural Institute and the Museum of Images and Sound are currently sponsoring the exhibit Mundo Árabe (Arab World), with a screening of seven films from Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Mauritania.
Among the titles are Jillali Farhati’s La Plage des enfants perdus / The Beach of Lost Children (1991, Morocco), the story of a pregnant girl who discovers that her stepmother wants to take her child from her after its birth; Atef al-Tayeb’s Leila Sakhina / A Hot Night (1994, Egypt), which follows two Cairo residents in dire financial straits; and Danielle Arbid’s Maarek hob / In the Battlefields (2004, Lebanon), set during the 1983 civil war.
All films are being screened with Portuguese subtitles.
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The Beach of Lost Children is quite good.