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Art Alert: DCAF brings comedy 'Longwave' to Cairo and Alexandria - TRAILER Longwave will be screened on three days in Cairo and Alexandria as part of D-CAF activities
Longwave [Les grandes ondes (àl'oest)] is a 2013 comedy directed by Lionel Baier. The film is a co-production by Switzerland, France and Portugal. It premiered in Paris in February 2014. The film presentsa small teamfrom theRadio Suisse Romandethat is commissioned to work on a story about Swiss aid in Portugal.But nothing goes according to the plan, since the journalists find themselves in the middle of the Carnation Revolution, a military coup that overthrew the regime of Estado Novo in April 1974. This entertaining take on the events in Portugal from the perspective of a team of journalists intertwines elements of comedy with struggles for freedom while the burlesque attitudes of the characters are at times topped with a dosage of melancholy. The screening will have English and Arabic subtitles. The film screening is part of the annual Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF) taking place between 20 March and 11 April in Cairo and Alexandria. Programme: Thursday 27 March at 9pm Odeon Cinema,4 Abdel Hamid Said St. off of Talaat Harb St (screening is part of cooperation between D-CAF and Zawya) Sunday 30 March at 7pm French Institute,30, El Nabi Danial St., Mahatet Misr,Alexandria Tuesday 1 April at 9pm Odeon Cinema,4 Abdel Hamid Said St. off of Talaat Harb St (screening is part of cooperation between D-CAF and Zawya) Ahram Online is the Main Press Partner of this year's D-CAF See D-CAF's complete programmehere. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/97485.aspx
