Synopsis: A fascinating look at how President Josip Broz Tito helped create and define the identity of the post-World War II Federal state of Yugoslavia. The film tracks the history of former Yugoslavia through its cinema.
Duration: 100 min
Country: (...)
Synopsis: This documentary records how the last living interpreter of a five-million verse Arab epic ballad poem is passed on by its last living interpreter to his grandson. This film documents the struggle of generations and a world caught between (...)
Synopsis: As the head of an agricultural holding inherited from her ancestors, Madame Fatma reflects upon her memories and discusses the past with a son, who for many years had broken all ties with his family and country.
Duration: 57 min
Country: (...)
Synopsis: A mass female emigration took place from the Gorsika region in Slovenia to Egypt during the construction of the Suez Canal in the second half of the 19th century. This film recounts the work they did for rich European families working in (...)
Synopsis: Hollywood, 1927. As a star of the silent movies George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion.
Duration: 100 min
Country: France
Programme:
Wednesday 23 November, 9.30pm - Cinema Galaxy, 67 (...)
Synopsis: Polish Ewa works as an au-pair in a small town in Holland. When a rape occurs, Ewa suspects that she knows the rapist. Having no one to share this knowledge with, she becomes increasingly alienated from the people around her until she is (...)
Synopsis: A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage.
Prize of Youth, Cannes Film Festival 2011
Duration: 117 min
Country: Spain
Programme:
28 November, 9:30pm - Galaxy (...)
Synopsis: John McGill is about to start secondary school, where he fully expects to continue his so-far glittering academic career. His friendship with middle-class Julian shines a light on both his poor background and the dysfunction of his (...)
Synopsis: The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organisation and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
Duration: 165 min
Country: (...)
Synopsis: A young couple, Romeo and Juliette, wrestle with their child's cancer diagnosis. The story of a struggle and a great love.
Duration: 100 min
Country: France
Programme:
Thursday 24 November, 1pm - Cinema City Stars, Omar Ibn El Khattab St., (...)
Synopsis: As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatise the water supply.
Duration: 103 min
Country: Spain
Programme:
Thursday 24 November, (...)
Synopsis: Another ground–breaking film by Wim Wenders, who beautifully captures the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in the summer of 2009.
Duration: 106 min
Country: Germany
Programme:
Friday 25 (...)
Title: LES MAINS EN L'AIR (HANDS UP)
Directed by: Romain Goupil
Synopsis: March 22, 2067. Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends.
Starring: Valeria Bruni (...)
Synopsis:The story of a chimp taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child in the 1970s. Nim became the focus of a landmark experiment, which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised & nurtured (...)
Synopsis:A cult documentary that reconstructs the rise and fall of revolutionary utopias in the 1960s and 1970s. Strong pictures, bloody, ironic, upsetting and instructive.
Duration:180 min
Country:France
Programme:
Wednesday 25 November, 1:00 (...)
Synopsis:A moving account of Iran's 2010 Green Revolution. The Green Wave uses collage and illustration to tell the stories of the demonstrators as they bravely fought for change and reform under ultra-conservative President Mahmoud (...)
Synopsis:Jihan El-Tahri reconstructs thirty years of Cold War from a new angle: the engagement of 500,000 Cubans who came to help the African countries to stop colonial servitude.
Duration:179mins
Country:France
Programme:
Saturday 26 (...)
Synopsis:A look at the Romanian revolution of 1989 including the fall, attempted flight, and Christmas-day execution of President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena.
Duration:106 min
Country:Germany
Programme:
Tuesday 29 November, (...)
Synopsis:From 2009 till 2011, Manon Loizeau succeeded in clandestinely collecting testimonies from inside Iran about the two years of revolt and repression.
Duration:90 min
Country:France
Programme:
Monday 28 November, 1.00 pm -Galaxy (...)
Synopsis:Tahrir 2011 is a laudable attempt to steer away from reportage and reflect on what historians will index as the first chapter of the uprising. Structured in three chapters, the film playfully debunks misconceptions and (...)
Synopsis: One hour before the State Opening of Parliament, something very unusual happens. The Prime Minister demands an adjustment to the Queen's speech. The speech concerns aid to Africa. Even with all the pressure around the State Opening, (...)
Synopsis: After being abandoned by his father, 12-year-old Cyril meets Samantha, who offers to take him in during week-ends. Bitter and angry, Cyril is yet to understand and appreciate the affection that Samantha gives him, an affection that he (...)
Synopsis: A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Duration: 113 min
Country: United Kingdom
Programme:
Wednesday 23 November, 3.30 pm - (...)
Synopsis: 15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life.
Duration: 97 min
Country: United (...)
Title: THE GREEN WAVE
Synopsis: A moving account of Iran's 2010 Green Revolution. The Green Wave uses collage and illustration to tell the stories of the demonstrators as they bravely fought for change and reform under ultra-conservative President (...)