Synopsis:

Óscar, while waiting for his girlfriend, enters a bar whose walls are covered in photographs. Barman Jotó explains to him that these are the pictures of all the bar’s clients and their friends that have been collected over the years in order to decorate the bar. Óscar is curious and asks Jotó questions about many photographs and so learns about different people’s stories from the past.

color, 91 min

PROJECTION:

Wednesday 06.06.2007 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

This is director Daniel Sánchez Aréval’s debut. It tells the story of Jorge who, after his father’s stroke, has to take over the family business and care for his father. Forgetting about himself and his own life, Jorge will spend the next few years working as a housekeeper, at the same time trying hard to finish school and constantly taking care of his father. Through his brother, Jorge meets Paul and finally faces his own wishes and needs.

color, digital, 105 min

PROJECTION:

Wednesday 06.06.2007 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

Yehia is a filmmaker on his way to London for heart surgery. During the operation, his conscience appears (in fact himself as a young man) and starts to question his life. Through autobiographical sequences, the director ponders his life, work, home country and Egyptian revolution. This is the central film of Chahine’s Alexandria trilogy (the other two are Alexandria...why? and Alexandria again and again).

color, 115 min

PROJECTION:

Wednesday 27.06.2007 AT 19:00

Thursday 21.06.2007 AT 21:00

Thursday 07.06.2007 AT 16:30

Synopsis:

The two heroes of this film are Smadar (Smadar Sayar) and Mirit (Neama Shendar), eighteen-year-old Israelis who are currently in the army. They are completely different and cannot stand each other: Smadar is decisive, temperamental and outgoing while Mirit is an introverted and shy girl afraid of authority. Since their job is to patrol the streets of Jerusalem and identify Palestinians, they cannot escape each other.

color, 90 min

PROJECTION:

Thursday 07.06.2007 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

This film follows one day in the life of Malek, a young man who suffers from a sleep disorder. Like his mother, Malek is coping with the loss of love. The two of them go to sign papers that will officially confirm the death of his father, who has been missing for fifteen years following a war. Malek tries to find Zeine, his girlfriend who left him. He is not prepared to be left alone…

color, 88 min

PROJECTION:

Thursday 07.06.2007 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

This classic Chahine film has been proclaimed one of the best Egyptian films of all time. It deals with the topic of life in poor Egyptian rural areas during the 1940s. Villagers in a small village, already living in poor conditions, are forced to fight for survival after they learn that their land will be taken from them because a road will be built next to their village.

color, 130 min

PROJECTION:

Sunday 15.07.2007 AT 20:00

Friday 08.06.2007 AT 16:30

Synopsis:

The main actors in this film are the director and his actual wife and parents. He plays Isa, a university professor who is emotionally detached from his wife Bahar. Their dysfunctional relationship is additionally undermined by changes in the weather during their journey through three seasons: the story begins in the heat of summer, lasts throughout a rainy autumn and ends in a snowy winter.

color, 101'

PROJECTION:

Friday 08.06.2007 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

The director plays a man who returns to his home village. We follow the daily life in the village from the hero’s perspective: relationships between the villagers, friendships and hostilities, existing rituals and traditions. Hero’s best friend is an alcoholic who beats up his own sister because she has disgraced her family by leaving her cruel husband. The villagers build barricades in order to prevent the influence of foreign world views.

color, 104 min

PROJECTION:

Friday 08.06.2007 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

Engineer Hamdi accidentally causes the breakdown of an emergency car, which results in a car crash and a girl named Nadia’s father dies. Nadia loses her sight and not long after Hamdi saves her from drowning on a beach. Soon they fall in love and get married, but Nadia still does not know that Hamdi caused her father’s death. They have a son together, Ashraf, but Nadia’s hatred towards her husband grows quickly…

b/w, 110 min

PROJECTION:

Wednesday 27.06.2007 AT 21:00

Thursday 21.06.2007 AT 19:00

Saturday 09.06.2007 AT 16:30

Synopsis:

We follow one day in the lives of several twelve-year-old kids in a small Turkish village. Ömer is the son of the much respected imam of the community, who treats his son so badly that the son secretly prays for his father’s death. Yakup is in love with the village teacher, and after she finds out that Yakup’s father is also in love with her, he wishes for him to die as well. Yildiz balances between her obligations in school and at home, she takes care of her younger brother and her own mother w...

color, 111 min

PROJECTION:

Saturday 09.06.2007 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

On the French Riviera, on a hill above Cannes, Maguy lives with colorful friends who she takes care of: her friend Katya, a male couple Francis and Doudou and the newly arrived Mirko and Stefan. The two of them moved to France from Serbia and Maguy employed them to run errands for her. Mirko is her lover.

color, 107 min

PROJECTION:

Saturday 09.06.2007 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

The story takes place at a train station in Cairo, and the director, Youssef Chahine, plays the leading part of Qinawi. He is a simple and naďve newspaper salesman in love with Hanuma, a lemonade salesgirl. Even though she is indifferent towards Qinawi, she flirts with him because she wants to provoke her fiancée, Abou Serib.

b/w, 95 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 19.06.2007 AT 19:00

Monday 18.06.2007 AT 20:00

Sunday 10.06.2007 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

An alienated and resigned middle-aged man who once was a partisan returns to his hometown on an island for his cousin’s funeral. There he remembers his childhood, severe father, a Countess’s estate manager, and his first erotic experiences with the Countess’s daughter. This is Babaja’s most poetic film. It won many awards.

color, 35 mm, 110 min

PROJECTION:

Sunday 10.06.2007 AT 21:00