On the occasion of the next Seville Book Fair, the Fundación Tres Culturas offers in its April programme a series of films based on literary works or that make known the existence, in this case, of a poetess unknown to the general public. In addition, this cycle coincides with the Three Festivals, voices of the Mediterraneanorganised in the framework of the programme Alqantara: bridges for dialogue and coexistenceFrom 28 to 30 April in Granada.
In our cinematographic proposal for this month, literature and cinema go hand in hand with stories that will not leave us indifferent. We will open the cycle with Papuszathe story of a courageous woman who defied her surroundings by expressing through her poems her way of seeing the world. Afterwards, the writer Yasmina Kadhra and the French director Alexandre Arcady will show in the film What the day owes to the night The last film to be screened is the film "The Algerian youth and society of the 1930s. Away from menbased on the story The guestby the French-Algerian writer Albert Camus.
Tuesday, 19 April, 8.30 p.m.
What the day owes to the night
Directed by Alexandre Arcady, France, 2012, 159 minutes.
Based on the novel by Yasmina Kadhra.
Synopsis
Younes is 9 years old when his father goes bankrupt and decides to entrust the child to his brother, a pharmacist in the western community of Oran. Now, Younes' new name is Jonas, and he grows up among young settlers with whom he becomes inseparable friends. With them, he discovers the joys of a privileged existence that neither the Second World War nor the convulsions of a burgeoning Arab nationalism can disturb. Until the day Émilie arrives in town, a fascinating young woman who will become the object of their desire and who will test the fraternal complicity of the four friends.
The film will be screened in the original version with Spanish subtitles. Free admission until full capacity is reached.
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