Once again, the Fundación Tres Culturas is looking to the world of cinema for works based on literature or works that make known the existence of writers who are unknown to the general public.
This series is organised in Granada (April 6, 13 and 21) in collaboration with the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies on the occasion of the celebration of 'Three Festivals, voices of the Mediterranean', in the framework of the programme 'Alqantara: bridges for dialogue and coexistence', which aims to address the major debates in the current Mediterranean area. This literary meeting will bring together leading writers from all over the Mediterranean from the 28th to the 30th of this month in the capital of Granada.
The pairing of film and literature has yielded excellent results, as both have storytelling as their main objective; although they use different languages, both are nourished by the human thirst for stories.
The literary field gives rise to the invention of stories to be told through images. That is why we propose three very topical titles, starting with God's horseswhich immerses us in the atmosphere of misery and desperation that leads the protagonist to seek a way out in radical extremism. Written by Mahi Binebine and brought to the screen by the Moroccan Nabil Ayouch, it will not leave the audience indifferent.
By writer Abraham B. Yehoshua and Israeli director Eran Riklis, The human resources manager's journey shows the difficult relationships, or lack of them, in a Jerusalem bread factory.
Finally, the Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra and the French director Alexandre Arcady show in the film What the day owes to the night Algeria's troubled society in the 1930s.
Thursday, 21 April, 18.00 hours
What the day owes to the night
Alexandre Arcady. France, 2012, 159 mins.
Based on the novel of the same name by Yasmina Khadra.
Synopsis
When his father goes bankrupt, little Younes is entrusted to his uncle, a pharmacist in the western community of Oran (Algeria). From now on, he would be Jonas, and would become inseparable from the young settlers. A privileged existence that neither the Second World War nor the upheavals of Arab nationalism disturb. Until the day Émilie arrives in town, a fascinating young woman who will become the object of their desire and who will put their friendship to the test.
Venue: Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies.
Calle San Jerónimo, 27, 18001 Granada.
Free admission until full capacity is reached.
With the collaboration of:
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