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.
Wednesday, 6 April, 6pm
God's horses
Directed by Nabil Ayouch. Morocco, 2012, 113 minutes.
Based on the novel Les Étoiles de Sidi Moumen, by Mahi Binebine.
Synopsis
Little Yachine lives with his family in Sidi Moumen, a shanty town in Casablanca. With a depressed husband and four children to support, his mother does her best to support the family. When Hamid - Yachine's older brother and neighbourhood leader - is released from prison and converted to the cause of radical Islam, he convinces the young boy and his friends to join. After being trained physically, spiritually and mentally, one day they are told that they are the chosen ones to become martyrs...
Venue: Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies.
Calle San Jerónimo, 27, 18001 Granada.
Free admission until full capacity is reached.
With the collaboration of:
Spanish 
English 
French 
Portuguese