Consolidating an activity that combines our usual commitment to Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cinema with the traditional summer sessions of open-air screenings, the Fundación Tres Culturas is organising the third edition of its Summer Cinema, an event that also responds to the widespread demand from an audience that has welcomed this proposal with enthusiasm.
This cyclewhich will take place every Monday in July.The film, which is a film festival, gives us the opportunity to meet the cinema of these regions in four events in which a sense of humour is the predominant feature. From the relations between Israelis and Palestinians seen through the lens of a battle against a telephone company in No mobile phoneThe story of the efforts of musicians to give a concert with a woman in a country where they are forbidden to sing in a female voice. Half moonand themes such as old age, euthanasia and friendship in The farewell party and understanding between people of different religious and cultural backgrounds in the The rabbi's cat.
The Andalusian Gardens of the Foundation are once again the ideal space for our summer cinema, prepared to accommodate the needs of the public (including an ambigú). As in previous editions, the films will start at 22.00 hours, with the sunset.
Location: Jardines Andaluces, Fundación Tres Culturas.
Date: every Monday in July.
Time: 22.00 hours approximately (after sunset).
Address: Hassan II Pavilion. C/ Max Planck 2. Isla de la Cartuja, Sevilla CP. 41092.
Contact: Tel. 954088030 www.tresculturas.org
How to get there:
By bike
Open access from Camino de los Descubrimientos (cycle lane)
By public transport
City bus lines: C1 and C2
Free admission until full capacity is reached.
All films will be screened in the original version with Spanish subtitles.
PROGRAMMING:
Monday, 27 July
Half Moon
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi (Iran/Austria/France/Iraq, 2006, 114 minutes).
Synopsis
After 35 years waiting for permission to give a concert in Iraq, old Mamo and his friend Kako embark on the adventure of collecting Mamo's ten musician children, scattered all over Iranian Kurdistan, aboard a rickety school bus. They will also have to convince Hesho, a singer living in a mountain hut with 1,334 other exiled female singers, to join them. As women in Iran are not allowed to sing in public in front of men, Hesho will have to hide in the bus... Mamo's perseverance will lead them all into the realm of adventure, emotion and magic.
Golden Shell for Best Film and FIPRESCI Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival 2006.
Special Jury Mention at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.
Audience Award at the 2007 Istanbul International Film Festival.
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