Tuesday cinema. Screening of 'Ghadi'.

The Fundación Tres Culturas dedicates the month of July to comedies from the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

The different films, in which a sense of humour is the predominant note, will show us their directors' abilities to deal with issues of great transcendence with an ironic and disconcerting look that will make us reflect on the different strategies used to make us smile.

We begin the cycle with the latest clandestine work by the Iranian Jafar Pahani, Tehran Taxi, a clear exponent of resistance cinema. This director was condemned by the Persian authorities not to work as a filmmaker for twenty years, but he used his ingenuity and talent to make this third clandestine film, circumventing his government's ban. One example of this ingenuity was the sending of the film 'This is not a film'.hidden in a cake, on a flash drive to the Cannes Film Festival.

We will continue to Ghadia gentle satire that comes to us from Lebanon in which we will see a parade of lovable and bizarre characters.

We have also included an award-winning short film from Palestine, Hail Maryby young directors Basil Khalil and Daniel Yáñez Khalil. On the same day, we continue with the Turkish film The Internationalby Sırrı Süreyya Önder, which tells the story of a very peculiar music band that causes a major altercation. This film is being screened thanks to the collaboration of Turkish House. The cycle will close with the film, My land by the Algerian directorMohamed HamidiThrough a journey of discovery to the land of his ancestors, a confused young man searches for his identity.

Tuesday 12 July, 20:30.

Ghadi

Amin Dora, Lebanon, 2013, 100 min.

Synopsis

Leba is a music teacher who lives in a small neighbourhood in a coastal town in Lebanon. He works as a music teacher and marries his childhood sweetheart, Lara. To the surprise of her family, neighbours and friends, after having two children in a very short time, Lara is pregnant with a third child, whom they name Ghadi, but doctors warn her that the child will have special needs. Will Leba and Lara be able to have the baby? Will Ghadi be a source of pride or a burden to the family? After giving birth, strange phenomena await and affect the citizens of this small neighbourhood and their beliefs.