The British Film Week, organised by Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation and the British Council, will screen a selected collection of the latest contemporary British films that touch on relationships and human conditions. The Film week will present a selection of three feature movies and a documentary.
The screenings will be followed by an open discussion with the critic Iyan Haydn Smith
A specialised critique workshop will be held by the critic Ian Hyden Smith during the Film week at Abdel Hamid Foundation on 25 and 26 March 2014.
Sunday 23 March 2014 – 7.00 PM
The Unfinished Song /Song for Marion
Arthur a shy, grumpy pensioner, can't seem to find a reason to smile. He cannot understand why his wife, Marion, must sing with the local seniors' choir, even after being stricken with a terminal illness. As her condition worsens, Arthur reluctantly joins the choir, taking her place in the lineup.
Won best film in Nashville film festival 2013
Duration: 93 min
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Andrew Williams
Starring: Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave
English with Arabic Subtitles
Production year: 2012
Monday 24th March 2014 – 7.00 PM
Le Weekend
A married couple revisit Paris to revitalize their marriage, and run into an old friend, who acts as a catalyst for things to come. Meg feels she deserves a better life, but at crucial moments we see how insecure and bereft Meg would be without her husband Nick. Le Weekend is a delicious ‘portrait of a marriage’ with all the sensitive imperfections of a life of partnership.
Won best British independent film 2013
Duration: 93 min
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Lindsay Duncan
English with Arabic Subtitles
Production year: 2013
Tuesday 25 March 2014 – 7.00 PM
The Double
The film is based on a classic novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Eisenberg will play an insignificant clerk who encounters what he believes to be his exact double working in his office. He's eventually driven mad by his belief that the doppelganger is trying to usurp his place in life.
Duration: 93 min
Director: Richard Ayoade
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Chris O’Dowd, Mia Wasikowska
English with Arabic Subtitles
Production year: 2013
Wednesday 26 March 2014 – 7.00 PM
Life in a Day
On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their lives to YouTube to take part in Life in a Day, a historic cinematic experiment to create a documentary film about a single day on earth.
Duration: 95 min
Directors: Kevin Makdonald, Hiroaki Aikawa, And 21 others
Genre: Documentary
English with Arabic Subtitles
Production year: 2011