Five regional features including films and documentaries will be screened at Cinema Akil as part of it collaboration with the Arab Fund for Art and Culture.
Dubai-based independent cinema house Cinema Akil, in collaboration with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), is hosting the UAE’s first AFAC Film Week with a selection of contemporary feature narratives, documentaries, and shorts from five countries across the Arab region.
The AFAC Film Week programme includes Akasha, a romantic drama directed by Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka; What Comes Around, a documentary by Lebanese-Egyptian director Reem Saleh highlighting the strength in community support in one of Cairo’s poorest neighborhoods; Soudade Kaadan’s powerful Syrian drama The Day I Lost My Shadow; Tunisian feature documentary Railway Men, directed by Erige Sehiri; and the Libyan documentary Freedom Fields by Naziha Arebi, which follows the journey of a group of women who, in spite of the political climate and their differences, join together to form Libya’s first female football team. Two special screenings of Twenty Eight Nights and a Poem by Lebanese Director Akram Zaatari, a documentary on photography, memory, and culture will also be on the programme, in addition to five short films from Lebanon, which will close the film week under the section Lebanon in Focus.
