FREE EVENTS
FREE OUTDOOR FAMILY NIGHT - Jammin in the Middle E
Sunday 27th November – 7.30pm – @ Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Screening: Jammin in the Middle E.
Guest Performers: MC Nomisey
Bring your picnic, blanket and watch a moonlight screening on the ampitheatre lawn of the new Campbelltown Arts Centre.
*In case of bad weather event will go ahead indoors
FREE Egyptian Classic session at Bankstown Hoyts FOR SENIORS
Friday 2nd of December, 11:00 am, Bankstown Hoyts.
- Afrita Hanem starring: Farid Al Atrash and Samia Gamal.
- Seniors will be admitted for FREE
FILM, FUN and FORUM
Tuesday 29 November 2005 7pm-10pm @ Parramatta Riverside Theatres
For one night only at Parramatta Riverside Theatres – see the film and have fun in discussion with Alissar Gazal, Hashim Hussein, Fatima Mawas and a special guest (if he gets through the border on time!). [MC Alissar Chidiac]
- What: Al Hodoud (Borders) FILM, FUN AND FORUM
Where: Parramatta Riverside Theatres, Cnr Church St and Market St
When: 7pm-10pm, Tuesday 29 November 2005- Cost: Free event
Al Hodoud (Borders)
This is a not-to-be missed event of the Sydney Arab Film Festival – designed to bring everyone together for a serious laugh in these absurd times! Bring your family and friends, share vintage Arab comedy and talk across the aisles after the film!
Al Hodoud (Borders) is a much-loved comedy classic and a timeless political satire, made almost 20 years ago. The Sydney Arab Film Festival gives you the opportunity to re/discover how this great work speaks to us today. From the moment we meet Abdel Wadud on the road with his painted-up yellow car, we are on an ironic ride through scenarios and dialogues that resonate with realities of 2005, whether in the Arab World or in Australia.
Abdel Wadud is the creation of the famous Syrian actor Dorade Lahham, whose popularity grew since the earliest days of Syrian television. After 1967, Lahham moved from traditional comedies to political satire – through countless works of cinema, theatre and television. Authorities often wanted to arrest him because of his criticism, and his work became the only outlet for marginal political expression and relief in the Middle East through the 1970s and 1980s. His humble fictional characters are considered to be the most popular and enduring throughout the Arab World – his character Ghawar being a lovable household name throughout the 1980s.
Al Hodoud (Borders) is a story of an Arab traveller who loses his passport between two Arab countries, and is forced to live on the borderline, where neither country agrees to let him in. Made in 1987, the film was a sharp criticism of regimes that preach unity, yet are far from it – where the Arab citizen loses their own country, as well as their identity. When the film was released, movie-goers coined Lahham as “the Arabic Charlie Chaplin”.
Al Hodoud (Borders)
1987, Syria, 100 mins
Featuring Dorade Lahham as Abdel Wadud, and Raghda as Sodfeh.
Written by Mohammad Al Maghout.