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As part of the New Arab Films festival on the 20th July at 7pm we will screen the short Malal (Bored), followed by the feature Transit Cities at 7.30pm.
Tickets cost £8/£6 concs and include both screenings; email info@mosaicrooms.org or call 0207 370 9990 to purchase yours now.
Malal (Bored)
Director: Nayla Al Khaja// Category: Fiction/Short Feature// Duration: 15 min// Country: UAE
Malal revolves around a young UAE couple, who travel to South India for their honeymoon. The wife finds her new arranged marriage repulsive, emotionless and stagnant. Everything the husband says bores her, he spends his time sleeping and discussing the ins and outs of the pharmaceutical industry.
The film takes place on their last day of their honeymoon where the wife pleads for the husband to take her for a walk in the forest to discover the beauty of South India and he finally agrees. As they go on a hill to enter a wild thicket of trees the husband gets tired and asks her to continue on her own. The wife bumps into a native, she spends the last day of her honeymoon with a Indian stranger that turns her honeymoon into something unforgettable before returning back to her boring life.
Transit Cities
Director: Mohammad Hushki// Category: Documentary// Duration: 71min// Country: Jordan
Laila is a thirty-something year old woman who is running away from a life of disconnection and emptiness abroad, she simply wants her old world back in Amman, Jordan yet 14 years changed everything.
Unannounced and uninvited, Laila’s attempts to construct a new life turn out to be much harder than she thought. Her simple old town is now a complex entity.
Searching for a job, restoring family relationships and friendships, dealing with a city that is being torn apart by forces of religion from the right and globalization from the left… all that forces her to question her ability to survive in this place.
But if she does not belong here, and she doesn’t belong there, where will home be now? In seven days she needs to make a decision.