Programme 6
Wudu (2017)
Director: Ahmed Hasan Ahmed
United Arab Emirates
Narrative | 22 min
Arabic with English subtitles
Baheet is a cook celebrating delicious flavours by day and an oud musician by night. Bahia is an undertaker working with perfumes, scents and camphor who lives with death every day. Two people with strikingly different jobs reside under one roof, but their intellectual differences and lifestyles come between them.
Birth (2017)
Director: Abdulla Hasan
United Arab Emirates
Narrative | 82 min
Arabic with English subtitles
On the same day, death and birth bring a family together in their mountain village. As they commemorate the burial day of martyrs and celebrate a birth, a mother worries about her camel, a father is involved in a trip with a silent man, and their son is infatuated by football star Ronaldo.
My Father’s House (2018)
Director: Noora Al Musallam
Kuwait
Narrative | 14 min
Arabic with English subtitles
Musaed and his father struggle about whether to demolish his father’s house in Kuwait, with Musaed wondering if building a restaurant complex instead of keeping the house would be an opportunity to start a new life. His father’s stubbornness and attachment to his abandoned house grow, triggering an emotional discourse throughout the film.
Female scream (2014)
Director: Nasser Altamimi
United Arab Emirates
Narrative ǀ 16 min
Arabic with English subtitles
One minute and 34 seconds of this film is a female scream. The narrative revolves around a girl who is held hostage to a traditional social ideology that denies her humanity and makes her captive to doubts and fear of other people’s comments. Her family fails to accept that she has been sexually assaulted.
Madness of Fame (2018)
Director: Aly Kassem
United Arab Emirates
Narrative ǀ 7 min
Arabic with English subtitles
Ghadeer and Bassem are social media stars who rely on advertising to provide for their lavish expenses. Ghadeer goes to great lengths to keep up appearances, even if that means breaking her husband’s legs.