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The sixth annual Dublin Arabic Film Festival (DAFF), curated by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jim Sheridan and Festival Director Zahara Moufid, will open on Friday, October 4th at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin’s Temple Bar. The festival, which runs until Sunday, October 6th, has been developed in partnership with the IFI and is again presented by Dubai Duty Free.
This year, DAFF is especially proud to announce that actor Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones, Hunger, The Wind That Shakes the Barley) will be the event’s inaugural Festival Patron.
This year’s festival will include five films at the IFI including the curtain-raiser The Reports on Sarah and Saleem, followed by Stephanie Brockhaus and Andreas Wolff’s documentary about Saudi poet Hissa Hilal, The Poetess, and Soudade Kaadan’s Syrian drama The Day I Lost My Shadow. The final two festival films, The Tower from director Mats Grorud and Nour Eddine Lakhmari’s Burnout, will hit the big screen on Sunday 6th; Burnout will be followed by a Q&A with the film’s director Nour Eddine Lakhmari and producer Khadija Alami. Click here for tickets and additional information.
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THE REPORTS ON SARAH AND SALEEM
Friday, October 4th 20.20
A Palestinian deliveryman and an Israeli café owner are engaged in a clandestine affair as both seek to escape their stifling marriages. When their tryst is exposed, an international crisis looms.
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THE BREADWINNER
Saturday, October 5th 14.00 (Chester Beatty Library)
Cartoon Saloon's Oscar-nominated animation set in Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban. When her father is captured, a determined young girl disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
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THE POETESS
Saturday, October 5th 15.30
Saudi poetess Hissa Hilal made headlines around the world as the first woman to ever make it to the final of the Arab world’s biggest poetry competition. This documentary tells her remarkable story.
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THE DAY I LOST MY SHADOW
Saturday, October 5th 17.30
In Syria in 2012 a mother ventures into a war zone to find a gas cylinder so she can prepare a meal for her son. She discovers that in the besieged area the people there have lost their shadows.
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THE TOWER
Sunday, October 6th 13.20
A young girl living in a Palestinian refugee camp learns about her family's history through stories told by three previous generations of refugees. An eye-opening animation from director Mats Grorud.
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BURNOUT + DIRECTOR Q&A
Sunday, October 6th 15.20
The interconnected destinies of three disparate characters in the Moroccan metropolis of Casablanca are explored in Nour Eddine Lakhmari’s gripping drama, followed by a Q&A with the director and producer.
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