The Mohammed Bin Rashid Library, in collaboration with Cineolio, organises a new international cinematic evening on September 20. The event comes in line with the Library\u2019s efforts to promote cultural and intellectual communication by offering a wide range of films, highlighting various visions and experiences from around the world.<\/p>\n
The evening will showcase five unique short films subtitled in both Arabic and English. The first film \u201812 Drawings a Day\u2019 is directed by Denis Chapon in Denmark 2011. All created on the back side of used A4 papers, the experimental animation will present the director’s three-year journey in five minutes.<\/p>\n
Another film featured is \u2018Liter of Gas,\u2019 a 17-minute short film directed by Ibrahim Ramy from Egypt in 2022. Amidst a nation-wide rise in oil prices, an unemployed man goes on a journey searching for gasoline for his car, only to find himself instead exploring the socio-economic injustices that put him in this situation in the first place.<\/p>\n
This will be followed by \u2018Long Trip,\u2019 directed by Ali Kadhum from Iraq and Belgium in 2021. The 13-minute film explores the life of \u2018Dries\u2019, after the death of his father, as he must make a fundamental decision to either cremate the body or return it to be buried in his birth country as tradition subscribes.<\/p>\n
In her 10-minute documentary produced in 2022, \u2018Mid-Way,\u2019 Rola Shamas the Lebanese film maker explores the arrival of trains into a remote village. The documentary asks an important question, in the midst of this rush to nowhere, are we listening to birds? To rivers? To ourselves?<\/p>\n
At the conclusion of the evening, Fluorescent Hill team from Canada will take the audience on a six-minute journey with “Migration,” a 2014 vintage nature film exploring the migratory pattern of a herd of wild creatures in a creative cinematic frame.<\/p>\n