26 - 27 November: Campbelltown Arts Centre 2

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26 - 27 November: Campbelltown Arts Centre 2
26 - 27 November: Campbelltown Arts Centre
2 - 4 December: Hoyts Bankstown
29 November: Film & Forum - Riverside Theatres, Parramatta
www.sydneyarabfilmfestival.com
www.sydneyarabfilmfestival.com
PREFACE
Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) is proud to host
the 2nd Sydney Arab Film Festival.
In the current political climate, under which negative
stereotypes of Arabs once again circulate in abundance,
this cultural event provides a space for diverse audiences to
constructively engage with films focusing on the Arab world
and diaspora. In New South Wales, Arabic is the second
most spoken language after English, and yet Arabic selfexpression needs a much higher profile within Australian
film and television culture.
Supporting and promoting dialogue in the arena of
cultural production is central to ICE’s work with grassroots communities. The Festival fills an enormous gap
in Sydney’s cultural landscape. In recent years, ICE has
worked with artists, emerging communities and Arabic
young people to develop new work in digital arts and
multimedia. We are committed to supporting the Festival in
becoming a sustainable and independent entity.
The mountains of Lebanon, the shores of Algiers, the
timeless gaze of unrequited love, the melancholic rip of
having two homelands, dancers in Palestine, the lyrical
sound of Oud, the secret joy of forbidden love, the bridges
of Alexandria, a mother’s anguish, a father’s pride, a village
lost to borders. All at the 2nd Sydney Arab Film Festival as we
explore the intricate world of Arab Cinema over 2 jam-packed
weekends at Campbelltown Arts Centre, Riverside Theatres,
Parramatta, Hoyts Bankstown from Saturday 26 November Sunday 4 December. We had a great time tenderly choosing the
film programme... please JOIN US! Ahlan wa sahlan!
Festival Co-ordinators - Fadia Abboud & Anna Cominos
About Us
The aim of the Sydney Arab Film Festival is to showcase
stories emerging from diverse Arabic speaking cultures to all
Australian audiences that reflect the complexity and diversity
of Arab experiences. Furthermore we aim to address the
(mis)representations of Arab culture through film by providing
critical spaces and give exposure to alternative representations
of Arab culture, Arab commentary and self-representation.
Lena Nahlous
Director, ICE & SWITCH
History
The Sydney Arab Film Festival was first held in April 2001
with a 3 day Program at the Roxy Cinema in Parramatta.
It was a joint project of Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre,
Information and Cultural Exchange, Fairfield Community
Resource Centre and the Powerhouse Museum. It was an
associated event of East of Somewhere - a contemporary
Arab Australian cultural project initiated by Casula
Powerhouse Arts Centre.
Cover photos
by Soraya Asmar
Organising Committee members:
Abbas Makrab, Alice Ansara, Anna Cominos, Alissar Chidiac,
Alissar Gazal, Daniela Flaxl, Elie Assi, Fadia Abboud, Fatima
Mawas, Joanne Saad, Maissa Alameddine, Mireille Astore,
Omar Qadora, Razy Eid, Sohail Dahdal & Soraya Asmar.
www.sydneyarabfilmfestival.com
FESTIVAL GREETING
AL HODOUD (BORDERS)
JAMMIN’UNDER THE STARS
1987 | Syria | 100 mins
Featuring Dorade Lahham as Abdel Wadud
and Raghda as Sodfeh
Written by Mohammad Al Maghout
XROADS - Your Gone • Le Pacour • Judging Amir
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.
Movie goers coined Lahham as “the Arabic Charlie Chaplin”.
www.duraidlahham.com/filmography.htm
Riverside Theatres, Parramatta
Cnr Church St and Market St, Parramatta
Tuesday 29 November • 7pm - 10pm
Free event
Local Short Films
JAMMIN’ IN THE MIDDLE E
Australia | 2005 | 50 mins | Dir: Kim Mordaunt
Grab your friends and/or family, bring your picnic basket
& blanket, stake out your spot and wait for the sun to set.
When the stars start to twinkle, sit back and enjoy a night of
homebaked, hilarious short films, Rap crews and other live
performances made/created/brought to you by the young
and gifted people in your neighbourhood... And it’s all free!
Fresh from a red-carpet premiere, enjoy the short film
XROADS - Your Gone and local boys made good, 9 Lives
bringing their truly original physical performance style that
blends combat with music in the hi-NRG Le Pacour and the
final short film is Judging Amir.
Jammin’ in the Middle E is an Arab Australian comedy about
families, fast cars, gangster rap and... rosewater. A story
of siblings Naima and Ishak growing up Arab in Western
Sydney.
Campbelltown Arts Centre
Sunday 27 November • 7.30pm
Free event
Free Events
Free Events
Film, Fun & Forum
A MAN IN THE HOUSE
Farid Al Atrache is Asfour, a poor singer/actor who stumbles
upon a magic lamp and its wish-granting genie, Samia
Gamal. Using his new-found power to woo his gold-digging
girlfriend away from her rich suitor, but the Genie has a few
wishes of her own. Beautiful song and dance from Egypt’s
great stars.
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Sunday 27 November • 1pm
Hoyts Bankstown • Friday 2 December • 11am
Based on the famous novel by Ihsan Abdel Qoddous, this
1961 classic is set prior to the 1952 revolution and stars the
legendary Omar Sharif who plays Ibrahim, a member of the
underground resistance who seeks refuge from the so-called
“political police”.
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Saturday 26 November • 3pm
THE NIGHTINGALE’S
PRAYER
MA
Egypt | 1959 | 126 Mins | Dir: Henri Barakat
Based on the novel by the great Egyptian novelist, Taha
Hussein, and starring the first lady of the Arab silver
screen, Faten Hamama. This compelling tale of love and
betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows
the story of Amna (Hamama) as she plots her revenge on
the engineer (Ahmed Mazhar) who destroyed her family’s
honor.
Hoyts Bankstown • Sunday 4 December • 6.30pm
MA
Egypt | 1961 | 115 Mins | Dir: Henri Barakat
FATMA
MA
Egypt | 1947 | 126 Mins | Dir: Ahmed Badrakhan
The legendary diva Umm Kulthum stars in this classic film
about a poor nurse who falls in love with the son of one of her
wealthy patients. Abandoned by her husband while pregnant,
she must fight her husband’s wealthy and powerful family in
court.
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Sunday 27 November • 3pm
ADRIFT ON THE NILE
MA
Egypt | 1971 | 115 Mins | Dir: Hussein Kamal
A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends who gather each
night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making
and smoking hashish. Based on the novel by the Nobel
Laureate Naguib Mahfouz.
Hoyts Bankstown • Saturday 3 December • 3.30pm
Egyptian Classics
Egyptian Classics
AFRITA HANEM
MA
Egypt | 1950 | 111 Mins | Dir: Henri Barakat
MESHWAR MA
Campbelltown Arts Centre
Sunday 27 November • 5.30pm
Hoyts Bankstown
Saturday 3 Dec • 6.30pm
THE BEST
OF TIMES
MA
Egypt | 2004 | 114 Mins
Dir: Hala Khalil
A young woman finds herself
awkwardly living with her
step-father after her mother’s
tragic death and decides to
search for her real father. We
are given an insight into the lives
of three very different women in
contemporary Egyptian society.
Hoyts Bankstown
Friday 2 Dec • 8.45pm
With thanks to
Hadi is walking in the night;
reconsidering his commitment
to the girl he is supposed to
marry, when Reem dressed
as a boy in her attempt
to runaway from home
jumps and falls in his arms.
Immediately he realises that
he is holding a girl who will
take him in an improvised
journey, made of humor,
mystery and surprisingly of
undeclared love. A happy
venture enriched by innocent
deceit, unexpected encounters
and sweet emotions.
THE DOOR TO THE SUN MA
Palestine to Lebanon | 2004 | 278 Mins | Dir: Yousry Nasrallah
In the beginning was Palestine, just when the story of Younes’
life began. Younes sometimes went under the name of Abou
Salem, sometimes the Man and some other times Ibrahim’s
father.
This was also when the story of his wife Nahila began – she
became his bride at the age of 12, she was to breast-feed their
first baby during the exhausting walks as she fled with the
other villagers towards the North and left behind their burntdown house.
He would visit her in Bab El Chams, a cave in Galilee and tell
her about Saladin and Nasser and Nahil believed his tales.
This was also the story of Younes’ father, Cheikh Ibrahim, the
old blind man who knew where the sun stood just by the smell
of the trees lining the exile roads. This was also the story of
Doctor Khalil, forsaken by his own mother in the confusion of
the refugee camps. And this was the story of Chams, whom
Khalil loved and who was executed by her comrades-in-arms.
This was the story of the Palestinians, driven forcefully from the
camps in Galilee to the camps in Lebanon, enduring fifty years
of hardship, of hope and of love.
NOTE: Screening is 4.5 hours with 20 minute intermission
Hoyts Bankstown
Sunday 4 Dec • 10.30am
Feature Films
Feature Films
Lebanon | 2005 | 105 Mins
Dir: Samir Habshy
ALEXANDRIA - NEW YORK MA
MA
Palestine | 2004 | 90 Mins | Dir: Saverio Constanzo
Egypt & USA | 2004 | 128 Mins | Dir: Youssef Chahine
Inspired by real events, a Palestinian family of seven suddenly
confronted with a volatile situation in their home that in many
ways reflects the ongoing confilct between Palestine and Israel.
Egyptian film director Yehia encounters his first love Ginger as
he was being celebrated in New York. The world has changed
and 50 years on they meet again.
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Saturday 26 November • 8pm
Hoyts Bankstown • Sunday 4 December • 8.45pm
Hoyts Bankstown • Friday 2 December • 6.30pm
TERRA INCOGNITA
MA
BAB EL WEB
MA
Lebanon | 2002 | 120 Mins | Dir: Ghassan Salhab
France | 2005 | 99 Mins | Dir: Merzak Allouache
Beirut today: a city destroyed seven times over and each
time reconstructed; a city/construction site, a city that
is changing. One that reflects Soraya, Tarek, Nadim and
Haidar. We don’t dare look back, much less imagine a
future.
Bouzid spends his time in a cybercafe “chatting” with girls
from around the world and inviting them to his homeland.
But he didn’t expect a visit form a French webpal to his
working class suburb in Algiers.
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Saturday 26 November • 6pm
Hoyts Bankstown • Saturday 3 December • 8.45pm
Feature Films
Feature Films
PRIVATE
ELIE
FAYROUZ
MA
Lebanon | 2003 | 13 mins
Dir: Cynthia Choucair
Documentaries
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Sunday 27 November • 11am
Hoyts Bankstown • Saturday 3 December • 11am
THE SIREN MA
Egypt | 2005 | 23 mins
Dir: Zakaria Ibrahim
The siren explores a mysterious
legend associated with the
Simsimiyyia an ancient Egyptian
lute dating back to the times of
Pharaohs. This legend warns how the
Simsimiyyia will bewitch her players
through music.
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Saturday 26 November • 11am
Hoyts Bankstown • Saturday 3 December • 1pm
EMBRACE
MA
Australia | 2005 | 5 mins
Dir: Kate Gaul
A young Lebansese man explores
what growing up is like in
contemporary Sydney.
Campbelltown Arts Centre
Sunday 27 November • 11am
Hoyts Bankstown
Saturday 3 December • 11am
ABOUT BAGHDAD
MA
Iraq | 2004 | 90 mins
Dir: Sinan Antoon
Exiled writer and poet Sinan Antoon returns to his native
Baghdad with a team of independent filmakers, artists and
poets to document the effects that decades of oppression, war,
sanctions and occupation have had on his city resulting in a
fascinating mosaic of opinions, perspectives and memories.
Hoyts Bankstown • Sunday 4 December • 3.30pm
I REMEMBER
1948
MA
Australia | 2004 | 24 mins
Dir: Fadia Abboud
Personal memories of the
tumultuous days of Al Nakba, ‘the
catastrophe’, May 15th 1948, when
750,000 Palestinians were expelled
freom their homes. ‘If I live one
thousand years, you think I will
forget that?’
I Remember 1948 is a locally produced documentary, with
original music by the talented Oud player Joseph Tawadros.
Hoyts Bankstown • Friday 2 December • 3.30pm
Documentaries
Elie Darwish has a voice similar
to that of famous Lebanese singer
Fairuz. The film traces the story of
this man with a woman’s voice and
his life.
BEING OSAMA
IMPROVSATION
Palestine | 2005 | 60 mins | MA
Dir: Raed Andoni
Canada | 2004 | 45 mins | MA
Dir: Mahmoud Kaabour
and Tim Schwab
Raed Andoni’s Improvisation
explores the conflict of identity
faced by different generations of
Palestinians, as told through the
story of a family of musicians who
are divided in their political views,
but united by their passion for Oud
and Arab classical music.
An intimate look at six men with
highly diverse backgrounds,
interests and personalities, united
by their first names and the
experience of living as an Arab in
the post 9/11 world.
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Saturday 26 November • 11am
Hoyts Bankstown • Sunday 4 December • 3.30pm
SERHELDAN
LIKE TWENTY
IMPOSSIBLES
Lebanon | 2004 | 18 mins | MA
Dir: Serheldan Ahmad and
Christine Chamas
Palestine | 2003 | 17 mins | MA
Dir: Annemarie Jacir
Serheldan is 13, Kurdish, living
in Beirut. She tries to understand
her identity and shows us her
neighbourhood through several
interviews shot with her friend
Christine.
Campbelltown Arts Centre Sunday 27 November • 11am
Hoyts Bankstown Saturday 3 December • 11am
Hoyts Bankstown
Friday 2 December • 3.30pm
REVEILATIONS:
THE CHILDREN
OF IBDAA
INSIGHT INTO THE HIJAB
Australia | 2005 | 23 mins | MA
Dir: Nazneen Reehman
This documentary covers
the idea of veiling by Muslim
women (better known as hijab
by the Muslims) and the many
questions instigated by it among
Muslims and non-Muslims.
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Saturday 26 November • 11am
A Palestinian film crew decides to
avert a closed checkpoint by taking
a remote side road. From here
onward the crew is taken apart by
the mundane brutality of military
occupation. This film questions
the politics of film making and the
opportunism of artists.
Palestine | 2002 | 29 mins | MA
Dir: S. Smith Patrick
To create something out of
nothing is about the lives
of several adolescents in a
Palestinian children’s dance
troupe from Dheisheh refugee
camp in the West Bank.
Hoyts Bankstown • Friday 2 December • 3.30pm
Documentaries
Documentaries
Hoyts Bankstown • Saturday 3 December • 1pm
COUSINS MA
WELL PLAYED MA
Hoyts Bankstown • Friday 2 November • 1.30pm
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Sunday 27 November • 11am
Hoyts Bankstown • Saturday 3 December • 11am
Hoyts Bankstown • Saturday 3 December • 8.45pm
FATIMA’S SECRET MA
Short Films
Algeria | 2003 | 30 mins | Dir: Karim Ben Salah
Film based on true events in Algiers, 1998: Fatima is 65 years old and
lives in a popular area ravaged by domestic violence and terrorism.
But behind the obvious indifference hides a terrible secret.
Hoyts Bankstown • Friday 2 November • 1.30pm
GLOBALISATION MA
Lebanon | 2002 | 2.40 mins | Dir: Abdel Rahim El-Aouji
A man, a TV... and the devil between them.
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Sunday 27 November • 11am
Hoyts Bankstown • Saturday 3 December • 11am
NOT FROM HERE MA
Australia | 2005 | 2 mins | Dir: Mireille Astore
Not From Here is a short film that challenges the historical photograph
as it morphs before our very eyes.
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Sunday 27 November • 11am
Hoyts Bankstown • Saturday 3 December • 11am
Lebanon | 2004 | 6:35 mins | Dir: Koussay Hamzeh
A 10-year-old boy watches his favourite daily TV program through the
window of his 16-year-old female neighbour. There is no time
for games.
JEAN-FARES MA
Algeria & France | 2001 | 8.00 mins | Dir: Lyes Salem
The day his son was born, Driss calls his parents in Algeria and his
parents-in-law in Versailles. They both asked the same questions:
“What will you name your son?”
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Sunday 27 November • 11am
Hoyts Bankstown • Saturday 3 December • 11am
LOST HORIZON MA
Morocco | 2002 | 12 mins | Dir: Laila Marrakchi
The film follows Abdel Salam’s final hours in Tangiers as he prepares to
leave his lover, Rhimou, and his country for a questionably better life on
the other side of the horizon.
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Sunday 27 November • 11am
Hoyts Bankstown • Saturday 3 December • 11am
SHADI IN THE BEAUTIFUL WELL MA
Egypt | 2003 | 10 mins | Dir: Kamla Abou Zikri
A boy, a girl, a love story, and an uncle that discovers them, what
happens next is only up to God.
Hoyts Bankstown • Friday 2 December • 1.30pm
Palestine | 2003 | 10 mins | Dir: Mahdi Fleifel
Shadi is an autistic boy living in the heart of the Palestinian refugee
camp One day, his neighbour’s son steals his white pet dove, an event
that constantly torments him.
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Saturday 26 November • 8pm
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Sunday 27 November • 11am
Hoyts Bankstown • Saturday 3 Sunday 4December • 11am
THE ELEVATOR MA
THE DISPLACED MA
A GLIMPSE TO THE SKY MA
Egypt | 2004 | 13 mins | Dir: Hadil Nazmy
A girl of late twenties is stuck inside an elevator when it breaks down, at
the same time she receives a wrong telephone call, what happens next is
totally unexpected.
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Sunday 27th of November • 11 am
Hoyts Bankstown • Saturday 3rd of December • 11 am
Australia | 2005 | 5 mins | Dir: Chadi Sankary
The film visualises the concept of displacement of the Palestinian
people and how Palestine lives in their memory and in their daily life in
their “exile”
Hoyts Bankstown • Saturday 3 December • 1pm
Short Films
Algeria | 2003 | 32 mins | Dir: Lyess Salem
Driss is to spend a month in Algiers to meet up with his family and visit a
country which has deeply changed ever since he left. He meets Nedjma,
a distant cousin, who is promised to Amran.
The 2nd Sydney Arab Film Festival is proud to present the
ALBA Short films Session. These short films were made by students
of the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts.
CAMPBELLTOWN ARTS CENTRE - Saturday 26 November
11am
FACE THE NAME
Revalation’s into the Veil + Being Osama + The Siren
BADKON SHI...T?
1pm
ALBA Short Film Session
3pm
Egyptian Classic - A Man in Our House
6pm
Terra Incognita
8pm
Shadi and the Beautiful Well + Private
GREYSCALE
Lebanon | 2003 | 6 mins | Dir: Amin Dora
Grey refuses the dullness of his city, he creates his own life in colors...
CAMPBELLTOWN ARTS CENTRE - Sunday 27 November
11am
Alba Short Films
IT’S NOT YOU...? - MESH ENTA...?
Lebanon | 2003 | 16.22 mins | Dir: Amin Dora
While getting ready to go to his parents, he stops a moment to see the
TV ad in which he is starred. He then takes the “usual” road to the town.
LE BALLON ROUGE
Lebanon | 2004 | 3.32 | Dir: Rana Salem
Loulou loses her red balloon.
THE BIG FALL
Lebanon | 2005 | 5 mins | Dir: Antoine Waked
Professional hitman, Mr. Fall has a big day.
1pm
SUBHIYEH OF ARAB SHORTS
Well Played + Globalisation + Jean Fares + The Elevator
+ Embrace + Shadi & the Beautiful Well + Not From here
+ Lost Horizon + Serheldan + Ellie Fayrouz
Egyptian Classic - Afrita Hanem
3pm
Egyptian Classic - Fatma
5.30pm
Meshwar
7.30pm
JAMMIN’ UNDER THE STARS + Xroads Video Clip - Your Gone
+ Judging Amir + Le Pecour + Jammin’ in the Middle E
RIVERSIDE THEATRES, PARRAMATTA- Tuesday 29 November
7pm
Hedude (Borders) film + fun + forum
HOYTS BANKSTOWN - Friday 2 December
11am
Bankstown Mayor Launch - Afrita Hanem
Lebanon | 1999 | 18 mins | Dir: Nadine Ghorra
Nadia, a young girl lives in the mountains and has never seen the sea.
The railways near her house make her dream. One day a fisherman
arrives to the village and makes her listen to the sea.
1.30pm
3.30pm
A GLIMPSE OF THE ARAB WORLD Fatima’s Secret
+ A Glimpse to the Sky + Cousins
I Remember 1948 + Like 20 Impossibles + The Children of Ibdaa
6.30pm
Alexandria - New York
ZIG AU PURGATOIRE
8.45pm
The Best of Times
THE MERMAID - AL HOURIYA
Lebanon | 2004 | 2.48 mins | Dir: Yara Nashawaty
Zig worn out, decides to free himself from the past
HOYTS BANKSTOWN - Saturday 3 December
11am
WAYN YO
Lebanon | 1998 | 13 mins | Dir: Andre Chammas
The story is about the “day to day” life on the square of a village, theatre
to all kinds of customs, traditions and characters. It is an ironic vision of
the reality of the village Zahle.
1pm
’83... THE SERIES - ’83... AL MOUSALSAL
Lebanon | 1999 | 21 mins | Dir: Ziad Nassif
The story of a family (the father, a sculptor, his wife and their son)
in a Lebanese village on the eve of its destruction. The woman gets
panicked. The man bound to his principles, refuses to leave the village
like the others...The conflict continues till the exodus...
All ALBA Student Shorts screen in the one session
Campbelltown Arts Centre • Saturday 26 November • 1pm
SUBHIYEH OF ARAB SHORTS
Well Played + Globalisation + Jean Fares + The Elevator
+ Embrace + Shadi & the Beautiful Well + Not From here
+ Lost Horizon + Serheldan + Ellie Fayrouz
The Siren + Improvisation + Displaced
3.30pm
Egyptian Classic - Adrift on the Nile
6.30pm
Meshwar
8.45pm
Well Played + Bab el Web
HOYTS BANKSTOWN - Sunday 4 December
10.30am
The Door to the Sun - with intermission
3.30pm
Being Osama - About Baghdad
6.30pm
Egyptian Classic - The Nightingale’s Prayer
8.45pm
Shadi and the Beautiful Well + Private
Calendar
Lebanon | 2005 | 17.30 mins | Dir: Badih Massaad
A bunch of friends go to the Bekaa valley to buy some cannabis.
The dealer asks them to take a metal box to some address in Beirut...
VENUES
TICKETS
HOYTS BANKSTOWN
$13 adults / $11 concessions
Hoyts Hotline 1900-9-HOYTS
Bankstown express code 275
Calls charged at 83c p/min, higher for mobile & payphones
3 film pass: This pass is made up of 3 separate tickets to
the selected films of your choice. Maximum one ticket per
screening. Selection must be made before purchasing.
Not valid opening night or special events. Can only be
purchased at box office.
Cnr The Mall & Jacob Streets
Bankstown Tel:(02) 9796 4888
Parking
Parking is available free of charge.
All screenings except
ALBA short films are
classified MA 15+
Campbelltown Arts Centre Sessions:
Public Transport
Close to Bankstown train station.
Tickets only available at the Campbelltown Arts Centre Box Office.
Opening hours: Daily 10am-4pm or as phone bookings on
(02) 4645 4100
Private and Government buses service the South Western
suburbs.
** 7.30pm session on Sunday 27 November, Jammin Under the
Stars is a free outdoor event.
CAMPBELLTOWN ARTS CENTRE
Parramatta Riverside Theatre Session:
Cnr Camden & Appin Roads
Campbelltown Tel: 02 4645 4100
Email: [email protected]
This session is free; no tickets necessary.
See also: Events - Education Forum (pg 3)
Car
Take the second Campbelltown (Narellan Road) exit off
the M5 motorway and turn left into Narellan Road. Follow
Narellan Road and look out for signs to the Arts Centre on
the left. Turn left at the fourth set of lights onto Moore-Oxley
Street and immediately left again into Art Gallery Road.
Box Office
Can be purchased from the Hoyts Bankstown box office during
cinema opening hours. All major credit cards & EFTPOS
accepted
Train
The nearest bus/rail/taxi interchange is Campbelltown
Railway Station. Campbelltown Station is serviced by the
South, East Hills and Inner West lines. For information
timetable, call 131 500 or check www.131500.com.au
Bus
Busways operates a number of services in and around
Campbelltown area. For information and timetables, call
4625 8922 or check www.busways.com.au
Hoyts Bankstown Sessions:
Online
Tickets available securely online 24 hours @ www.hoyts.com.au
Online bookings incur a booking fee of $1.00 per ticket
CONDITIONS
• All tickets purchased over the internet can only be collected from the Hoyts Bankstown box office
• To do so you must be the credit card holder or have a letter of authorisation signed by the credit
card holder.
• Dates and times are correct at the time of publication, but may need to be altered. We therefore
reserve the right to withdraw, change and replace programs without notice.
• Please note that no other Hoyts Cinemas discounts or promotional offers will apply to this
festival/ special event.
• All seating is unreserved.
• Festival tickets once acquired are non refundable.
• There will be an interval in all festival films
• We anticipate that door sales will be available for most festival sessions however this cannot be
guaranteed. Patrons are urged to purchase their tickets well in advance to avoid disappointment.
• All films have English subtitles unless otherwise indicated on the programme.
• Lost or stolen tickets will not be refunded or replaced
• All festival films start at the advertised starting times.
THANK YOU
SPONSORS
The 2nd Sydney Arab Film Festival is hosted by
Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) and driven by a
volunteer organising committee.
ICE aims to support the Sydney Arab Film Festival into an
independently managed annual event in the coming years.
Many thanks for the major support from NSW Film and
Television Office, Bankstown City Council, Hoyts Cinemas,
Campbelltown City Council, Campbelltown Arts Centre,
Parramatta City Council, Riverside Theatres, Parramatta
and Auburn Community Development Network.
Research for films was done with the help of many individuals and organisations.
Special thanks to:
Beirut DC – for locating titles from all over the Arab world
Zeina Zahreddine, Cynthia Shoucair & Hania Mroueh
..né.à Beyrouth, Festival du Film Libanais - Pierre Sarraf
Arab Film Distribution - Ryan Anne Davis
Pyramide Films - Paul Richer
Sabbah Media Corporation - Sadek Sabbah
9th Annual Arab Film Festival – Sonia El-Feki
CinemaEast Film Festival - Rasha Salti
Dubai Women’s College - Bernard Purcell
Jayce Salloum
Ziad Nawfal at CD TECH
Mec Film - Irit Neidhardt
Khalil Smayra ALBA - Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts
Alexander Weilsmann - Premiers Department
Fadle el Harris - Filmotion
Tony Ishak - World Media
Anthony Alam - Arabic Pages
Ahmad Salim - Al-Nahar newspaper
Hoyts - Justin Gross, Claire Linder, especially Fiona Pulford
Campbelltown Arts Centre Staff & Lisa Havilah
Micheline Khoury
Fransisco Fisher
Jason Lewis
Bankstown City Council - Christopher Hudson
Doug Anderson
Amy Wooding - Office of Film and Literature Classification
Nadya Stani & Ann Martin - Parramatta City Council
Robert Love & Anthony Hayes - Riverside Theatres, Parramatta
Auburn Community Development Network Staff
Akmal Saleh
Dr Ghassan Hage
Julian Debono
All the staff at Information & Cultural Exchange especially Daniela Flaxl
www.sydneyarabfilmfestival.com
SHOUKRAN AND THANKS:
Our beautiful catalogues, postcards and posters were
printed with the help of Hassan Moussa at RM Gregory.
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