The British Council in partnership with Front Row Entertainment and Reel Cinemas launches the UK Film Season, which will showcase eight weeks of the best British films in Dubai.
From 20 January to 15 March 2011, Dubai film fans will have the opportunity to see a wide variety of UK movies at ‘Picture House’ located in Dubai Mall-Reel Cinemas. In addition, with the support of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority and the Dubai International Film Festival there will be one Emirati short film screened before the main movie every week.
** Tickets are available at Reel Cinema’s, Dubai Mall Contact 04 4491988
Nowhere Boy is a Chronicle of John Lennon’s childhood starring Kristen Scott Thomas.
Arabic short: SOLO, Director/Producer: Ali Al-Jabri. A musician was unable to achieve his pursuit of music and people now hear the censored music of his instrument.
As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy, spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow up, they find that they have to come to terms with the haunting reality that awaits them.
Arabic short: AMAL’S CLOUD, Director: Rawia Abdullah, Producer: Huda Kano. Amal waits in the middle of the yard shifting between patience and hope; waiting for the jinx to melt and disappear.
- Brassed Off (03-08 February)
In existence for a hundred years, Grimley Colliery Brass band is as old as the mine. But the miners are now deciding whether to fight to keep the pit open, and the future for town and band looks bleak. Although the arrival of flugelhorn player Gloria injects some life into the players, and bandleader Danny continues to exhort them to continue in the national competition, frictions and pressures are all too evident. And who's side is Gloria actually on?
Arabic short: SHEIK AL JABAL / MOUNTAIN SHEIKH, Director: Naser El Yaqoobi, Producer: Houssain Kayani. The film depicts the life of an old Emirati man and his indominitable spirit of determination.
- Streetdance (10-15 February)
In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.
Arabic short: HEAT THE BEAT 2, Director: Shaikha Awad Al Ayali, Producer: Nayla Al Khaja and Sebastian Funke. Two brothers founded the first hip hop crew in the UAE. The film charts their journey towards becoming rappers and examines their motivations.
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to one of their greatest successes.
Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, abides living legend Jesco White, the dancing outlaw. To keep him out of trouble, his father teaches him the art of mountain dancing – tap dancing to wild country banjo music.
Arabic short: NIGHT, Director: Abdullah Al-Ramsi, Producer: Mohammad Al Hammadi. The short narrates the story of a man married to a difficult wife and living through hard circumstances. One night, an opportunity enlightens his future.
Eric a football fanatic postman whose life is descending in to crisis receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Eric Cantona.
Arabic short: NOURA’ APPLE, Director/Producer Manal Bin Amro. Childhood friends Noura and Hamdan have grown up. As time passed, their paths too diverged from what was once a period defined by innocence.
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant where female workers walked out in protest against discrimination.
Arabic short: ONCE, Director/Producer: Nayla Al Khaja. This film takes place on the day when Hamda is to meet her beau, Saeed, for the first time. Scared of getting caught and full of excitement at seeing him, we watch Hamda's transformation from girl to beautiful young woman.
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