The 15th Franco Arab Film Festival kicks off tonight

The 15th Franco Arab Film Festival will be held in Amman between the 1st and the 9th of July 2009, all shows will take place at Al Hussein Cultural Center, Ras Al-Ain, except for Friday 3rd of July it will be at the Royal Film Commission in Jabal Amman – 1st Circle.

Wednesday 1st of July:
5pm: Salt of this Sea by Annemarie Jacir – Palestine | 2008 | Drama | 1h44| Arabic dialogue with English subtitles
8:30pm: I Want to see by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige – Lebanon | 2008 | Docu – drama | 1h15 | Arabic, French dialogue with English subtitles.

Thursday 2nd of July:
6pm: Rome rather than you by Tariq Teguia – Algeria | 2008 | Drama | 1h51 | Arabic dialogue with English subtitles
8:30pm: Melodrama Habibi by Hany Tamba – Lebanon | 2008 | Comedy | 1h34 | Arabic, French dialogue with English subtitles

Friday 3rd of July:
8pm: Cairo…as Seen By Chahin by Yousef Chahin – France – Egypt | 1991 | 22 minutes | Fiction – Documentary| Arabic and French with English subtitles.
The Land by Yousef Chahin – Egypt |1969|2h 10 | Fiction | Arabic with French subtitles.

Saturday 4th of July:
4:30pm: Princess of the Sun by Philippe Leclerc – France | 2007 | Animation | 1h17. French Version
6:30pm: Princess of the Sun by Philippe Leclerc – France | 2007 | Animation | 1h17. Arabic Version
8:30pm: Hasiba by Raymond Boutros – Syria | 2008 | Drama | 2h15 | Arabic dialogue with English subtitles.

Sunday 5th of July:
6pm: Laila’s Birthday by Rashid Masharawi – Palestine | 2008 | Drama | 1h11| Arabic dialogue with English subtitles.
8:30pm: Number One by Zakia Tahiri – Morocco | 2008 | Comedy | 1h26 | Arabic and French dialogue with English subtitles.

Monday 6th of July:
6pm: Adhen by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche – France / Algeria | 2008 | Drama | 1h33 | Arabic and French dialogue with English subtitles.
8:30pm: In the Heliopolis Flat by Mohamed Khan – Egypt | 2007 | Drama | 1h58 | Arabic Dialogue with English subtitles.

Tuesday 7th of July:
5pm: Screening of films competing in the “Jordanian Short Film Competition” organized in the framework of the festival – awards will be presented during the closing ceremony.
8:30pm: Dawn of the World by Abbas Fadhel – Iraq / France | 2008 | Drama | 1h37 | Arabic dialogue with English subtitles.

Wednesday 8th of July:
6pm: The One Man Village by Simon El Habre – Lebanon | 2008 | Documentary | 1h26 | Arabic dialogue with English subtitles.
8:30pm: Khamsa – France | 2008 | Drama A 1h50 | French dialogue with English subtitles

Thursday 9th of July:
5pm: Days of Boredom – Syria | 2008 | Drama | 1h40 | Arabic dialogue with English subtitles
8pm: Mascarades = Algeria / France | 2008 | Comedy | 1h32 | Arabic dialogue with English subtitles

Bon Jovi sings Stand By Me in solidarity with people of Iran!

Although I don’t like Iran as I believe it’s as bad as Israel, but I find it unjustified for Arabs to get overexcited about the mayhem that has been striking the country since the elections, I mean what’s in it for us? There is an old Arabic quote that says: Leave what is Caesar’s to Caesar, I think it’s something inline with: To Caesar what is Caesar’s!

Israeli Terrorism 2.0: Soldiers humiliate Palestinians, upload it to YouTube

I wonder, when will the world open up to the reality and realize the truth of the Israel, being the only source of terrorism in the world.

Check out this map of Social Network Dominance

Here is an interesting demonstration of Social Networks and their dominance around the world, according to this map Facebook’s popularity spreads in USA, Canada, parts of South America, most of Europe and the Arab world, Australia, and few countries in Asia and Africa.

China seems to have a social network of its own; QQ, The Russians as well are hooked to a social network of their own; V Kontacte, while Japan, India and Brazil gets social on Orkut. Some countries in the Arab world use Maktoob.com, mainly in Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Oman.

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Check out this amazing documentary about our planet: Home

I was reading on Kippreport about the new documentary Home, which gives a new perspective about our planet and how bad things got with all irresponsible acts by humans. The film, which was created by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Luc Besson, took three years to complete, and was shot over 217 days in 54 countries, resulting in 488 hours of footage.

The film was released on June 5th, Environment Day, and will be available on YouTube for free until June 14th, according to YouTube Blog; this is the first time a global audience can watch a movie online, in movie theaters, on TV stations, and on outdoor screens around the world at the exact same time.

Well, not entirely true, Home is not available in all countries, which is a shame, I mean aren’t we all live on that planet they are discussing in the film? I remembered a joke by David Letterman of the Late Show about movies that are released in selected cities; he would always say: Who selects these cities? You should pray to god that your city has been selected!

That Dirty Planet we call Earth!

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