CineMAS Film Festival at Manarat Al Saadiyat 2022 Edition

Sunday, June 5 - 6.00-8.30pm - CineMAS 2022 Pre-Event
UAE STORIES
A SMALL DREAM (Sarra’a Al Shehhi, 2021, 15 min)
OSHA, THE FALCONER (Rasha Amer, 2021, Documentary, 16 min)
MUM (Mariam Alawadhi, 2019, Documentary, 10 min)
WHY IS MY GRANDFATHER’S BED IN THE LIVING ROOM? (Sarah Alhashimi, 2021, 7 min) 
MARASIM (Priscilla Elias, 2020, 9 min)
AMBER (Faisal Hashmi, 2020, 10 min)
THE MONSTER (Abdulrahman AlMadani, 2021, 25 min)

Monday, June 5 - Opening Night - Family Matters
FEATHERS (Omar El Zohairy, 2021, 112 min) - Preceded by a talk with the director + Post screening Q&A

EL PLANETA (Amalia Ulman, 2021, 82 min)

Tuesday, June 7 - Teens and Screens, Secrets and Lies
SOUAD (Ayten Amin, 2021, 96 min)

YUNI (Kamila Andini, 2021, 95 min)

Wednesday, 8 June - Passage of Time
SOMEWHERE IN TIME (Nawaf Al Janahi, 2021, 15 min) + LE TEMPS PERDU (Maria Alvarez, 2020, 102 min)

LAS CINEPHILAS (Maria Alvarez, 2017, 104 min)

Thursday, 9 June - Earth, Moon, Mars
MARS, OMAN (Vanessa Del Campo, 2019, 20 min) + RED HEAVEN (Lauren DeFilippo, Katherine Gorringe, 2020, 84 min)

SPACE WOMAN (Hadi Moussally, 2021, 20 min) + TO THE MOON (Tadhg O'Sullivan, 2020, 76 min)

Friday, June 10 - State of Mind and Place
VIRTUAL VOICE (Suzannah Mirghani, 2021, 7 min) + KATJA DREAMS OF WAKING UP, Truls Krane Meby, 2022, 72 min)

VENICE ELSEWHERE (Elia Romanelli, 2020, 65 min)

BUNKER (Jenny Perlin, 2021,92 min) - Followed by a post screening discussion with the director

Saturday, June 11 - Art, Music and Counterculture
NEGOTIATING LIBERATION: DON’T BE A DREAM, PLEASE BE REAL (Amirah Tajdin, 2021, UAE, 6 min) 
TERRAIN AHEAD (Majd Alloush, Anna Kipervaser, 2021, UAE, 20 min)
THERE IS AN EDIBLE GOLD (Moza Almatrooshi, 2021, UAE, 28 min)
Followed by a post screening discussion with the artists and Jenny Perlin.

AN EVENING WITH LAILA (Haya Alghanim, 2021, 10 min) + BEFORE THE DYING OF THE LIGHT (Ali Essafi, 2020, 70 min)

ITALO DISCO. THE SPARKLING SOUND OF THE 80s (Alessandro Melazzini, 2021, 62 min)

LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH (Cem Kay, 2022,96 min)

Sunday, June 12 - Part 1 - Homage to Classic Arab Cinema
BEIRUT, THE ENCOUNTER (Borhane Alaouié, 1982, 97 min)

ONCE UPON A TIME, BEIRUT (Jocelyn Saab, 1994, 101 min)

Sunday, June 12 - Part 2 - Family Archives
THE CATHEDRAL (Ricky D’Ambrose, 2021, 88 min)

DON’T GET TOO COMFORTABLE (Shaima Al-Tamimi, 2021, 9 min) + RADIOGRAPH OF A FAMILY (Firouzeh Khosrovani, 2020, 81 min)

Dates:
Pre-opening event: June 5, 2022
Festival: June 6-12, 2022

Venue:
Auditorium, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi

More information on Manarat Al Saadiyat website.
More information on The Culturist.

Press:
The National