One pair is to Where Do We Go Now? tomorrow 20:30, the second for AnDa Union: From the Steppes to the City on Friday at 20.30, both at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff.
Where Do We Go Now?
Lebanon/France/Italy/Egypt, 2011, 1 hour 40 minutes, subtitles. Director: Nadine Labaki
Winner of Audience Awards at Oslo, San Sebastian & Toronto International Film Festivals Watch the trailer
Genuinely funny comedy about the religious divisions in the middle East, even rarer one with the zest and joyful panache that Nadine (Caramel) Labaki shows here. This hugely entertaining parable is set in a mythical village cut off from the rest of the world where Christians and Muslims live happily side-by-side. When this harmony is threatened by a variety of outside influences the women of the village band together to keep their hot-headed men from fighting. With some lovely comic characters and hilarious situations this warm and funny film, though undoubtedly idealistic, nevertheless reveals some home truths.
AnDa Union: From the Steppes to the City
UK, 2011, 1 hour 37mins, subtitles. Dir: Tim Betts, Sophie Lascelles, Marc Tiley.
A fascinating music doc that cuts between AnDa Union’s extraordinary live performances, the band members lives in Hohhat, the concrete city, and their family homes out in the grasslands of Mongolia.
+ Post-screening Q+A with the director.
This was meant to be a competition on my Culture Show on Xpress Radio, but due to technical issues has switched to a Twitter competition instead. To enter the draw for a pair of tickets, tweet me @katiebrown161 what film makes you go 'WOW' and why - with #wowfilm2012. The competition is open until midnight tonight (Wed 21 March), when two winners (one pair each) will be chosen at random and notified. I'll compile the responses here too so everyone should get some quality film suggestions.
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