Bond’s loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. Whilst MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
You can watch the trailer Here
Who: ALC & ALIF and university students
When: Friday May 24 at 3 PM
Where: ALC Room Six
Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse.
You can watch the trailer Here
Who: ALC & ALIF and university students
When: Friday May 17 at 3 PM
Where: ALC Room Six
My Week with Marilyn
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Aurthur Miller (Dougray Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as My Week with Marilyn – this is the story of that week. When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life; an idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
Language: English
Who: ALIF students
When: Friday May 17 at 6 PM
Where: ALIF Riad
Sleepless
A masterpiece Directed by the great Salah Abu Seif, written by the controversial Ihsan Abdel Quoddous and stars seven of Egyptian Cinema’s greatest actors. A melodrama about a 1950s upper class society set in flamboyant cinematic lighting, color and decor. Salah Abu Seif carefully color codes his characters and their environment using a typically melodramatic score to punctuate points and to accompany the tones and textures of the story.
Language: Arabic with English subtitles.
Who: ALIF students
When: Saturday May 18 and Sunday May 19 at 6 PM
Where: ALIF Riad
An airline pilot saves almost all his passengers on his malfunctioning airliner which eventually crashed, but an investigation into the accident reveals something troubling.
You can watch the trailer Here
Who: ALC & ALIF and university students
When: Friday May 10 at 3 PM
Where: ALC Room Six
Immortals
An entertaining if not entirely studious classical mythology yarn, featuring RP-accented beefcake Henry Cavill, who will shortly be seen as Superman. In a semi-coherent concoction that looks and feels as if it’s been adapted from a comic book even though it hasn’t, Cavill plays Theseus, a resistance fighter against an all-out assault on humanity by evil ogre Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) who is hoping to release a legion of imprisoned Titans from Mount Tartarus to do battle with the Olympian gods. It really makes very little sense at all, as is the way of these things, but it hardly matters. Director Tarsem Singh Dhandwar slathers things with eyecatching visuals – luscious CGI effects, vertiginous camera angles, a treacly amber glow – and keeps every frame watchable.
Language: English
Who: ALIF students
When: Friday May 10 at 6 PM
Where: ALIF Riad
Le Grand Voyage
In this French-Moroccan road movie, a father and son travel by car from France to Saudi Arabia. For the father, it is his once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to Mecca. For the teenage son, completely westernized, with a non-Muslim girlfriend and school exams to take, it is the worst possible turn of events. They quarrel much of the way or press on in bitter silence, as the road takes them through Italy, the Balkans, Turkey, Syria and Jordan. Along the way, there is trouble at border crossings and they pick up riders – not always willingly. Eventually, in a blow-up over a gift of money to a begging woman at a well in the desert, they reach a crisis that threatens to separate them.
Language: Arabic with English subtitles.
Who: ALIF students
When: Saturday May 11 and Sunday May 12 at 6 PM
Where: ALIF Riad
Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert’s hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on.
You can watch the trailer Here
Who: ALC & ALIF and university students
When: Friday May 3 at 3 PM
Where: ALC Room Six
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen’s perennially popular story of the game of love among the British upper classes returns to the screen in this polished film adaptation. The Bennets are the parents of five daughters near the close of the 18th century. Comfortable within their means but well short of rich, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are looking for suitable husbands for their girls, and they are encouraged to learn that an eligible young bachelor from a wealthy family, Charles Bingley (Simon Woods), has moved into a nearby estate. Eager to see if a much can be made, the Bennets bring their daughters Elizabeth and Jane to a ball thrown by their new neighbour to see if sparks will fly. Jane seems to like Charles, and he appears to feel the same, but Elizabeth takes an immediate dislike to Darcy, Charles’ egocentric best friend. While Elizabeth is infatuated with military man Lt. Wickham (Rupert Friend) and finds herself courted by William Collins, a well-meaning but drab man of the cloth, fate causes Elizabeth and Darcy to frequently cross paths, and while they don’t care for one another, they can’t stop thinking about each other, either.
Language: English
Who: ALIF students
When: Friday May 3 at 6 PM
Where: ALIF Riad
The Band’s Visit
The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra, consisting of eight men, arrives in Israel from Egypt. They have been booked by an Arab cultural center in Petah Tiqva, but through a miscommunication (Arabic has no “p” sound, and regularly replaces it with “b”), the band takes a bus to Bet Hatikva, a fictional town in the middle of the Negev Desert. There is no transportation out of the city that day, and there are no hotels for them to spend the night in. The band members dine at a small restaurant where the owner, Dina (Ronit lkabetz) invites them to stay the night at her apartment, at her friends’ apartment, and in the restaurant. That night challenges all of the characters.
Language: Arabic with English subtitles.
Who: ALIF students
When: Saturday May 4 and Sunday May 5 at 6 PM
Where: ALIF Riad
The ALC Community Service Club was the first group in Morocco to join Global Youth Service Day, where young people show their caring for the community by initiating projects to help others.
On Friday April 26 several Club members visited children in Ibn Al Khatib hospital in Fez, distributing soft toys and roses. They stayed for a while to chat with the children, their mothers and staff, who clearly appreciated the thoughtful gesture.
“I feel very good and satisfied making others smile,” said ALC student Zakia El Youbi. “When you make others happy, then you smile as well.”
This year is the 25th anniversary of the popular Global Youth Service Day event, which is observed in 106 countries by groups participating in more than 4,000 projects.
Club member Sohaima Lahmine talks to a mother and child in the hospital.
A young girl discusses names for her new turtle with Club member Badr Najri
Doctors and nurses in the Children’s Wards at Hospital Ibn Al Khatib
Stephen Bryant (second left) and ALC Community Service Club Cordinator Angela Bryant (fourth right) with students from the ALC Community Service Club
For further info: Facebook group Community Service Club – Operation Reach Out or Global Youth Service Day see www.gysd.org
In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole, agrees to care for factory worker Fantine’s daughter, Cosette. The fateful decision changes their lives forever.
You can watch the trailer Here
Who: ALC & ALIF and university students
When: Friday April 26 at 3 PM
Where: ALC Room Six
Shooter
Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world’s great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honor, is a loner living in the Rockies. He’s left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he’s recruited by a lisping colonel to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia.
Language: English
Who: ALIF students
When: Friday April 26 at 6 PM
Where: ALIF Riad
Bab’Aziz
Bab’Aziz is a noble dervish who, along with his spirited granddaughter Ishtar, has been invited to attend a special gathering that is said to take place somewhere deep in the dunes of the eternal desert. There are no directions to the location of the gathering, however, as it is said that those who are meant to attend will certainly find their way. As Bab’Aziz and Ishtar set out to find their destiny through the strength of their intuition and the power of their faith, Bab’Aziz imparts the tale of an ancient prince who once made a similar pilgrimage to his beloved granddaughter.
Language: Arabic with English subtitles.
Who: ALIF students
When: Saturday April 27 and Sunday April 28 at 6 PM
Where: ALIF Riad
Faced with both her hot-tempered father’s fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.
You can watch the trailer Here
Who: ALC & ALIF and university students
When: Friday April 19 at 3 PM
Where: ALC Room Six
Red Eye
Moments after takeoff, Lisa’s seatmate, Jackson (Cillian Murphy), menacingly reveals the real reason he’s on board: He is an operative in a plot to kill a rich and powerful businessman…and Lisa is the key to its success. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed by an assassin awaiting a call from Jackson. Trapped within the confines of a jet at 30,000 feet, Lisa has nowhere to run and no way to summon help without endangering her father, her fellow passengers and her own life. As the miles tick by, Lisa knows she is running out of time as she desperately looks for a way to thwart her ruthless captor and stop a terrible murder.
Language: English
Who: ALIF students
When: Friday April 19 at 6 PM
Where: ALIF Riad
L’Enfant Endormi
In the northeast of contemporary Morocco, Zeinab, a young wife watches her husband leave the country to go underground the day after their wedding. Zeinab is expecting a child. While she is waiting for her husband to return, she lulls the foetus to sleep. Time goes by and the husband does not come back. Director Yasmine Kassari (who won the 2005 Best Director Award at Mar Del Plata Film Festival for the film) has made a film that is commendable for a debut effort from an Arab woman.
Language: Arabic with English subtitles.
Who: ALIF students
When: Saturday April 20 and Sunday April 21 at 6 PM
Where: ALIF Riad
Tell me your job…I’ll tell you who you are… by Loubna Messaoudi in Advanced 2
The one and only thing that we all fear in Moroccan society is other people’s luck. Many of us have had this fear since we were very young and it has kept on growing with us until it became normal, usual, and even necessary for us. Based on this feeling, we have learned to identify ourselves, and other people, with the jobs that we have. So, whenever you ask someone about their dream job, they make sure that the answer they give you will include a job that provides a lot of food on the table, and that would make them well-known.
Therefore, it is considered inappropriate,or even embarrassing, to tell someone you’re a carpenter rather than an architect, a plumber but not a doctor, or maid but not a principal, because it will only make that person disrespect you and therefore consider himself way better than you. The problem is that this fear has grown so big that it has started to affect families’ relationships, which means that when a man wants to get married, not only does he look for the woman he loves, but he also makes sure that she has got an important, honorable and fancy job, while his mother makes sure that the bride’s parents do aswell. All these conditions have been taken into consideration in order to put forward a front in front of people and to stop them from their usual typical gossip.
As a result, Moroccan children can’t escape from this habit either, so before going to school, they become curious about their parents’ jobs, so they can guarantee that they will never be embarrassed in front of their classmates. And in the end, we find ourselves lost in the middle of a material society that only cares about appearances, and wants to show its best, and sometimes, fake side.
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