{"id":212294,"date":"2019-04-14T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=212294"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:31:15","slug":"sesc-festival-to-feature-arab-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/sesc-festival-to-feature-arab-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"SESC festival to feature Arab movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The movie <em>Yara<\/em>, a Lebanese-Iraqi-French production, will be featured in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sescsp.org.br\/programacao\/183150_CIRCUITO+INDIE+FESTIVAL+2019#\/content=programacao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Circuito Indie Festival 2019<\/a>, a film festival slated for April at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sescsp.org.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Service of Commerce (SESC)<\/a>\u00a0units throughout the state of S\u00e3o Paulo. <em>Yara<\/em> will show Tuesday (16) at 6pm in Jundia\u00ed and 8pm in Piracicaba. The movie is rated 12+ and admission is free.<\/p>\n<p>Set in Northern Lebanon, <em>Yara<\/em> tells the story of a young woman who lives with her grandfather in a farm on Qadisha Valley. The area is uneventful, since most of the former residents have either moved or passed away. But the girl\u2019s life takes a twist once she meets Elias, a young wanderer who stops by the farm. Yara lives out a summertime romance with him amid tending to the goats, feeding the chickens, doing the laundry and taking sun baths.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was directed by Abbas Fahdel, who was born in Babylon, Iraq, but has been living in France \u2013 where he attended Film School at Sorbonne \u2013 since his youth. His past work includes documentary work and a fictional feature film about Iraq. In the 2002 documentary <em>Back to Babylon<\/em>, he recounts a trip back to Iraq after many years away.<\/p>\n<p>The festival will span in the cities of Santos, Sorocaba, Presidente Prudente and Araraquara, in addition to Jundia\u00ed and Piracicaba. Featured movies include <em>Tower. A bright day<\/em> (Poland), <em>Parquet<\/em> (France), <em>The Graduate<\/em> (USA), <em>Asako I &amp; II<\/em> (France-Japan), <em>Before We Vanish<\/em> (Japan), <em>Breathless<\/em> (France), and <em>Closeness<\/em> (Russia). The event will run until April 30 and all sessions are free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quick facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Circuito Indie Festival 2019<br \/>\nSesc Santos, Sorocaba, Presidente Prudente, Araraquara, Jundia\u00ed, Piracicaba<br \/>\nThrough April 30, 2019<br \/>\nFree admission \u2013 collect your ticket one hour prior to session<br \/>\nFind out more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sescsp.org.br\/programacao\/183150_CIRCUITO+INDIE+FESTIVAL+2019#\/content=programacao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-212285\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Units of the Social Service of Commerce throughout the state of S\u00e3o Paulo will host screenings of movies made in several countries, including \u2018Yara,\u2019 which is set in Lebanon with directing from the French-Iraqi Abbas Fahdel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":212285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[339,8163,8167,8159,6714,3838,7722,591,27310,1827,2758,8168,502,8160],"class_list":{"0":"post-212294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-lebanon","9":"tag-abbas-fahdel","10":"tag-babylon","11":"tag-circuito-indie-festival-2019","12":"tag-director","13":"tag-film","14":"tag-filmmaker","15":"tag-iraq","16":"tag-iraque-en","17":"tag-movie","18":"tag-qadisha","19":"tag-qadisha-valley","20":"tag-sesc","21":"tag-yara"},"wps_subtitle":"Units of the Social Service of Commerce throughout the state of S\u00e3o Paulo will host screenings of movies made in several countries, including \u2018Yara,\u2019 which is set in Lebanon with directing from the French-Iraqi Abbas Fahdel.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}