Film Screenings at Alliance Française - September 2020
This month, the screenings at Alliance Française in Dubai have been reduced from 5 days a week to 2 days a week, Thursdays dedicated to young audiences and Saturdays for adults.
The screenings are free for Alliance Française students, AED 25 for Alliance Française members and AED 45 for non-members. You can buy tickets from here, and this is the location map.
Here’s the line up:
Thursday, September 3 at 4.00pm:
Les petits malins
Short movies program for the little ones. Suitable for 2 to 5 years old.
Saturday, September 5 at 5.00pm:
Le Nouveau / The New Kid (dir. Rudi Rosenberg, 2015)
Benoit, the new kid at school, is bullied by a gang of arrogant boys. Determined not to be pushed around, Benoit organises a big party, but only three students turn up. What if this bunch of losers was to be the best gang ever?
Thursday, September 10 at 4.00pm
En sortant de l'école / Leaving School (2019)
A collection of 13 animated films accompanied by Jean Tardieu poems. Duration 40 minutes. Suitable for 7 years old and above.
Saturday, September 12 at 5.00pm
Madame Hyde / Mrs. Hyde (dir. Serge Bozon, 2017)
Mrs. Géquil is an eccentric teacher despised by her colleagues and students. On a stormy night, she is struck by lightening and faints. When she wakes up, she feels decidedly different… Now will Mrs. Géquil be able to keep the powerful and dangerous Mrs. Hyde contained?
Thursday, September 17 at 4.00pm:
Un animal, des animaux / Animals and More Animals (dir. Nicolas Philibert, 1996)
Philibert films Zoology Gallery of the National Museum of Natural History (today known as the Great Gallery of Evolution) for a period of reforms which lasted from 1991 until 1994. The documentary shows how to perform dissection, how to transport and restore some of the pieces in the collection, such as elephants, rhinos, gorillas and giraffes. Suitable for 5 years old and above.
Saturday, September 19 at 5.00pm
Les grands esprits / The Teacher (dir. Olivier Ayache-Vidal, 2017)
A teacher in the most prestigious high school in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris. Trapped in a situation where he’s forced to accept a job in a school of a tough underprivileged suburb, he finds himself confronted to his own limits and to the upheaval of his values and certainties.
September, Thursday 24 at 4.00pm:
La planète sauvage / Fantastic Planet (dir. René Laloux, 1973)
In the distant future, the gargantuan blue humanoid Draags have brought human beings (who are called Oms as a play on the French word for man “homme”) from Earth to the planet Ygam, where they maintain a technologically and spiritually advanced society. Suitable for 13 years old and above.
Saturday, September 26 at 5.00pm:
C'est Quoi Cette Mamie ? / Who's That Granny? (dir. Gabriel Julien-Laferrière, 2019)
After two years of joyous home sharing, the tribe of 7 half-siblings must leave the large apartment before the beginning of school year.
While everyone goes on vacation for the summer with their respective parents, Gulliver, the youngest, is sent alone to his grandmother's house by the sea. But the eccentric Mamie Aurore is not a babysitter, like the others, prefers to party rather than keep his grandson. The rest of the troop decides to come to his rescue. This is the beginning of a new revolution.