SAFAR Film Festival: My Lost Country + Q&ACert-TBC

Directed by Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez | Chile/Iraq/Egypt/Costa Rica | 2022 | 1h 34m | Arabic w/ English subtitles

Iraqi theater director Mohsen Sadoon Yasin has spent much of his life in involuntary exile. In this deeply personal documentary, Mohsen’s daughter uses family photographs, theatre posters, newspaper clippings and sound recordings to track her father’s global travels. The film presents a patchwork of imaginings, textures and references to theater, rituals and Sumerian cosmology. There is also the constant presence of Iraq, the inaccessible core that Mohsen Sadoon Yasin carries within him, along with the folk songs still echoing in his mind.

SAFAR Film Festival screening followed by a Q&A with the film’s director Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez.

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Sunday 2 July

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What else is on?

Today (Friday 2nd June)

15:30

Plan 75 15
1h 53m | Japanese w/ English subtitles
Dystopian sci-fi set in a near-future Japan where the government introduces a measure to combat the burden of an ageing population – encouraging its senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanised.

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18:00

Are You There God? It's Me, Marg PG
1h 46m
Based on Judy Blume’s classic novel from 1970, a humourous and empathetic coming-of-age comedy following the tumultuous adolescence of a teenage girl growing up in New Jersey.

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20:30

The Eight Mountains 12A
2h 27m | Italian w/ English subtitles
Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch's beautifully shot, decade-spanning epic following the lives of two Italian boys growing up together in a secluded alpine village.

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Tomorrow (Saturday 3rd June)

15:15

A Clever Woman 15
Director Q&A
1h 28m
Beguiling chamber drama in which two sisters return to their family home and face up to the ghosts of their past. Join us on Saturday 3 June for a special post-screening Q&A with director Jon Sanders.

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18:00

Plan 75 15
1h 53m | Japanese w/ English subtitles
Dystopian sci-fi set in a near-future Japan where the government introduces a measure to combat the burden of an ageing population – encouraging its senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanised.

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20:30

Are You There God? It's Me, Marg PG
1h 46m
Based on Judy Blume’s classic novel from 1970, a humourous and empathetic coming-of-age comedy following the tumultuous adolescence of a teenage girl growing up in New Jersey.

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Plan your visit

Our beautiful art deco inspired auditorium can be found just off East Oxford's Cowley Road. We are open 7 days a week. We open the cinema and box office 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of each film, and the Box Office then closes 10 minutes after the film starts. We don’t show adverts, just a couple of trailers, so don't be late as the film itself starts very close to the advertised time!