Screenings held by the RFC in 2018:
December:
Making Cinema - Italian Films Day
December 2: “The Viceroys” by Roberto Faenza, Italy, 2007
December 3: “Unfindable” by Egidio Eronico, Italy, 2015
December 4: “A Special Day” by Francesca Comencini, Italy, 2012
November:
Korean Film Days
November 12: "Ode to My Father" by JK YOUN, Korea,
2017
November 13: “My Paparotti” by YOON Jong-chan, Korea, 2013
November 14: “The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion” by PARK
Hoon-jung, Korea, 2018
November 18: “My Aunt in Sarajevo” by Goran Kapetanovic, Sweden/Bosnia, 2016
November 21: “You are Mythical” by Pedro Valiente, Spain, 2017
October:
Japanese Film Days
October 1: "Tremble All You Want” by Akiko Ohku, Japan, 2017
October 2: “Let’s Go, JETS!” by Hayato Kawai, Japan, 2017
October 3: “Parks” by Natsuki Seta, Japan, 2016
October 4: “Her Sketchbook” by Masaya Ozaki, Japan, 2017
October 15: “El Jeremias” by Anwar Safa, Mexico, 2015
October 16: “The Last Stop” by Marcio Cury, Brazil, 2012
October 23: “A Collection of Short Swiss Films (Animation,
Narrative & Documentary), Switzerland
October 24: “A Collection of Short Swiss Films (Animation,
Narrative & Documentary), Switzerland
September:
Arab Film Festival – Amman 8th Edition
September 4: “Beauty and the Dogs” by Kaouther Ben Hania,
Tunisia, 2017
September 5: “Taste of Cement” by Ziad Kalthoum, Syria, 2017
September 6: “Writing on Snow” by Rashid Masharawi, Palestine, 2017
September 7: “Kiss Me Not” by Ahmed Amer, Egypt, 2017
September 8: “Until the End of Time” by Yasmine Chouikh, Algeria, 2017
September 9: “Heaven Without People” by Lucien Bourjeily,
Lebanon, 2017
September 10: “Le Clair Obscur” by Kahoula Benomar, Morocco, 2016
September 11: “The Guest: Aleppo – Istanbul” by Andac
Haznedaroglu, Turkey/Jordan, 2017
September 26: “Screening of Short Films Produced
at Digital Filmmaking Workshop”
August:
Animation Film Days in Amman
August 6: "The Breadwinner" by Nora Twoemy, Canada 2017
August 7: "Short Animation Films"
- Negative Space
- Cubed
- Reruns
- Oh Mother!
- Spindrift
- Pioneers
- Ayny
- The Pact
August 8: "My Life as a Zucchini" by Claude Barras, Switzerland/France, 2016
August 9: "Bilal" by Ayman Jamal & Khurram H. Alavi, UAE, 2015
August 28: "The Rendezvous" by Amin Matalqa, USA/Jordan, 2016
July:
July 1: "Falcon Award Ceremony for the Jordanian Short Film Competition"
July 3: “The Curve" by Rifqi Assaf, Jordan/Egypt/France/UAE, 2015 Followed by a discussion with the director.
Palestinian Nakba in Arab Cinema
July 16: "The Door to the Sun: Part 1, Leaving" by Yousry Nasrallah, Egypt, 2004
July 17: "1000 & 1000 Nights" by Hady Zaccak, Lebanon, 1999
July 17: "Frontiers of Dreams and Fears" by Mai Masri, Palestine / USA, 2001
July 18: "Port of Memory" by Kamal Aljafari, Germany/France/UAE, 2009
July 18: "The Time That Remains" by Elia Suleiman, Palestine/France, 2009
June:
Franco-Arab Film Festival
June 24: “Wajib" by Annemarie Jacir, Palestine/France/Colombia/Germany/UAE/Qatar, 2017 Followed by a discussion with the director.
June 25: "Short Film Evening"
- Terrain Vague
- JE SUIS LA
- One Minute
June 25: "17" by Widad Shafakoj, Jordan, 2017
June 26: "Return to Bollene" by Said Hamich, France/Morocco, 2017
June 26: "The Journey" by Mohamed Al Daradji, Iraq/Canada/UK/France/Qatar/Netherlands, 2017
June 27: "Northern Wind" by Walid Mattar, Tunisia/France/Belgium, 2017. Followed by a discussion with the director.
June 27: "Central Airport" by Karim Ainouz, Germany/France/Brazil, 2018
June 28: "Still Alive" by Pauline Beugnies, Belgium, 2017 in the presence of the assistant director.
June 28: "Until the Birds Return" by Karim Moussaoui, France/Algeria/Germany, 2017
June 29: "Screening of the Jordanian short films (documentary and narrative) at the 12th Jordanian Short Film Competition"
Narrative short films
"Belle", Natalie Soumbouloglou
"Darkness", Abdallah Miqdad
"Internal Bleeding", Ghaith Al-Adwan
"Laith", Aisha Shhalte, Yasmine Nouwar, Nour Hanania
"Oud Na'em", Muhammed Khabour
"Parallel World", Tareq Baddar
"Setback of the Spirit", Sa’ed Arouri
"The Fall", Dania Al Jazi, Hamzeh, Za’balawi, Layan Nairoukh
Documentary short films
"Al-Kfarat", Ahmad Obeidat
"Color it Yellow", Leen Awad
"Crowded Sakeb", Rama Obeid
"Fatimah", Omar Rammal
"ISA", Anagheem Mohammed
"The Idea is Sacred and the Comment is Free", Hamza Al So'ub
July 30: "Volubilis" by Faouzi Bensaidi, Morocco/France/Qatar, 2017
May:
May 2: “A Man Returned" by Mahdi Fleifel, 2015
May 2: "A Drowning Man" by Mahdi Fleifel, 2017
April:
April 2: "Syrian Stories" Syria/Lebanon/Jordan/Turkey/UK, 2018
Moroccan Film Days
April 16: "Burnout" by Nour-Eddine Lakhmari, Morocco, 2017. Followed by a discussion with the director.
April 17: "Razzia" by Nabil Ayouch, Morocco, 2017. Followed by a discussion with the Moroccan film critic Ahmed Araib
April 18: "Small Pleasures" by Mohamed Chrif Tribak, Moroccan, 2015. Followed by a discussion with the director.
April 22: "Arab-German Short Co-productions"
- "Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow" by Fadi Baki, Lebanon/Germany, 2017
- "Tshweesh" by Feyrouz Serhal, Lebanon/Germany/Spain/Qatar, 2017
- "The Parrot" by Darin J. Sallam, Jordan/Germany, 2016
March:
Women's Film Week
March 15: "With Myself I Started" by Elie Nemri, Jordan/Lebanon, 2017. Followed by a discussion with the director.
March 15: "Code Girl" by Lesley Chilcott, USA, 2015
March 16: "Equal Playing Field" by Ben Jacobs, USA, 2017. Followed by a discussion with the Jordanian football players Haneen Khateeb and Yasmeen Shabsough.
March 16: "Le Brio" by Yvan Attal, France, 2017.
March 17: "A Woman's Struggle" by Elie Nemri, Jordan/Lebanon, 2018. Followed by a discussion with the director.
March 17: "Pad Man" by R. Balki, India, 2018
March 18: "The Thinking Garden" by Christine Welsh & Elizabeth Vibert, Canada, 2017. Followed by a discussion with the producer Elizabeth Vibert.
March 18: "Era O Hotel Cambridge" by Eliane Caffe, Brazil, 2016
Japanese Film Days
March 19: "A Tale of Samurai Cooking - A True Love Story" by Asahara Yuzo, Japan, 2013
March 20: "Always Sunset on Third Street" by Takashi Yamazaki, Japan, 2012
Sheffield Film Days in Amman
March 24: "69 Minutes of 86 Days" by Egil Hskjold Larsen, Norway, 2017. Followed by a discussion with the film critic Rami Abdel Razek
March 25: "The Workers Cup" by Adam Sobel, UK, 2017
March 26: "Brimstone & Glory" by Viktor Jakovleski, USA, 2017
March 27: "The Work" by Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous, USA, 2017. Followed by a discussion with the film critic Rami Abdel Razek
March 28: "City of Ghosts" by Matthew Heineman, USA, 2017. Followed by a discussion with the film critic Rami Abdel Razek
March 29: "Jordanian Short Documentaries"
- Wordcatcher by Yasmeen Afaneh, Amal El-Hudhud and Bayan Habib
- Badrya by Asmahan Brekat, Ban Maraqa and Doaa Nassar
- Why? by Ayyob Al-Qasem, Ahmad Al-Thiabat and Marwan Albayari
- Blue by Hiba Nabulsi and Walaa Alzaidan
February:
February 7: "Nour" by Khalil Zaarour, Lebanon, 2017. Followed by a discussion with the director.
A Collection of Documentary Films
February 25: "Born in Syria" by Hernan Zin, Spain/Denmark, 2016.
February 26: "Bolingo: The Forest of Love" by Alejandro G. Salgado, Spain, 2016
February 26: "One Day in Aleppo" by Ali Al-Ibrahim, Syria, 2017
February 27: "A Footnote in Ballet History" by Hisham Abdel Khalek, France/USA, 2016
February:
Films for Children
- The Sunshine Egg
- Fears
- Jonas and The Sea
- Let's Play a Story
- Lili Loves Presents
- Pikkuli Says No!
- Sing