Continuing with its series of Lebanese films, this evening at 7.30 p.m., Casa Árabe in Madrid is screening the film Costa Brava, directed by Mounia Akl. Tickets are numbered. Screening in original version with Spanish subtitles (VOSE).
The Badri family has escaped Beirut to build their own utopia far from the pollution and conflict of the big city. However, this oasis of resistance to global capitalism is threatened by the invasion of a nearby landfill and the family’s internal conflicts. The film is an accurate portrait of a clan and their efforts to maintain an alternative lifestyle. It is Mounia Akl’s debut feature film. The film is co-written by Clara Roquet, director of “Freedom” (premiered at the Cannes Critics’ Week) and features an all-star cast led by fellow director Nadine Labaki (Caramel) and Saleh Bakri, who many describe as the Paul Newman of Arab cinema. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
