Community Community Indian Neptune Women grass is P6Association P16 under severe organises two threat from interactive sea traff ic sessions for and climate its members. change. Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Safar 1, 1440 AH Doha today: 300 - 370 DEBUTANT: Reinaldo Marcus Green, maker of Monsters and Men. COVER Sparking change STORY The filmmaker says, “I hope the movie kind of opens up some perspective and there’s some sort of revelation that happens.” P4-5 GLITZ & GLAM SHOWBIZ A man for all seasons. How does new A Star Is Born compare with past versions? Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, October 10, 2018 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.13am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.30am Zuhr (noon) 11.21am Asr (afternoon) 2.42pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.14pm Isha (night) 6.44pm USEFUL NUMBERS Exes Baggage over their previous failed relationship. The story begins two DIRECTION: Dan Villegas years after the break up between Pia (Angelica Panganiban) CAST: Angelica Panganiban, Carlo Aquino, Dionne and Nix Cabangon (Carlo Aquino). Monsanto SYNOPSIS: Two strangers instantly hit it off after bonding THEATRES: Landmark, The Mall, Royal Plaza Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Qatar Airways 40253374 Ratsasan collects various tales of psychopaths and are reportedly kidnapped and brutally DIRECTION: Ram Kumar serial killers. Constant rejections in his murdered. Arun intuitively suggests to CAST: Amala Paul, Kaali Venkat, attempts and family constraints force his superior offi cials that this could be the Vishnu Vishal him to abandon his dream and take up wrongdoings of a psycho killer, but they SYNOPSIS: Arun Kumar is an aspiring the job of a police offi cer. Meanwhile in neglect his theories. fi lmmaker. In his pursuit of the craft, he the Chennai city, a number of school girls THEATRE: The Mall ote Unquo u te Q “Failure will The Mall Cinema (1): Love Wall (2D) 3pm; Venom (2D) never overtake me if my Yatri (HIndi) 2:30pm; Venom 5pm; Johnny English Strikes determination to succeed is (2D) 5pm; Venom (2D) 7pm; A Again (2D) 7pm; Exes Baggage Star Is Born (2D) 9pm; A Star Is (Malayalam) 11pm. (Tagalog) 8:45pm; Kayamkulam strong enough.” Born (2D) 11:30pm. Landmark Cinema (1): Kochunni (Malayalam) 10:45pm. The Mall Cinema (2): Harvie Smallfoot (2D) 2:15pm; 96 Royal Plaza Cinema Palace — Og Mandino And The Magic Museum (2D) (Tamil) 4pm; Venom (2D) 7pm; (1): Smallfoot (2D) 3pm; Exes 2:15pm; Smallfoot (2D) 4pm; A Star Is Born (2D) 9pm; Venom Baggage (Tagalog) 4:45pm; Johnny English Strikes Again (2D) 11:30pm. Exes Baggage (Tagalog) (2D) 5:45pm; Exes Baggage Landmark Cinema (2): Harvie 6:45pm; Venom (2D) 8:45pm; (Tagalog) 7:30pm; Venom (2D) And The Magic Museum (2D) Kayamkulam Kochunni Community Editor 9:30pm; Venom (2D) 11:30pm. 3pm; Johnny English Strikes (Malayalam) 10:45pm. Kamran Rehmat The Mall Cinema (3): Chekka Again (2D) 5pm; Exes Baggage Royal Plaza Cinema Palace e-mail: [email protected] Chivantha Vaanam (Tamil) (Tagalog) 7pm; Kayamkulam (3): Love Yatri (HIndi) 2:30pm; Telephone: 44466405 3pm; Andhadhun (Hindi) 6pm; Kochunni (Malayalam) 9pm. Venom (2D) 5pm; Venom (2D) Fax: 44350474 Andhadhun (Hindi) 8:30pm; Landmark Cinema (3): The 7pm; A Star Is Born (2D) 9pm; Kayamkulam Kochunni House With A Clock in Its Venom (2D) 11:30pm. Wednesday, October 10, 2018 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY Cycling: Losail Circuit Sports Club WHERE: Losail Circuit WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 5pm Losail Circuit Sports Club, in association with Qatar Sports For All Federation, invites all cyclists, runners and walkers to train under the floodlights of Losail International Circuit every Wednesdays. After School Activities WHERE: Atelier WHEN: Ongoing Music and arts Activities for students taking place after they finish their day in school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 years old after school hours. Hobby Classes WHERE: Mystic Arts Centre behind Al Hilal Focus Medical Centre WHEN:Wednesday – Monday Mystic Art Centre, is a holistic performing artsinstitution and a one stop solution for adults as well as children looking to explore their talents in various art forms. We offer classes in Carnatic Gymnastics World Championships Music, Hindustani Music, Karate, Yoga, WHERE: Aspire Dome Zumba, Classical Dance, Salsa, Hip Hop, WHEN: October 25 – November 3 contemporary and Bollywood dance forms. EVENTS lecture on ‘How To Lose Weight’ to be Over 700 male and female gymnasts from For details, call 4723680/ 33897609. conducted by Dr Doaa Farid, Senior over 80 countries, including three Team Breast Cancer Awareness Dietitian. Qatar gymnasts, will compete across 10 WHERE: InterContinental Doha days of competition in Doha’s ionic Aspire WHEN: Ongoing TCA QATAR Music Competition 2018 Dome. Experience the drama, emotions and InterContinental Doha – The City is WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf excitement of gymnastics’ pinnacle event organising several activities (especially Times Building as global superstars go head to head in a bid at its various dining venues) that focus WHEN: Ongoing till October 13 to be crowned the best in the world. on highlighting the importance of early Enroll for music competition in detection. Try the pink afternoon tea, the categories, including Sub Juniors ( Grade Aspire Torch Staircase Run 2018 extravagant pink Bar Squared Brunch at 3-5 ), Juniors (Grade 6 - 8 ), Intermediate WHERE: The Torch Doha Hotel The Square and pink-themed nights at (Grade 9- 12) and Seniors (above 17 years ). WHEN: November 10 Strata Restaurant and Lounge. Registration fee QR30. For further details, TIME: 1pm – 6pm contact 66523871/44373259 Aspire Zone Foundation (AZF) announces Kayaking Tour opening registration for the seventh annual WHERE: Al Dhakira Mangroves ‘Aspire Torch Staircase Run’ scheduled WHEN: Ongoing till October 13 to take place on November 10. The 2018 TIME: 3pm – 4pm edition of the Aspire Torch Staircase Run Weather is getting great, migrating birds (ATSR 2018), will offer sports enthusiasts Dance and instrument classes are back to Qatar for most of them, high the ultimate challenge of endurance, as WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf chances to see Flamingos and super great runners will have to make their way to the Times Building fun to paddle through green mangrove top of the 300m tower to the 51st floor, WHEN: Wednesday – Monday channels. Don’t miss your chance. The trip climbing more than 1300 steps. Learn the movements of dance styles is lead by an ecology specialist and Kayak in Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the instructors. musical instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard for adults as well kids and move in the world of music. For details, contact 66523871/ 31326749. Kufic Beginners WHERE: MIA WHEN: Ongoing till Oct 26 TIME: 10:30am – 12:30pm Katara Beach - School Students The word ‘Kufic’ is related to the city WHERE: Katara of the same name in Iraq, Kufa, and WHEN: Ongoing was developed from Hijazi script. Kufic Qatar Finance and Installment TIME: 9am – 12pm calligraphy is characterised by its bold Exhibition By participating in the programme of and vertical letters which often looks like WHERE: DECC ‘Our culture is a school’, Katara Beach modern design. Join us for this 4-session WHEN: November 3 – Novovember15 emphasises the Qatari marine tradition short course to learn this early and TIME: 7pm – 10pm and introduces to students the meaning of beautiful script! The QFI Exhibition is a 3-day event that Dasha, Al Qafal and various type of pearls. brings together the best of Qatar’s finance The students will discover all details of the Andalusian Music Show community, and local and international Fath El-Kheir journey. WHERE: Katara visitors who are keen to access Qatar’s WHEN: October 23 robust market. We are pleased to present Healthy Weight Loss TIME: 7pm – 8pm this opportunity to local and international WHERE: Al Waab Street, Doha Cultural Village Foundation - Katara investors, banking, finance and government WHEN: Tomorrow and The Algerian Embassy invites you to institutions, along with leading firms in TIME: 6pm – 7pm attend Andalusian Music show by Nassima the real estate, investment and fin-tech Queen Hospital proudly presents a Chaabane, musician and singer. sectors. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, October 10, 2018 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Rooting for a cause Navigating America’s current socio-political climate — from the persistent deaths of unarmed Afro-American folks by police to the Time’s Up and #MeToo conversations taking place everywhere from college campuses to Capitol Hill — requires choices to be made (With just over 2,000 followers on Twitter) if I put out a tweet, nobody’s looking at it. But if I make a film, this is my tweet to the world and I could say something that might be ‘able to build — Reinaldo Marcus Green, filmmaker By Tre’vell Anderson mong them, one can remain silent in the hopes the chaos of the world might self-correct in due time. Or one can do something to spark change. Reinaldo Marcus Green, with Ahis feature debut, Monsters and Men, in theatres now, chose the latter. “It’s about people coming out and’ supporting and talking about it and then doing something, however small,” the writer-director said about his film.