A showcase of international films every week DATE CINE 13 22 JAN MOBIUS 29 JAN QUAI D’ORSAY 5 FEB ERNEST & CELESTINE Playing at 12 FEB LES GAMINS 19 FEB CAPITAL 26 FEB TITEUF LE FILM 5 MAR LA MARCHE SUR LA PISTE DU 12 MAR in Ibn Battuta Mall MARSUPILAMI 19 MAR A L’AVEUGLE 26 MAR 20 ANS D’ECART Gulf Film launches FILM LINE-UP at Grand Cinemas In partnership with Institut Français and Alliance Française and in association with the Frensh Embassy in the UAE, MÖBIUS promises year-round calendar of International and Directed by Eric Rochant French cinema. With Jean Dujardin, Cécile de France, As part of their joint mission to cater to a growing audience Tim Roth and Emilie Dequenne. of film aficionados, GULF FILM and GRAND CINEMAS with the Frensh Embassy in the UAE have joined their efforts THRILLER to bring the best of international and French cinema to the UAE public. For the first time, a new international film will be offered to moviegoers every week, with screenings available every day. The Film Festival, hosted at theatre number 13 at Grand Cinemas Ibn Battuta Mall, is a first-of-its-kind event. The Film Festival is a wonderful opportunity for audiences in the UAE to enjoy a unique and compelling Gregoy Lioubov, a Russian secret services officer who goes line-up of films which will be as diverse as French cinema is: by the alias Moses, is sent to Monaco to keep watch over a from heart-pounding thrillers, to delightful family and powerful businessman. For this mission, his team hires Alice, children’s films, to action blockbusters. a top-notch financial expert who infiltrates the company. launches January 20th with the red carpet premiere Gregory suspects that Alice has betrayed them; he breaks of the festival’s first offering, the captivating international the golden rule and makes contact with his clandestine thriller Möbius, starring Jean Dujardin, Cécile de France and agent. An impossible passion develops between them which Tim Roth. inexorably leads to their downfall. The weekly film showcase will be introduced into the cinema schedule beginning January 22nd, with an exciting 2014 calendar that includes Quai D’orsay, Zarafa and La Marche. QUAI D’ORSAY LES GAMINS Directed by Anthony Marciano Directed by Bertrand Tavernier With Alain Chabat and Mat Boublil With Thierry Lhermitte and Niels Arestrup COMEDY COMEDY The antics of the political class have provided much fodder over the years for artists and writers with a satiric bent — just think of television’s Yes Minister, its successor Yes, Prime Minister, and the more recent West Wing. A young, frustrated musician finds unexpected kinship One of the great names of French cinema, Bertrand with his girlfriend’s father. Tavernier,has now joined this illustrious chorus with his withering take on contemporary French politics as played out in the Élysée Palace and the Quai d’Orsay, home of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Little escapes Tavernier’s blistering assault — based on the award-winning graphic novel by Abel Lanzac, a former government speechwriter — which revels in all the comedic CAPITAL possibilities yet remains grounded in the prejudices of the Directed by Costa-Gavras moment. Quai d’Orsay is gleeful enjoyment, and wicked in With Gad Elmaleh and Gabriel Byrne both intent and effect. DRAMA ERNEST & CELESTINE Directed by Benjamin Renner, Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar ANIMATION In the conventional world of bears, it is not the done thing to become The newly appointed CEO of a giant European investment friends with a mouse. bank works to hold on to his power when an American Nevertheless, Ernest, a big bear hedge fund company tries to buy out his company. who happens to also be a clown and musician, takes in Celestine, an orphan who has fled the underground world of rodents. These two solitary creatures help and comfort each other, thereby disrupting the established order. TITEUF LE FILM SUR LA PISTE DU Directed by ZEP With Donald Reignoux, Zabou Breitman, Sam Karmann, Mélanie Bernier, Jean Rochefort and Maria Pacome MARSUPILAMI FAMILY COMEDY Directed by Alain Chabat What on earth is going on? Nadia With Jamel Debbouze, Alain Chabat, is about to celebrate her birthday and Titeuf wasn’t invited! Why not? Lambert Wilson and Géraldine Nakache How could she have forgotten him, given the well-rehearsed, super- FAMILY COMEDY seductive attitude he puts on every time their paths cross? But bigger disasters will push Titeuf’s world further into chaos as once again adults prove just how lame they can be. They’re always complicating everything. Titeuf is about to be pulled in every direction: between Grandma’s house in the country, sessions with his shrink and important meetings on the playground. True to form, Titeuf will try to decipher what is happening to him and will devise many disastrous strategies to fix his ailing life. All this, of course, without ever losing sight of his true When Dan Geraldo, a reporter on the look-out for a scoop, objective: to be invited to Nadia’s birthday party! arrives in Palombia, he doesn’t yet know that he is about to make a most amazing discovery. With Pablito, a hugely resourceful local guide, Dan will live an exciting adventure, confront a diabolical botanist, famished piranhas, a dictator with a deeply hidden secret, the Paya tribe with an age-old LA MARCHE prophecy, and finally reveal the most extraordinary news: the Directed by Nabil Ben Yadir Marsupilami, the mythical and mischievous animal, With Olivier Gourmet,Tewfik Jallab, truly exists! Vincent Rottiers and Jamel Debbouze DRAMA In 1983 in France plagued by intolerance and acts of racial violence, three young teenagers and the priest Mingvettes launch a largely peaceful march for equality and against racism, more than 1000 km between Paris and Masseille. Despite the difficulties and the resistance encounters, their movement will give rise to a real surge of hope in the manner of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. They unite their arrival over 100,000 people from all backgrounds and give France it’s new face. A L’AVEUGLE COMING SOON Directed by Xavier Palud With Lambert Wilson and Jacques Gamblin THRILLER / ACTION The mutilated corpse of a young woman is discovered in her home. No evidence of break-in, no witnesses: the crime is perfect. The investigation is left to Captain Lassalle, an experienced and solitary cop, destroyed by his wife’s death. While other, equally as bloody murders are carried out, Lassalle is intrigued by the personality of a blind man named Narvik. But the suspect’s alibi is plausible and his disability eliminates him from the enquiry. What ensues is a strange cat-and-mouse game between the two men. 20 ANS D’ECART Directed by David Moreau With Virginie Efira, Pierre Niney, Charles Berling and Gilles Cohen ADULT COMEDY Alice Lantins is 38 years old. She’s beautiful, ambitious, and her private life is nonexistant thanks to her impeccable professional conscience. In short, she has everything required to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine - everything except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20 years old, crosses Alice’s path, her colleagues’ attitude inexplicably changes. Realising that she holds the key to her promotion, Alice stages the comedy of an improbable idyll. @GulfFilm @GulfFilm.