<strong><em><span>A Ciambra</span></em></strong> <span>Jonas Carpignano directs Italy’s submission for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, the tale of a streetwise 14-year old Romany boy who has to grow up quickly when his older brother mysteriously disappears.</span> <em><span>Vox 6, Mall of the Emirates, 3.30pm</span></em> ___________________ <em><strong><span>Faces Places</span></strong></em> <span>This French documentary teams up the unlikely pairing of French new-wave cinema legend Agnes Varda and enfant terrible of the graffiti scene, </span><span>enigmatic "photograffeur" JR. Together, the duo travel through France in a van, meeting and photographing the country-folk and ordinary people they encounter along the way. The results are compelling and often beautiful. At Cannes this year, the </span><span>French Writers Society jury awarded the film the prestigious Golden Eye, or L'Oeil d'Or award, for best documentary across all official selections.</span> <em><span>Vox 1, Mall of the Emirates, 6.45pm</span></em> ___________________ <em><strong><span>Where To?</span></strong></em> <span><em>Where To?</em></span><span> is the 60-year-old directorial masterpiece from Georges Nasser. Dubbed the grandfather of Lebanese cinema, Nasser returns with the restored print version of his classic, a film that ushered Lebanon into the Cannes Film Festival for the first time in 1957.</span> <em><span>The Beach, JBR, 7.30pm</span></em> ___________________ <em><strong><span>The Shape of Water</span></strong></em> <span><em>Pan's Labyrinth</em></span><span> director Guillermo del Toro returns with a typically weird, extraordinary piece of cinematic art. Sally Hawkins stars as Eliza, a mute cleaning lady working in a Baltimore government research laboratory in 1962 who stumbles upon a strange marine creature that</span><span> is being experimented on. Through their respective limitations, they begin to communicate and Eliza starts to fall in love.</span> <em><span>Madinat Arena, </span></em><span><em>9pm</em></span> ___________________ <em><strong><span>Wajib</span></strong></em> <span>Annemarie Jacir returns to the festival with </span><span><em>Wajib</em></span><span>, winner of the Don Quijote </span><span>Award at the Locarno </span><span>Festival and this year's Palestinian Oscar entry. </span><span><em>Wajib</em></span><span><em> </em></span><span>follows a day in the life of Abu Shadi and his son Shadi. With his sister's wedding a month away, Shadi travels to help his father in the customary hand-delivery of the wedding invitations. As the estranged pair spend the day together, the tense details of their relationship come to a head, challenging their fragile and very different lives.</span> <em><span>Madinat Theatre, 10.15pm</span></em>
