June 2025 at Hayy Cinema

Join us this month at Hayy Cinema for a collection of films that explore memory, identity, and transformation across different lives and landscapes. From the deeply personal testimony in the Palestinian Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land to the intimate musical journey of the French Monsieur Aznavour, and the quiet, lyrical beauty of Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods, each film invites us to reflect on what it means to hold onto oneself in a rapidly changing world whether through resistance, art, or the rhythms of nature.

No Other Land offers a personal portrait of life under occupation, capturing the daily realities faced by a Palestinian community in Masafer Yatta as they resist displacement. Filmed by those living the experience, it is a powerful representation of the importance of storytelling and self-representation.

Monthly Programme

Best Documentary Feature winner at the 2025 Academy Awards

-Academy Awards

No Other Land (2024): This film follows a young activist in the occupied West Bank as his community faces repeated home demolitions. Through personal footage and intimate storytelling, it captures the struggle to remain rooted in ancestral land. A powerful testament to resilience under occupation.

Genre: Documentary Directors: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor

Country: Palestine, Norway 

Language: Arabic, Hebrew, English Subtitles: English, Arabic

“How Charles Aznavour Fought Off His Critics and Conquered the World”

-The Independent

Monsieur Azvanour (2024): A refugee’s son with a husky voice defies expectations. Through hard work and determination, Charles Aznavour overcomes poverty to become a legendary singer and icon of French culture.

Genre:  Biography/Drama/Music  Director:  Mehdi Idir

Country: France

Language: French Subtitles: English, Arabic

“Bambi Returns to the Forest in a Stunning, Poetic Reinvention​”

Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods (2024): The life of Bambi, a male roe deer, from his birth through childhood, the loss of his mother, the finding of a mate, the lessons he learns from his father, and the experience he gains about the dangers posed by human hunters in the forest.

Director: Michel Fessler Genre: Adventure/Drama/Family

Country: France

Language: French Subtitles: English/Arabic

Rendezvous with French Cinema

The monthly French cinema club with  Alliance Francaise is back!

Join us this June with the goal of practicing, listening, and strengthening French language skills with monthly screenings at Hayy Cinema.

Alphaville (1965): Lemmy Caution, an American secret agent, is sent to Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His mission is to find Henry Dickson, a missing agent, and kill the creator of Alphaville.

Genre: Sci-fi, Noir
Director: Jean Luc Godard
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: English