Into the Wild
Director: Sean Penn.
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden and William Hurt.
Synopsis: After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life. Based on a true story.
Good News Cinema, 9:30 pm.
14 Kilometres
Director: Gerardo Olivares.
Starring: Mahamadou Alzouma and Aminata Kanta.
Synopsis: 14 Kilometers is the short distance between North Africa and Spain. For immigrants, it is an incredibly long journey. To escape an arranged marriage with a lascivious old man, Violeta, a teenager who lives by a riverside village in Mali, decides to run off to a faraway place.
Meanwhile, in neighboring Niger, mechanic Buba is a skilled soccer player; his brother is in Europe, where “nobody dies of hunger.
Cairo Opera House’s Artistic Creativity Center, 6:30 pm.
La Soledad
Director: Jaime Rosales.
Starring: Sonia Almarcha and Miriam Correa.
Synopsis: Separated, Adela leaves her small native village in the north of Leon and moves to Madrid with her infant son. To pay her way, she finds a job as a hostess and moves into a flat with Carlos and Ines. Adela does not find it particularly difficult to adapt to city life, despite not receiving much financial help from her the father of her son. But a terrorist attack that takes place as she rides in a bus shatters her whole being. From then on, she has to find the strength to return to a normal life.
City Stars Cinema, 9:30 pm
Boogie
Directed by: Radu Muntean. Starring: Anamaria Marinca and Dragos Bucur.
Synopsis: On his spring break at the seaside, with his wife and his four-year-old son, Bogdan Ciocazanu runs into his best friends from high-school at the precise date and time that reminds all of them of their most glorious drinking trips and the sexual escapades of their younger days. Frustrated that, between his job and his family, time is no longer his to manage and play with, Boogie now takes his shock dosage of freedom and spends a night to tick off all the items on the map of his youth.
Cairo Opera House’s Small Theater, 8 pm.
