TOUR DATES AND VENUES: Cork Film Centre: September 21st Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria: September 25th - 27th 'Live@8' Club, Galway: September 30th 'Darklight Film Festival', Dublin, October 9th 'DEAF: Dublin Electronic Arts Festival, Dublin, October 21st - 31st 'El Teatro', Tunis, Tunisia, Dates TBC Gort Cinema Club, Galway, November 8th 'La Maison Des Cineastes', Nouakchott, Mauritania, Dates TBC Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow, November 15th

PARTICIPATING FILMMAKERS Mohamed Allam, Usama Alshaibi, Taysir Batniji, Mary Sue Connolly, Wael Darwish, Vivienne Dick, Ahmed El-Gendy, Shady El-Noshokaty, Ahmed El-Shaer, Mounira El-Solh, Karim Fanous, Film Flamme/Polygone Etoile, Dina Gamal, Khaled Hafez, Mohamed Hamad, Jaki Irvine, Shady Ishak, Paddy Jolley, Islam Kamal, Ahmed Khaled, Anthony Kelly & David Stalling, James Kelly, Johnny Kelly, Alan Lambert, Ahmed Nabil, Wael Noureddine, Donal O'Ceilleachair, Hala Abou Shady, Moira Tierney, Diana El-Jaroudi

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BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA, ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT. September 25-27

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a library and cultural centre in Alexandria. It is built on the site of the original ancient Alexandrian Library and hosts many multi-media and multi-disciplinary events. It regularly hosts programmes of world cinema - recently screening a Korean cinema season and a retrospective from the old Cairo studios. The Solus programme will be their first Irish screening. The screenings will take place as an extra-programme event in the small conference hall, or Auditorium.
Website: http://www.bibalex.org
Auditorium: http://www.bibalex.org/English/conferences/seminarrooms.htm
We will be screening the above programme with an additional third programme consisting of new works and retrospectives from Irish film-makers Vivienne Dick and Paddy Jolley.
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'EL TEATRO', TUNIS, TUNISIA, October - Dates TBC

'El Teatro, espace d'art et de creation', is one of the premiere venues for creative arts in Tunisia, founded in 1987 by Taoufik Jebali. It encourages the emergence of young talent and offers a platform for artists from Tunisia, the North and South Mediterranean and the Arab countries. The El Teatro space accommodates performance and exhibition in many disciplines, with a stage measuring 8m x 9m x 4m, and an Auditorium with a capacity of 250; http://www.elteatro.net/index.php?com=31&id=1&action=show_details&menu=115
Website: http://www.elteatro.net
Here Solus will be presenting the above programmes and Moira Tierney and David Stalling will be conducting a 3 day workshop.

Full programme TBC
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'LA MAISON DES CINEASTES', NOUAKCHOTT, MAURITANIA, October / November - Dates TBC

'La Maison Des Cineastes', Mauritania, is an independent cultural establishment, created in 2003 by Mr. Abderrahmane Ahmed Salem and Abderrahmane Sissako. One of the aims of 'La Maison Des Cineastes' is to create a culture and industry of cinematography in Mauritania which incudes programmes on formation, production, diffusion and archiving. La Maison Des Cineastes works with 35 permanent operatives and 200 young volunteers.
Website: http://www.lamaisondescineastes.com

Full programme TBC
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