Films
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Film: Journey to Mecca (30th Mar)
In the footsteps of Ibn Battuta
Friday 30 March 2012, 13.15
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
Free, booking advised
The incredible true story of Ibn Battuta, who set out from Morocco in 1325 on an epic journey to the sacred city of Mecca. With stunning imagery and released to critical acclaim around the world, the film includes extraordinary and moving footage of Hajj.
Director: Bruce Neibaur
2009, 45 mins, PG
Please arrive punctually to guarantee admission.
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Film: Journey to Mecca (3rd Feb)
In the footsteps of Ibn Battuta
Friday 3 February 2012, 18.30
BP Lecture Theatre
£3, Members/concessions £2
The incredible true story of Ibn Battuta, who set out from Morocco in 1325 on an epic journey to the sacred city of Mecca. With stunning imagery and released to critical acclaim around the world, the film includes extraordinary and moving footage of Hajj.
Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.
Director: Bruce Neibaur
2009, 45 mins, PG
Please arrive punctually to guarantee admission.
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Journeys to Mecca: archive film afternoon
Saturday 25 February 2012, 13.30 - 17.00
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
£10, Members/concessions £6
An afternoon of talks and early documentaries and films featuring Hajj and Mecca.
Includes a Dutch silent film (1928), a Malaysian short (1955) and the documentary Circling the House of God (2010) in which Dr Martin Lings recounts his first pilgrimage to Mecca in 1948, with talks by the director Ovidio Salazar and John Slight, independent researcher.
Please arrive punctually to guarantee admission.
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Lawrence of Arabia
Friday 17 February 2012, 18.30
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
£3, Members/concessions £2
Peter O’Toole stars as T.E. Lawrence in David Lean’s classic Oscar-winning epic. The film depicts Lawrence’s experiences in the Arabian Desert during the First World War in the Arab revolt against the Turks.
Director: David Lean
1962, 216 mins, 12
Please arrive punctually to guarantee admission.
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Le grand voyage
Friday 13 April 2012, 18.30
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
£3, Members/concessions £2
A thoughtful and engaging film about the relationship between a devout French/Moroccan father and his reluctant teenage son as they go on pilgrimage to Mecca by car.
This is the first feature film shot during Hajj.
In Moroccan Arabic and French with English subtitles.
Director: Ismaël Ferroukhi
2004, 108 mins, PG
Please arrive punctually to guarantee admission.
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Lord Jim
Saturday 3 March 2012, 14.00
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
£3, Members/concessions £2
Starring Peter O’Toole and based on Joseph Conrad’s novel.
Jim is a promising young English merchant seaman who joins the S.S. Patna, crammed with hundreds of Muslims on pilgrimage to Mecca.
Director: Richard Brooks
1965, 154 mins, PG
Please arrive punctually to guarantee admission.
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Malcolm X
Friday 10 February 2012, 18.30
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
£3, Members/concessions £2
Biopic of the legendary civil rights leader with a powerful performance by Denzel Washington. The film sweeps through Malcolm X’s life from his criminal career to his conversion to Islam, his split with the Nation of Islam, his pilgrimage to Mecca and finally his assassination.
Director: Spike Lee
1992, 202 mins, 15
Please arrive punctually to guarantee admission.
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Roads to Mecca
Saturday 17 March 2012, 14.00
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
Free, booking advised
This documentary follows the Muslim and non-Muslim members of a film crew as they try to make the first IMAX movie on Hajj, Journey to Mecca. The film interweaves the tale of the 14th-century pilgrimage of Ibn Battuta with the filmmakers’ attempts to film in Mecca where entrance for non-Muslims is strictly forbidden.
Directors: Taran Davies & Ghasem Ebrahimian
2010, 65 mins, PG
Please arrive punctually to guarantee admission.
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