If you’re in Goa this week, you can feast your taste buds on dishes created by one of the top names in Arab culinary circles, who will be in India for the first time.
And, if you are a film buff, you can enjoy a critically-acclaimed movie from a noted Iranian film director, screenwriter and producer.
IRANIAN FILM, ‘THE WIND WILL CARRY US’
Goa’s Cinephile Film Club will host the screening of the Abbas Kiarostami masterpiece, The Wind Will Carry Us, on August 1, 2024, at the Maquinez Palace in Panjim.
Running for 116 minutes, this 1999-Persian film from one of the greatest auteurs of our time, will be presented with English subtitles.
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, the film is about an engineer who travels to the hinterland in Iran to document an event. As an 'outsider,' he witnesses the rituals and customs of the locals.
There are innumerable essays and reviews dissecting this landmark Iranian film and the metaphors.
The New York Times described it thus, ‘Its effects seem more like those of a poem or a piece of music than a movie. Requires the reverent darkness and communal solitude of a theater.’
Registrations for membership of the Cinephile Film Club are also open at www.esg.co.in.
WHERE: Maquinez Palace, Panjim
WHEN: Thursday, August 1, 2024
TIMINGS: 6.30 pm
DETAILS: https://cinephile.iffigoa.org/
AWARD-WINNING MIDDLE EASTERN CHEF
Savour a lavish spread of authentic Egyptian cuisine on August 2, 2024 at Heliconia restaurant, JW Marriott, Vagator, North Goa, where Glenfiddich presents World on a Plate (WOAP) pop-up.
The exotic 5-course menu will be paired with single malt whisky, while the event will feature Chef Mostafa Seif, a top Middle Eastern chef and executive chef of Pier88 Group, who will be in India for the first time.
Chef Mostafa is the winner of Top Chef Middle East 2018, a menu consultant and recipe developer.
He creates exceptional dishes and is considered as the best when it comes to new Egyptian cuisine, and one of the best chefs in the Middle East.
He is also part of Khufu's in Egypt, which is listed among the world’s top 50 restaurants.
WHERE: Heliconia, JW Marriott, Vagator
WHEN: Friday, August 2, 2024
TIMINGS: 7.30 pm
RESERVATIONS: +91 89562 99273