Ghaleb Jaber Martinez: Director of the Amal Festival. Atalaya Parga: Coordinator of the Amal Festival. Eduardo Galan: Director of Programming of the TVG. In the occasion of displaying the definitive program, the parallel activities and the new features of the Amal Festival 08, Thursday 02 of October 12:00 in the Cunqueiro Hall the Hotel Meliá Araguaney is summoned a press round. - DEFINITIVE PROGRAM. With the closing of the participant film selection, the Festival Amal 08, has the pleasure to put to disponibilidade of the well-taken care of retrospective Galician public and a representative one of the movements around the Arab culture in the world-wide cinematography, with special enfasis in the cinema in the Arab culture. In the category of long films it will be counted on two sections, the competitive one of Documentary and Fiction and the restoration to our programming of the Golfa Session; films at midnight between which it emphasizes Central Station, opera magna of controverted Egyptian director Yusef Chahine, deceased this same year . The Amal Festival, shares names and proposals with the most important festivais of the world. The last film of Chus Gutiérrez, Return to Hansala, will be a premiere with the Seminci of Valladolid; La maison jaune won al Muestra of Valencia. Our films could be seen at Paris, Tetouan, Toronto, Chicago or Tanger. - PARALLEL ACTIVITIES. This year they even see marked by the strong bet of the Amal Festival by the parallel activities that even imply the greater public, from estudantado the compostelana society in general. One is a true opening that does not do more than to reaffirm the will of the organizers of erixir itself in good condition, to approach the Arab culture and to tend bridges between our countries. All these bets are, really a newness that is going to mark devir of the Amal Festival. The closing will count for the first time on music in direct. The Festival Amal 08 incorporates for the first time to Sala Capitol, the compostelan concert hall is already a reference of live music in the city. The band of fusion Speed Caravan will fill of tecno and traditional rates the goodbye of the festival. Gastronomy will be an important part of the festival with an special arab menu displayed at Caney restaurant Once again Amal Festival will count with an exhibition on a gallery in Melia Araguaney Hotel, this year a selection of photos called Palestine before 1948, will approach an unseen image of Plestine and its life before te occupation beyond the zionist vision. An initiative of: Araguaney Foundation Collaborating Institutions: Together Arab house AECID of Galicia Presidency. Secretariat of Communication and Main directorate of Audio-visual Communication. Xunta-Consellería de Cultura and Deporte Join Council of Innovation and Industry. Main directorate of Tourism. City council of Santiago USC Vicerrectoría de Cultura USC. Faculty of wool Sciences Turgalicia Information Foundation Box Galicia Patrocinadores: CTV, Melia, Hut, Polbographix RTVG. For more information TEL: 981 559612 | FAX: 981 598854 email: prensa@araguaney.com Web: www.fundacionaraguaney.com www.festivalamal.eres