A small Egyptian police band arrives in Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts centre but, due to bureaucratic confusion and bad luck, the musicians are stranded in a tiny Israeli town in the heart of the desert.

There, helped by a shared love of music, the Egyptians and Israelis discover many important things about each other and about themselves.

This understated and offbeat film recently won eight Israeli Academy Awards including Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director and is Israel's official entry for the 2008 Oscars.

Directed by: Eran Kolirin
86min · M · In Arabic, Hebrew and English with subtitles

Best Screenplay, Fipresci Critics Prize and Jury Coup de Coeur, Cannes Film Festival 2007 ⋅ Audience Award, Most Popular Film, Karlovy Vary, Munich and Sarajevo Film Festivals 2007 ⋅ Best Film, Actor and Actress, Jerusalem Film Festival 2007

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Reviews for The Band's Visit
• Band on the run :: Western Suburbs Weekly :: 12 Feb 2008
• The Band's Visit On Dislocation :: X-Press Magazine :: 14 Feb 2008
• Sex on a schtick in the desert :: The West Australian :: 18 Feb 2008
• Strike out the band :: The West Australian :: 22 Feb 2008
• Dry humour amid tension in desert :: North Coast Times Community :: 26 Feb 2008
• A delight from a desert dry :: Wanneroo Times :: 26 Feb 2008

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  Short film screening first (Somerville only)
  Done Dirt Cheap . Australia 
  6min . G
  
  Amos enlists two larrikin miners into his ingenious way to make money from an unsuspecting tourist, who walks into the plot and gets less than what he bargained for.
  
  WRITER/DIRECTOR Debbie Carmody PRODUCER Kath Shelper