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This film captures an intimate look into the daily life of the Bedouin, a way of living often misunderstood and mistakenly blended into a single image of Arab society. Through quiet observation and raw details, the film reveals a nomadic existence shaped by movement, tradition and deep connection to the land. Set apart from the rhythm of urban life, the Bedouin world unfolds as a living culture, preserving its own ...
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Mothers can do anything! (an artist tries to find the time to write a theoretical text). Exploring the intersections between gendered reproductive labor that keeps the cultural space in motion, and the reproductive labor of motherhood, A Labor Theory of Artistic Value, on Mothering and Art combines video projection, a delivered text, and a performative act of cultural maintenance.
About the Director
Mary Jirmanus Saba is a geographer and artist who works ...
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Through a fictionalized account of the bodiless voices hovering over commercially made presentation and historical strata, A Room with a Coconut View is an essayistic investigation of the politico-aesthetic relation through imagery surface and its netlike-technology apparatuses with a capitalistic-dictatorial-touristy regime as a backdrop. The work tells a story of Kanya, a tour guide and hotel rep automated voice, who leads her foreign automated-voice guest Alex through a deceptively aestheticized ...
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Mory has been living in France for several years. He has many friends and gets married to a European with whom he has three children. Yet in his Senegalese village, his fiancée, Coumba, is still waiting for him to return, and his relatives lose patience. After much hesitation, Mory returns home, but how will he tell them about his deception?
About the Director
Moussa Sène Absa (b. 1958, Senegal) is a celebrated ...
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In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parents have arranged her marriage to Nadir, a young Sudanese businessman living abroad. Nafisa’s grandmother Al-Sit, the powerful village matriarch, has her own plans for Nafisa’s future. But can Nafisa choose for herself?
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Suzannah Mirghani is a Sudanese-Russian writer, researcher, and graduate in media studies/museum studies. Al-Sit (2020) won 48 awards; Virtual Voice (2021) premiered ...
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In contemporary Ethiopia, a farming community’s exodus is disrupted when the patriarch of a prominent family disappears from his grave. Tessema, his son, begins to question the church’s divine explanation, forcing him to launch his own investigation.
About the Director
Beza Hailu Lemma is an Ethiopian filmmaker based in Addis Ababa. He has written, directed, and independently produced factual TV content and several short films, including Ballad of the Spirits (2017), Adey ...
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The shadows of Napoleon’s army fall upon a boat traveling through a mysterious cave named after her legend Marie Jeanne, a female soldier who fought in the Haitian Revolution. It is this battle inside her cave that will become the most successful slave revolution in history.
About the Director
Working between France, New York, and Haiti, Shirley Bruno draws from her Haitian heritage to create modern myths that merge ancestral memory with ...
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In 2016, Sara began documenting her visits to her family’s garden outside of Tehran. Here, she spends her days with her father, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, one of the most prolific contemporary Iranian novelists. A man who has lived through poverty, imprisonment, revolution, war, political repression, and censorship. Sara counters her parent’s version of events by narrating her own perspective as a child. Having been inspired throughout her life by Mahmoud, Sara ...
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Following an act of vandalism, the filmmaker’s father decides to install a surveillance camera to record the scenes unfolding in front of the house. Everyday family life, the neighbours going to work, and the children at school, An Unusual Summer captures fleeting moments of poetry whereas, in the background, the daily choreography of the Arab district—that no one some name the “ghetto”—of Ramla, in current Israeli territory, comes to the ...
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Arnold is a clever student who has won many academic awards. One day, he meets Bee who runs an underground business helping students cheat on their exams. Bee asks Arnold to join his cheating ring and offers him a lot of money. While Arnold considers working with Bee, many of his schoolmates, unhappy with their school’s disrespect of their freedom, organise a big protest.
About the Director
Sorayos Prapapan (b. 1986, Thailand) is ...
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