Arab Film Series - Beyond Spring
Wednesday 18.01.2017 7:30 PM | Saal
Admission: €5
Organizer: Werkstatt der Kulturen/ Mayadin al Tahrir e.V. / EUME
Curation: Viola Shafik
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ArabIC FILM SERIES
In 2010, the Tunisian protest movement triggered a wave of upheavals across the Middle East and North Africa that became known as “the Arab Spring”. However, there is also a history to tell beyond “Spring”.
Since 2014, the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN has been highlighting films from several Arab countries as part of the Arab Film Series, with this specific selection of films curated by Viola Shafik.
It aims at exploring some major social and political issues in the region and further our understanding of various dynamics in regards to class, gender and politics in general, as well as explore topics concerning confessionalism, social justice and the question of Palestine.
Die Aufführungen werden begleitet von Diskussionen und von Expert*innen des EUME (Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe), einem Forschungsprogramm am Forum Transregionale Studien.
Programm am 18. Januar 2018
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Kuratorin
Viola Shafik, Dr. phil., ist freischaffende Filmemacherin, Kuratorin und Filmwissenschaftlerin. Sie veröffentlichte u.a. Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity, AUC-Press, Cairo, 1998 und Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class and Nation, AUC-Press, 2007. Sie lehrte an der American University in Cairo sowie an der Universität Zürich. Sie ist im Auswahlkommitte des Rawi Screenwriters’ Lab und des World Cinema Funds der Berlinale. Sie führte Regie bei mehreren Dokumentarfilmen, u.a. Ali im Paradies/My Name is not Ali (2011) und Arij - Scent of Revolution (2014). Zur Zeit lehrt sie an der Humboldt Universität, Berlin sowie der Ludwig Maximilian Universität, München.
Viola Shafik, Dr. phil., ist freischaffende Filmemacherin, Kuratorin und Filmwissenschaftlerin. Sie veröffentlichte u.a. Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity, AUC-Press, Cairo, 1998 und Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class and Nation, AUC-Press, 2007. Sie lehrte an der American University in Cairo sowie an der Universität Zürich. Sie ist im Auswahlkommitte des Rawi Screenwriters’ Lab und des World Cinema Funds der Berlinale. Sie führte Regie bei mehreren Dokumentarfilmen, u.a. Ali im Paradies/My Name is not Ali (2011) und Arij - Scent of Revolution (2014). Zur Zeit lehrt sie an der Humboldt Universität, Berlin sowie der Ludwig Maximilian Universität, München.
Eine Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit EUME (Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe).
Beyond Spring - Arab FILM SERIES
In 2010, the Tunisian protest movement triggered a wave of upheavals across the Middle East and North Africa that became known as “the Arab Spring”. However, there is also a history to tell beyond “Spring”.
Since 2014, the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN has been highlighting films from several Arab countries as part of the Arab Film Series, with this specific selection of films curated by Viola Shafik. It aims at exploring some major social and political issues in the region and further our understanding of various dynamics in regards to class, gender and politics in general, as well as explore topics concerning confessionalism, social justice and the question of Palestine.
The screenings will be accompanied by moderated panels with academic experts from the Berlin-based research program Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME) at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin.
THE CURATOR
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Viola Shafik, PhD is a filmmaker, curator and film scholar. She has authored among others Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity, AUC-Press, Cairo, 1998 and Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class and Nation, AUC-Press, 2007. She has lectured at the American University in Cairo and Zürich University and is in the selection committee of the Rawi Screenwriters Lab and the Berlinale World Cinema Fund. She has directed several documentaries, most notably Ali im Paradies/My Name is not Ali (2011) and Arij - Scent of Revolution (2014). She currently teaches at Humboldt University Berlin, as well as at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. |
An event in cooperation with Mayadin al Tahrir e.V. and EUME (Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe).
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