Beyond Spring - Arab Film Series
Thursday 19.12.2019 7:30 PM | Saal
Admission: €5
Organizer: Werkstatt der Kulturen/ EUME (Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe) / Mayadin al-Tahrir e.V.
Curation: Viola Shafik
Co-Operation
Apropos Tunisia
The story of Hedi Jouini, the „Tunisian Frank Sinatra“
Film screening and discussion
The Man Behind the Microphone
by Claire Belhassine
documentary
2017
Tunisia, UK, Lebanon
86 min.
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This is a personal quest into the story of a Tunisian musicians’ family undertaken by Hedi Jouini granddaughter Claire Belhassine. Only as an adult she discovers that her grandfather was one of the most popular musical stars in recent Tunisian history. Up to date his songs continue to inspire revolutionaries and conservatives alike, striking at the heart of the post-colonial social and political upheaval of Tunisia and its continuing search for identity. But as her story unravels, Belhassine discovers some unsettling and painful aspects along with an old secret that Jouini had successfully kept from his family and the nation that worshipped him alike. |
Beyond Spring
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.
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THE CURATOR
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).
The facilities of the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN are accessible to wheelchair users.
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