Beyond Spring - Arab Film Series
Thursday 19.04.2018 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
Press FREEDOM IN EGYPT
FILM SCREENING: Tickling Giants - Humour as a weapon
Documentary by Sara Taksler, 2016, USA‚ 111 Min., Arabic/English; German version
courtesy of KINOREAL (neuzeitmedia), ro*co films and ZDF
An event in cooperation with Mayadin al-Tahrir e.V., Amnesty International, KINOREAL (neuzeitmedia), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) and the Europe in the Middle East-Middle East in Europe/Forum Transregionale Studien.
Beyond Spring - Arab FILM SERIES
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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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