Beyond Spring - Arab Film Series
Thursday 17.10.2019 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
Unknown Chapters of Palestinian Diaspora
Screening and discussion in the presence of the Egyptian director Amal Ramsis
You Come From Far Away
by Amal Ramsis
documentary
2018
Egypt, Lebanon, Qatar, Spain
84 min.
Spanish/Russian/Arabic OV Engl. ST
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The role of Arabs in the Spanish Civil War has only been associated with the Moroccan troops who were brought to Spain by Franco in order to fight against the Republicans. This image has been predominant throughout the last several decades, overshadowing the existence of the many other leftist Arabs who were among the international volunteers who defended democracy. The story of Najati Sidki, a Palestinian journalist who came to Spain as one such volunteer, reveals this little-known historical fact. The war proved to be a decisive turning point for Sidki’s family as well, particularly for his eldest daughter Dulia, who as a child ended up in Russia and had to grow up separated from her family. And there were other big events to come affecting Sidki’s family life:, World War II, the Nakba follwing the foundation of Israel and the Lebanese Civil War. |
Guest
Amal Ramsis born in Cairo, Egypt, has studied cinema in “Séptima Aras” in Madrid. In 2008 she founded Cairo International Women’s Film Festival and the “Between Women Filmmakers” Caravan, the first annual and itinerant women’s film festival in Arab World. Since 2007 she is leading the international women’s workshop series known as “Correspondence between Women”. In 2018 she started to organize the Creative Documentary Workshops in Egypt. Her films “Only Dreams” (2005), “Forbidden” (2011) “The Trace of the Butterfly” (2015), and “You Come From Far Away” have got several international awards and been screened in many festivals.
Arabische Filmreihe Beyond Spring
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Im Jahr 2010 haben die ersten Proteste in Tunesien eine Welle von Aufständen im Nahen Osten und in Nordafrika ausgelöst, die als der arabische Frühling bekannt wurden. Die Geschichte der Region geht aber über besagten Frühling hinaus.
Mit einer speziellen Auswahl an Dokumentar- und Spielfilmen, kuratiert von Viola Shafik stellt diese Filmreihe seit 2014 in der WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN Werke aus verschiedenen arabischen Ländern vor.
Ihr Ziel ist es, die sozialen und politischen Verhältnisse in der Region in Augenschein zu nehmen und unser Verständnis von den verschiedenen Aspekten - sei es Klassenverhältnisse, Geschlecht oder Politik - zu verbessern und sich mit Fragen rund um Konfessionalismus, soziale Gerechtigkeit, Geschlechterfragen sowie die Palästina-Frage auseinandersetzen.
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.
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.
Eine Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit EUME (Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe).
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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.
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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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