Deniz Pasha
, 2023
, 17 min
In this desktop-film, the Sudanese Turkish artist, Deniz Pasha, together with her friends Jazmine Mussington and Mario Lamar, looks at the Western orientalist-style depictions of the Ottoman harem and visually analyzes the black people’s representations, who are mostly left in shadow, covered, and unidentifiable. On the computer screen page of Photoshop, as an act to…
Ardıl Yalınkılıç
, 2018
, 8 min
The Gaze is a video by the artist Ardıl Yalınkılıç based on a series of interviews he conducted in The Hague during his exchange study. He invited six white fellow art students from different European countries to participate in the interview and he asked them to answer his questions pretending to be himself. The only things…
Julia Bacha
, 2017
, 76 min
Synopsis: When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a young woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time. Naila and…
, 2021
, 94 min
Synopsis: When a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona, and a speech therapist in Texas are told they must choose between their jobs and their political beliefs, they launch legal battles that expose an attack on freedom of speech across 36 states in America. Boycott traces the impact of state legislation designed to…
, 2009
, 80 min
Synopsis: Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites Palestinian political factions and invites Israeli supporters to join an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that quickly moves to the…
, 2012
, 25 min
Synopsis: My Neighbourhood follows Palestinian teenager Mohammed El Kurd as half of his home in East Jerusalem is taken over by Jewish settlers. When Israeli activists arrive to protest the take over, Mohammed comes of age in the face of unrelenting tension with his neighbours and unexpected cooperation with Israeli allies in his backyard. Shortly after their displacement,…
Ateyyat El Abnoudy
, 1983
, 31 min
Synopsis: Permissible Dreams traces the life of Oum Said, a woman farmer living in a small town on the Suez Canal. Although she does not read or write, the woman in question is her family’s economist, doctor, and the planner of its future, as she dreams ‘to the limits of her possibilities’ where home is the premise…
, 1995
, 16 min
Synopsis: A portrait of an ambitious peasant female artist.
, 24 min
Synopsis: In persistent close shots, the film follows the challenges facing girls in a country where one in four marries before the age of sixteen and one in five ever attends school. An affecting view of how Egyptian women and girls still struggle for their autonomy through such basic human rights as education and for the…
Maged Nader
, 2020
, 11 min
Synopsis: A man returns to his neighborhood looking for his brother. He faces the destruction of his old area which has become a featureless wasteland. He keeps looking for his brother’s traces, but all he finds is the urban legend about his disappearance.
