Lily Ekimian Ragheb and Ahmed T. Ragheb
, 2021
, 11 min
An Egyptian living and working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, reflects on his new surroundings through a series of images and observations. The resulting montage is a poignant cinematic postcard that explores the contradictory nature of the immigrant experience: at once lonely, frightening, and exhilarating.
Reem Jubran
, 13 min
Zaid, a young Arab-American amateur drag queen, has to confront his conservative father and ailing grandfather about his identity.
Jenna Mahmoud-Bosco, Shayma Aziz
Filmmakers Jenna Bosco and Shayma Aziz in Conversation with Haytham Saqr
Nadia Shihab
, 8 min
Echolocation is a film of voices distant and nearby: the rain in Oakland, my grandmother’s home in Baghdad, my aunts’ voices in What’s App, my daughter learning to count to 10, my brother playing the darbuka, the cicadas in Texas, the walls of my studio. As fragments resonate and accumulate, spaces of loss are subsumed…
Yto Barrada
, 2011
, 15 min
Barrada digs into her family history and narrates 16 myths based on unreliable narrators and unverifiable stories, illustrated with strangers’ home movies found at flea markets and archival films from the last half-century in Morocco.
Firouzeh Khosrovani
, 2020
, 109 min
My mother married my father ́s photograph in Tehran. He was studying radiology in Switzerland, and for mother to come and live with him, marriage was obligatory. For my mother, with her religious background, living in Europe was a challenge. Sin was everywhere. My father came from a liberal and secular family. He was a…
Ahmed Kamal
, 2006
Ali Eyal, Sarah Munaf, Rijin Sahakian, Bassim Al Shaker, Sajjad Abbas
, 2022
, 54 min
From 2011-2015, Sada, an online and in-person ad hoc art school, was set up in Baghdad to support artists working through the aftermath of US-led invasion and occupation. Nearly a decade later, former artists of Sada came together again, reflecting on their creative and disparate lives since that time. Artists Sajjad Abbas, Bassim Al Shaker,…
Hiba Bassem
, 2005
, 34 min
Hiba Bassem is a film student from Kirkuk, who returns to Baghdad after the war in order to continue her film studies and films a video diary turned documentary of her experiences. She struggles to find housing, negotiates her feelings about the Iraqi elections, thinks about her relationships, and attempts to find a place in…
Kifayah Saleh
, 12 min
A group of Iraqi artist wanted to establish a cultural center in Baghdad, but plans were continually put off due to war. Finally, the artists decided to set up the Hiwar Centre in an old house in 1992, and it became a meeting place for artists and creatives to talk, leave each other messages, exhibit…
