August 2022
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
ArteEast is excited to announce the U.S premiere of Memory Box by Joana Hadjithomas And Khalil Joreige at Film Forum starting August 5! All 7:40 pm shows from August 5 – 11 will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers recorded especially for this event. The Q&A is co-presented by ArteEast, and moderated by ArteEast Film Programs Curator Ginou Choueiri. SPECIAL DISCOUNTED TICKETS FOR ARTEEAST AUDIENCES! USE THE PROMO CODE ARTEEAST AT CHECKOUT. For tickets…
July 2022
Marwa Arsanios, Ahmad Ghossein, Ghassan Halwani
This selection of films draws from ArteEast’s ArteArchive to explore the notion of absence–that which is erased, missing or forgotten–as a central theme in the works of Lebanese filmmakers Marwa Arsanios, Ahmad Ghossein, and Ghassan Halwani Both Marwa Arsanios and Ghassan Halwani use animation as a means to render that which is invisible visible, while Halwani also uses…
June 2022
Enas I. Al-Muthaffar, Nahed Awwad, Ayreen Anastas, Larissa Sansour, Annemarie
The Second Intifada heralded a particularly fresh, urgent and experimental approach to filmmaking, in tune with the uprisings to which they contributed. Working at a distance from both the main political organizations and, often, the aesthetic insistences of Global Northern art cinema funding, filmmakers took advantage of accessible technologies to forge new notions of freedom. The prolific…
April 2022
Yto Barrada, Malak Helmy, Lara Baladi, Marianne Fahmy, Maha Maamoun, Setareh Shahbazi
Monuments & Flowers Curated by Regine Basha Monuments & Flowers brings together a selection of seminal video work by women artists culled from the archives of ArteEast with the work of contemporary voices including Yto Barrada, Lara Baladi, Marianne Fahmy, Malak Helmy Maha Maamoun and Setareh Shahbazi with Mirene Arsanios. How do we reflect upon…
#AFFC2022 April 7-22, 2022 https://affc.eventive.org/welcome The Arab American National Museum (AANM), the Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI), ArteEast, and Mizna proudly present the Arab Film Fest Collab (AFFC) from April 7-17, 2022. The AFFC is a collectively produced virtual film festival, screening independent Arab cinema for audiences across the United States. With programs featuring films, panel discussions, and…
March 2022
Mohamed Soueid
Mohamed Soueid came of age in the Beirut of the early 1970s, when over forty movie theaters were operating in the Lebanese capital, offering lovers of cinema something possibly unique in terms of geo-artistic variety. Not only could Lebanese moviegoers watch the latest European and American films, both arthouse and commercial, but thanks to very…
February 2022
Assia Djebar
South West Asia and North Africa, there are historical records of women’s cinema since the 1920s. However, a lack of state funding for archival projects, as well as factors such as conflict and war, mean that we often watch these films through reading about them. The films themselves are inaccessible, or more often damaged or…
November 2021
Akram Zaatari, Emily Jacir, Mona Benyamin
Ib’atli Gawab / Signed, Sealed, Delivered: On longing and political resistance through epistolary forms in four essay-films. Inspired by two love songs—Sabah Fakhri’s Ib’atli Gawab (Arabic for “send an answer my way”) and Stevie Wonder’s Signed, Sealed, Delivered—this program explores the affective and political potential of letter-writing and other epistolary forms through four films by Mona Benyamin, Emily…
October 2021
Moumen Smihi, Mohammad Malas
RADICAL MODERNISMS: RETRACING ARAB AND NORTH AFRICAN FILM HISTORIES is a two-part program curated by Peter Limbrick, Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz and author of Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi. This program addresses aesthetic and cultural experiments that emerged in Arab and North African cinema from the 1960s, experiments…
Mostafa Derkaoui, Ahmed Bouanani
