Mohanad Yaqubi
, 2016
, 62 min
OFF FRAME (AKA Revolution Until Victory) is a meditation on the Palestinian people’s struggle to produce an image and self-representation on their own terms in the 1960s and 1970s, with the establishment of the Palestine Film Unit as part of the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization). Unearthing films stored in archives across the world after an…
Mustafa Abu Ali
, 1977
, 28 min
Palestine in the Eye chronicles the profound impact of Hani Jawharieh’s death for the PLO Film Unit. The film reflects on his life through interviews with family, colleagues, and his own cinematography, including the moment of his death while filming for the Unit in 1976. Although the film has later been attributed to Mustafa Abu Ali,…
Arab Loutfi
, 1991
, 90 min
“When I returned to Sidon in 1983, it had just been occupied. My sister destroyed several documents in a panic because the Zionist soldiers were coming, and I lost many of my mementoes. Friends were killed, and places I had loved were destroyed. I wanted to capture memories that could not be destroyed. The city…
Layaly Badr
, 1983
, 7 min
An animated short film for children. The film is based on the testimony of the girl Laila, who lives in a Palestinian refugee camp.
December 2023
Ateyyat El Abnoudy, Maged Nader, Mohamed Abdelkarim, Assem Hendawi
EGYPT: DREAM AND NIGHTMARES is a film program investigating questions of utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares in modern and contemporary Egypt following the army officers movement in 1952. This survey features works by filmmakers and artists from different generations who work across various film styles and narrative frameworks. The first three films – Permissible Dreams, Rawya, and Girls Still…
Ateyyat El Abnoudy
, 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.
Mohamed Abdelkarim
, 2021
, 8 min
Synopsis: Gazing… Unseeing speculatively envisions a dystopian future scenario of an Egyptian city post-disaster. Floods have taken over the West Sahara, setting off a string of corporate and governmental measures to control the rioting population. The film is based on an interview with an imagined fugitive. Through different positions, ideological turns, and questions on economic sovereignty, the…
