April 2023
Nadia Shihab
Jaddoland & Talkback with filmmaker Nadia Shihab Online Screening: April 27-30 …
Marie-Rose Osta, Ghassan Salhab, Jumana Emil Abboud
This two-part program puts the weird, dark, supernatural, and fantastical at center stage. It looks at how these often–underexploredmodes of the strange narrate complex historical, geopolitical, and socio-cultural realities, while opening an imaginary world of speculation and possibility. Through the enchanted otherworldliness of the spirit world, expanding universes, understated dread, and the coming to life of…
Eliane Raheb
, 2021
, 128 min
MIGUEL’S WAR With Director Eliane Raheb in-person Screenings: Sunday, March 5 at 7 PM at Spectacle Theatre, followed Q&A with director Eliane Raheb moderated by Ginou Choueiri (Director of Film Programs, ArteEast) Wednesday March 9 at 7:30 PMSunday March 12 at 5 PMTuesday March 21 at 7:30 PM Address: Spectacle Theatre, 124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn,…
November 2022
Farnaz Jurabchian, Mohammadreza Jurabchian, Elham Hosseinzadeh, Saeed Dehghani, Shadi Harouni, Daniel Asadi Faezi
AT THE DISPOSAL OF HUMANITY Curated by Lila Nazemian, ArteEast Special Projects Curator Featuring works by Shadi Harouni, Daniel Asadi Faezi, Farnaz and Mohammadreza Jurabchian, Elham Hosseinzadeh, and Saeed Dehghani. AT THE DISPOSAL OF HUMANITY presents films made in the past two decades that share perspectives from communities on the periphery of contemporary Iranian society. With…
Elham Hosseinzadeh
, 2004
, 15 min
Synopsis: Set in the era of the American invasion of Iraq, an Iraqi man undertakes the dangerous journey of crossing the wetlands along the border into Iran with hopes of safely collecting a wedding dress for his bride to be from his extended community.
October 2022
Meyar Al Roumi, Hisham Bizri, Akram Zaatari, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
WHAT EXISTED YESTERDAY MIGHT DISAPPEAR TOMORROW Curated by Hind Mezaina The past haunts the present in this film program about photography and cinema, featuring four short films by Hisham Bizri, Akram Zaatari, Meyar Al Roumi, and Joana Hadjithomas/Khalil Joriege. These films delve into a distant or recent past and their consequences today on what was and what could…
Meyar Al Roumi
, 2001
, 29 min
Meyar Al Roumi returns to his native Damascus, eager to start making films, but he is censored. He draws inspiration from it to paint a portrait of the Syrian filmmakers most affected by censorship.
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
, 2003
, 43 min
It all began with an e-mail: On May 22, 2000 a print of our first feature film, Around the Pink House, disappeared in Yemen under strange circumstances. It was a historic day, the tenth anniversary of the country’s reunification of South and North. We make films in an area of the world that is barely interested…
September 2022
Jumana Manna, Christian Ghazi, Maher Abi Samra, Marwa Arsanios
SOCIAL STUDIES features works by Maher Abi Samra, Marwa Arsanios, Christian Ghazi & Jumana Manna. This program presents Christian Ghazi’s 1969 film A Hundred Faces for a Single Day in conversation with three films from Lebanon and Palestine made between 2008 and 2016. Ghazi’s avant-garde cinematic manifesto captures a society at the cusp between Lebanon’s so-called Golden Age and…
Maher Abi Samra
, 2016
, 67 min
Today, having a live-in maid in Lebanon is no longer a luxury nor a distinction of social class, but a common practice for upper and middle (mostly urban) classes since the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990. Domestic work is a real market in Lebanon, segmented according to the nationality and ethnicity of…
