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…
, 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,…
September 2023
Larissa Sansour, Marwa Benhalim, Alia Yunis
Screening Online: Sept 27-Oct 1RSVP: arabfilmseries.org Free with RSVP / $5 suggested donationAvailable Worldwide THERE IS SALT AND BREAD BETWEEN US presents a selection of films by Larissa Sansour, Youmna Chlala, Alia Yunis, Andrea Nones-Kobiakov, and Marwa Benhalim. The films are centered around the theme of food, which is employed as a vehicle to explore political and cultural narratives. Trespass…
Alia Yunis
, 2019
, 85 min
The Golden Harvest is a 6,000-year old love story in which the filmmaker tries to understand the profound, often troubled, relationship between olive trees and the people of Mediterranean, including Palestinian father.
Pegah Pasalar, Mounira Al Solh, Basma al-Sharif, Suneil Sanzgiri
EVERYWHERE WAS THE SAMEFeaturing Pegah Pasalar, Mounira Al Solh, Basma al-Sharif, Suneil Sanzgiri, and Mirene Arsanios In-person Sep 12, 2023 screening:at e-flux Screening Room at 7 pm ETScreening will be followed by a conversation with filmmakers Pegah Pasalar and Suneil Sanzgiri moderated by writer Mirene Arsanios.Address: 172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205Get Tickets here Online Screening:…
Basma al-Sharif
, 2007
, 11 min
In an empty room, a slideshow projection of abandoned places plays alongside the narrative of two girls who find themselves on the shores of a pre-apocalyptic paradise. Told through subtitle text that weaves fact and fiction together, the story of a massacre unfolds. When the image and text malfunction and the story is no longer…
Jumana Emil Abboud
, 9.04 min
In the original Palestinian folktale, a man must find a remedy to cure his two wives of their/his infertility. He seeks the advice of thesheikh (village chief), who tells him that the answer lies with the village ghoul (evil spirit/shapeshifter). The ghoul in turn points him in the direction of the ghouleh (female ghoul). The ghouleh agrees to help him because he secretly suckled…
April 2023
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…
Michael Hambouz
ArteEast is pleased to present an interview with artist Michael Hambouz as part of our Artist Spotlight series. Michael Hambouz (b. Niles, Michigan, 1977) is a multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, multi-instrumentalist musician, and independent curator based in Brooklyn, NY. Solo/two-person exhibitions include Wassaic Project (NY), Future Fairs (NYC), Brooklyn Academy of Music (NYC), chashama (NYC), Kayrock (NYC),…
