Marwa Arsanios
, 2008
, 5 min
Built by Polish architect Karol Schayer in 1957, the iconic Carlton Hotel was, in its time, a popular meeting place for gay men in Beirut. Between 1973 and 1993, the hotel was also the setting of three murders that might or might not have been related to sexual encounters. Among the victims of these (probably) passionate…
Inna Sahakyan
, 2022
, 78 min
A genocide survivor becomes a silent movie star: Aurora Mardiganian’s odyssey is close to unreal. After losing her family, escaping slavery, and enduring Hollywood greed, she journeys far to tell the world of the Armenian Genocide.
August 2024
Yousef Srouji, Noor Abed
Join Us at Brooklyn Commons Park with Three Promises by Yousef Srouji + our songs were ready for all wars to come by Noor Abed Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2024Location: Brooklyn Commons Park, 5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201Admission: FREE with RSVPTickets : FREE W/ RSVP Event Schedule: This program is presented in partnership with Rooftop Films. Three PromisesDirected by Yousef SroujiPalestine / US…
Noor Abed
our songs were ready for all wars to come is an experimental film that combines choreographed scenes with documented Palestinian folk tales. With images of women performing and communal rituals associated with mourning and death, the film asks: How can folklore become an emancipatory tool, reclaim history, and rewrite reality? The only narration is a song…
Djibril Diop Mambéty
, 1994
Marigo the musician dreams of his instrument – a congoma – which his landlady has impounded because of his chronic rent non-payments. Getting hold of a lottery ticket, he decides to put it in a safe place while awaiting the drawing: he glues it to the back of his door and covers it with the…
Kaveh Nabatian
, 2020
, 95 min
A young, impoverished Afro-Cuban couple dreams of wealth and success. A Canadian Iranian-Jewish divorcée yearns for personal freedom. These three lives converge in Sin La Habana, a film in which power, money, creativity, and destiny intertwine into a passionate love triangle, with a hint of magic, where cultures clash in a torrid dance. Leo, a…
July 2024
Kaveh Nabatian, Djibril Diop Mambéty
TRACES OF THE UNKNOWN brings together films addressing the human condition through stories and mysterious occurrences connected to spirits and gods derived from West African and Afro-caribbean diasporic religions. Featuring Djibril Diop Mambety’s Le Franc (1994) and Kaveh Nabatian’s Sin La Habana(2020) and Kite Zo A (2023), the filmmakers present narratives rooted in temporal realities and contexts, revealing cycles as well as…
, 56 min
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces foreign oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. “Kite Zo A” is a…
Sherko Abbas
, 12 min
Encounters on the Tigris follows a journey taken by artist and filmmaker Sherko Abbas in 2022, along the ancient Tigris river, in search of previously undocumented oral traditions and the ecological knowledge they hold. His journey begins in the Kurdish Zakho district of northern Iraq and ends in Al Faw, where the river meets the Persian…
, 19 min
