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'K'
by Shoja Azari (U.S.A./Morocco, 2002, 85 min, 35 mm)
In this elegant adaptation of three Kafka stories, Azari takes the characters from the a monotonous sales bureau to a palatial mansion that transmutes into a tomblike fort, from desert sun to the shabby imperialism of a colonial outpost. Shot in stark black and white, the film evokes the unease and bewilderment that dogs Kafka's K, exploring humanity’s deepest anxieties and fears in facing the modern world.
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(Posthumous)
Ghassan Salhab (Lebanon; 2007, 28 min.)
Sun. May 9, 5:30 p.m.
Thu. May 13, 4:00 p.m.
Screens with 1958. Total run time is 106 minutes.
During and after the 2006 war with Israel, Beirut thoroughfares are a cloud of media noise and martial worship, with the steady scrape of the bulldozer claw. Locals, posed like Bresson “models” in screen tests, silently return and confound the gaze, or give their backs. Salhab layers sound and image like chips of a cairn, a fragile yet lapidary marker on the road to the Lebanese interior.
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12 Angry Lebanese(2009) Lebanon
For nearly a year and a half, 45 prison inmates in Lebanon’s largest prison found themselves working together to present their version of Reginald Rose’s play 12 Angry Men, which they rename 12 Angry Lebanese. A theatre director who specializes in working with disadvantaged and traumatized people, Zeina Daccache is a powerhouse. Revealing the tremendous dignity and despair of the prisoners, her inspired theatre project changes their lives—offering a transformative experience for the audience that encourages the staff of the prison to reconsider the potential of their inmates. The drama therapy sessions, the interviews with the inmates, and the interaction with both Daccache and the audience convey an extraordinary message of trust, forgiveness, and change, as Daccache exposes the complex layers of each actor’s personality as well as the remarkable evolution they experience as a group.
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1958(2009)
by Ghassan Salhab
Lebanon, 2009, 66 min. Color and B&W, DigiBeta, Arabic, English, French, with subtitles in English.
Lebanon
1958 marks two events: first, the birth of the film maker in Senegal; second, the beginning, in the Lebanon, his parents’ native country, of a serious internal conflict that will result in the long series of civil wars. An intertwining then, of a private history with national histories that mix themes covering exile, colonisation, Lebanese politics as much as linguistic diversity. Yet a figure gradually begins to stand out as the centre of this maelstrom: the mother of Ghassan Salhab.
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3,494 Houses and One Fence
by Mireille Astore and Fabian Astore. Lebanon/Australia, 2006, 6 min, BetaSP, U.S. Premiere
Shot in the “accessible outback” town of Broken Hill, Australia, and in Ain-Haj-Elias, Lebanon, 3,494 Houses and One Fence is an authoritative and compelling assertion of the power of place—and of distance, as the banality of suburban facades is set to the sounds of Beirut’s many wars.
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3494 Houses + 1 Fence
By Mireille Astore and Fabian Astore. Australia/Lebanon, 2006, 6 mins, Beta SP and DVD
Screening formats available: Beta SP and DVD
Screening fees: $50
The street scape of Broken Hill, "the accessible outback" country town of Australia, is seen from the viewing platform of a Lebanese reality. Houses, neat, some pretty, some with children playing in front collide with sounds remembered from so long ago, maybe from one of Beirut's many wars, maybe even from future wars.
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6/12(1968)
1968. Morocco. Directed by Ahmed Bouanani, Abdelmajid R’chich, Mohamed Abderrahman Tazi. 18 min.
Morocco
“We chose images in a city, moments: absence and the solitude of wet cobblestones at a dull party that has ended; suddenly a shade; suddenly a gesture, a footstep; the sea or silence; silence or the cry; waiting or dread; sleep or insomnia; a sign of light that surges; a heart caught between two digits; our faces in the storm; two white-hot figures carved on foreheads; eyes, bodies spinning round like magnets in the storm” (Ahmed Bouanani).
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Feature Films:
A Door to the Sky
By Farida Ben Lyazid. Morocco, 1989, 107 min, 35mm
Screening formats available: 35mm
Screening fees: $350
Nadia, a young Moroccan emigre, returns from Paris to Fez to visit her dying father. At his funeral, she is overcome by the voice of Karina chanting the Koran. A powerful friendship develops between the two women as they decide to turn the father's palace into a Muslim women's shelter. A Door to the Sky is a Sufi tale told in a metaphoric language. It is also the first North African film to address the social and economic changes as proposed by a spiritual Muslim woman on a quest to preserve her cultural and religious identity
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Shorts:
Boreas-North Wind (Poyraz)
By Belma Bas. Turkey, 2006, 13 min, DVD and Beta-NTSC
Screening formats available: Beta (NTSC) and DVD
Screening fees: $100
Living with elderly relatives in a remote old house in the mountains a child reticently observes the daily routine of rustic life and glimpses the mysteries of life and death.
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Chronicles of a Refugee
Directed by Perla Issa, Adam Shapiro and Aseel Mansour (USA, 2008, DigiBeta)
Co-sponsored by Alwan for the Arts and Adalah-NY
Chronicles of a Refugee is a 6-part documentary series looking at the global Palestinian refugee experience over the last 60 years. Filmed in over 15 countries, with more than 250 interviews of Palestinian refugees who have lived in over 25 countries, the series aims to provoke debate concerning strategy and asks: ‘What makes the most sense for a strategy to achieve Palestinian rights as part of a vibrant and viable Palestinian national movement?’
With special guest speakers at each screening
Click here to watch Trailer
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