Event Details
May 26, 2022
6:00 pm EDT
Virtual
Screenings:
Sandjak//سنجق
Country: Lebanon
Director: Chantal Partamian
Length: 8 mins
Synopsis: Navigating three types of images, shot in three different periods, the film explores the poetics of haunting through compositions of images that create an entanglement between the past and the present. An intimate but detached voice, a little stoic even, speaking of countless losses. The repeated affirmation of belonging to a place that is no longer.
Galb’Echaouf//قلب الشوف
Country: Morocco
Director: Abdessamad El Montassir
Length: 18 mins
Synopsis: While investigating on an event that profoundly changed the landscape of the Occidental Sahara, the filmmaker was faced with a silent entourage and parents who are haunted by this harsh socio-political history. He consequently focuses his attention on the landscape and plants in order to find elements that could answer and help to reconstruct this amnesia.
The Way Back//طريق العودة
Country: Libya
Director: Malek Mohamed Elmaghrebi
Length: 18 mins
Synopsis: Tawergha is a village in the middle of northern Libya, during the events of the Libyan revolution on February 17, 2011, all those living in Tawergha were expelled until the announcement of reconciliation between the conflicting parties after seven years, but it seems that only declaring reconciliation is not enough until the population returns to settle again in Tawergha, and through the heroes of the story, Khairy, who decided to live in Tawergha again, and Salem, who is still not convinced to return.
Off-Season Tourists
Country: Tunisia
Director: Maher Hasnaoui
Length: 30 mins
Synopsis: In 2010, after the state crisis in Ivory Coast, Hervé decides to leave his country. Once he arrives in Tunisia, he must face a reality he never imagined and dreaming of a better life becomes his daily challenge.
Warsha//ورشة
Country: Lebanon
Director: Dania Bdeir
Length: 16 mins
Synopsis: A Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of the most dangerous cranes, where he is able to find his freedom.