This module brings together artist films journeying through land, water, toxicity, ritual, and resistance by filmmakers from the Middle East and North Africa – featuring works by Inas Halabi, Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah, Marianne Fahmy, and Noor Abed, Jumana Emil Abboud, Ruba Salameh, Shada Safadi and Manal Mahamid.
The films in this season trace the memories held in bodies and landscapes alike. Poetry threads through silence, storytelling becomes a spell, and conjured worlds arise, alive with resistance and defiance. Moving through shifting geographies and gliding between past and future, each film is a vessel slipping between the seen and the sensed.
These films weave together fictional and nonfictional elements rooted in history, exploring the profound connections to the land and delicate ecosystems scarred by conflict and disaster. They lead us through layered worlds where magic, memory, resistance and ritual coalesce.
Curated by Angelina Radaković (The Mosaic Rooms, London).
ARCHIVE:
Screening and Q&A with Noor Abed
Photo: Dejan Habicht
