Neo Nahda and Background
Fri 26.04.
19:00
Cinema
Arsenal 1
Director
May Ziadé
Lebanon, UK / 2023
12 min.
/ DCP
/ Original version
Original language
English
When a young Arab woman (Eman Alali) in London finds a photograph of women cross-dressing in 1920s Cairo she starts a feverish journey that leads her to uncover lost histories and her own identity.
Director
Khaled Abdulwahed
Germany / 2023
64 min.
/ DCP
/ Original version with English subtitles
Original language
Arab, German
An intimate phone call between father and son. Khaled Abdulwahed reconstructs the story of his father, who lived as a student in the GDR in the 1950s, drawing parallels to his own migration to Germany, through which he escaped the civil war in Syria. Temporal and geographical distance blur as Abdulwahed artfully merges images of his father with present-day footage. Accompanied by the voices of the protagonists, the film explores concepts of identity and memory within two lives from then and now, between Syria and (East) Germany. The film premiered at the IDFA Festival and was awarded the Grand Prix of the International Competition of the FID Marseille.
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