Public Screening on May 30: "Alyam, Alyam"

For this month's public screening on May 30, we will be viewing Ahmed El Maanouni's ALYAM ALYAM (Morocco 1978, 87 min). This film will be discussed at the request of Ala Younis, artist and curator from Amman. She is currently in Berlin as a Goethe-Institut Fellow to participate in the Living Archive project. ALYAM ALYAM is famous Moroccan director Ahmed El Maanouni’s first film. In 1978 he was awarded the grand prize of the "Mannheim Film Festival". The film portrays a peasant family and their daily lives, a topic that is discussed here for the first time in Moroccan film.