2012

AU
1990
Short film
19’

On an isolated, surreal Australian homestead, a middleaged Aboriginal woman nurses her dying white mother. The adopted daughter’s attentive gestures […]

Illusions

Julie Dash

US
1983
Spielfilm
34’

The time is 1942, a year after Pearl Harbor; the place is National Studios, a fictitious Hollywood motion picture studio. […]

The Body Beautyful

Ngozi Onwurah

GB
1991
Short film
23’

This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on […]

MX / US
2001
Documentary
19’

At seven months old, filmmaker Natalia Almada lost her two-year-old sister, Ana Lynn, in a drowning accident at her childhood […]

Voices from Exile

Irit Neidhardt, Maysoon Pachachi

Workshop Discussion with Maysoon Pachachi The political upheavals and emergencies of recent decades have led to the exile and being […]

Perforated Memory

Sandra Madi

JO
2008
Documentary
62’

»The real events that form the collective memory have been deformed. How can the political project eliminate the collective memory […]

What’s Going On?

Jocelyne Saab

LB / FR
2010
Experimental
78’

»I’m not asking the viewer to understand everything, but just to dream for a while.« – Jocelyne Saab Beirut, 2010. […]

The Turtle’s Rage

Pary El-Qalqili

DE
2011
Documentary
70’

»When I was 12 years old, my father left us to return to Palestine. His dream to build a house […]

TN / FR
1994
Spielfilm
127’

»From the perspective of a child I have tried to present the world of oriental princes and the injustices emanating […]

Salata Baladi

Nadia Kamel

EG / CH / FR
2007
Documentary
105’

»If we had not confronted the taboos of our present, my mother’s stories would have been reduced to self-indulgence and […]

Marock

Laïla Marrakchi

FR
2005
Spielfilm
96’

Casablanca at the end of the 1990s: a clique of young people, all with rich parents, live through wild times, […]

Forbidden

Amal Ramsis

EG / ES
2011
Documentary
67’

»When I began filming Forbidden, we still lived in a dictatorship in which almost all political rights and activities were […]