SERIES
December 12-14 at the Trylon
In 1974, Srour was the first female Arab filmmaker to have a film chosen for the Cannes Film Festival. Her films depict and imagine resistance with an inherent danger and immediacy as she weaves between fiction and documentary—shot, at times, in the midst of conflict. Largely unavailable in the States until recently. Promotional support provided by Mizna.
(1984, 90m, Arabic w/English subtitles) dir Heiny Srour w/Nabila Zeitouni, Samar Samy, Rafik Ali Ahmad. Leila (Zeitouni), an expat in London, finds herself traveling into the past and experiencing the lives of other Arab women. Mixing narrative, documentary, and experimental montage, Leila insists that history and cinema are political. FRI 7:00 SAT 8:30 SUN 3:00
Screenings: December 12 7:00, December 14 3:00, December 13 8:30
(1974, 62m, Arabic w/English subtitles) dir Heiny Srour. In the late 1960s, the region of Dhofar was under bombardment by the British Royal Air Force. Srour and her team crossed five hundred miles of desert and mountains (by foot) to reach the conflict zone and capture this rare record of a largely feminist anti-colonial uprising.…
Screenings: December 12 9:00, December 13 7:00, December 14 5:00