SCREENING + DEBATE
BRASÍLIA
MARCH
03/31 (Friday)
8 pm – Purple Sea (dir. Amel Alzakout e Khaled Abdulwahed, Alemanha, 2020, 67’)
Follow by discussion with Lila Foster (UnB)
Lila Foster is a researcher and curator. Since 2017, she has been part of the Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes (Tiradentes Film Festival) programming team. She is currently conducting postdoctoral research with the PPGCOM (Postgraduate Program in Communication) of the Universidade de Brasília on the JB/Mesbla Amateur Film Festival (1965-1970).
APRIL
04/09 (Sunday)
7:30 pm – Nezouh (dir. Soudade Kaadan, Reino Unido/Síria/França/Catar, 2022, 103’)
Follow by discussion with: to be confirmed
Soudade Kaadan is a Syrian director, born in France in 1979, based in London. She studied theater criticism in the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Syria and filmmaking at Saint Joseph University (IESAV) Lebanon. Her first feature fiction film The Day I Lost my Shadow was awarded the Lion of The Future for best debut at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, and the jury prize for directing at the LA Film Festival, and screened at various festivals including TIFF, BFI London, Busan and IFFR. Her short film Aziza won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2019.
04/14 (Friday)
7:30 pm – كابتن یا عاش | Ash Ya Captain | Lift Like a Girl (dir. Mayye Zayed, Egito/Alemanha/Dinamarca, 2020, 92’)
Follow by discussion with: to be confirmed
Letícia Bispo is a Master’s student in the Pragmatics of Image research line, at PPGCOM (Postgraduate Program in Communication) from UFMG. She holds a BA in udiovisual from UnB. She is a critic, researcher, and curator in the cinema and audiovisual area. She is one of the founders and editors of Verberenas, a website that since 2015 brings together dialogues and critiques of cinema and audiovisual from the perspective of women filmmakers; she is also one of the curators of Verberenas Sessions, held in 2021. She was a curator in the first and second editions of Rastro – documentary film festival, and was part of the international selection committee of the 22nd FestCurtasBH. She is part of the technical audiovisual centre at the School of Communication at UnB.
RIO DE JANEIRO
MARCH
03/24 (Friday)
6 pm – SHORT FILMS 05 – Life on the CAPS Trilogy (dir. Meriem Bennani, Estados Unidos/Marrocos, 2022, 76’)
Follow by discussion with Mariah Rafaela Silva (UFF)
Mariah Rafaela Silva holds a PhD in Communication from the Universidade Federal Fluminense. She holds a BA in Art History from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and a master’s degree in History, Theory and Criticism of Culture from the Universidade do Estado do Amazonas. She was a professor at the Department of History and Theory of Art at UFRJ and an exchange student at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where she studied gender, migration, and globalization. She was a collaborator at the Center for Studies on Security and Citizenship (Cesec) and a volunteer at the NGO Conexão G for LGBT Citizenship in favelas. She is a social activist, researcher, and human rights defender with a focus on the territorial rights of people living in favelas, trans people (transgender and travestis, a specific Brazilian trans identity), Black and radicalized peoples, and for digital rights, digital democratization and security.
APRIL
04/06 (Thursday)
5 pm – Aanaf Hob | Miguel’s War (dir. Eliane Raheb, Líbano/Espanha/ Alemanha, 2021, 127’)
Follow by discussion with Eliane Raheb
Eliane Raheb is a Lebanese director who has accomplished several award-winning short films and documentaries. Her main achievements as a director include the feature documentary titles Miguel’s War, Those Who remain and Sleepless Nights. Miguel’s War has premiered at the Berlinale Panorama in 2021 and won the Teddy for the best feature film, the Grand Jury award in NewFEST, the documentary award in the LGBT film festival in Paris and the Best documentary at Mizna film festival. Those who Remain (2017) has participated in more than 70 film festivals and won 7 awards, of which l’Étoile de la Scam [Civil Society of Multimedia Authors, France]. Sleepless Nights has ranked 5th in the Sight and Sound magazine’s classification for the best documentaries of 2013 and is currently being shown in Netflix.
04/07 (Friday)
6 pm – NEZOUH (dir. Soudade Kaadan, Reino Unido/Síria/França/Catar, 2022, 103’)
Follow by discussion with Mirian Alves (NEOM/UFF)
Mirian Alves de Souza holds a PhD in Anthropology (PPGA/UFF) , is a professor at the Department of Anthropology at the UFF and a researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies (NEOM/UFF) and Refugee Outreach & Research Network (ROR-n).
SÃO PAULO
APRIL
04/22 (Saturday)
6 pm – SHORT FILMS 06 – We Began by Measuring Distance (Egito, 2009, 19’), A Field Guide To The Ferns (Estados Unidos, 2015, 10’) Home Movies Gaza (França/Territórios Palestinos, 2013, 24’), by Basma Alsharif
Follow by discussion with Mariana Queen
Mariana Queen Nwabasili is a journalist and a researcher, PhD student and holder of a Master’s degree in Audiovisual Media and Processes at the Escola de Comunicação e Artes (Universidade de São Paulo), where she also completed her BA in Journalism. She holds a Master’s degree in Film Curatorship from Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (Spain), and was awarded a scholarship by Projeto Paradise. Curator of short films for the 2023 Tiradentes Film Festival and Cabíria Audiovisual Festival 2022. She was a selector of Brazilian films for the 29th edition of the São Paulo International Short Film Festival, 2018, and for the 24th edition of FestCurtasBH, in 2022, in which she idealized the parallel exhibition “Decolonial films?”. Writes essays and critical analyzes on theater and cinema, and has participated in the 10th edition of the Critics Academy at the Locarno Film Festival, in Switzerland. She is interested in exploring the interrelationships between cinema, communication, history and social sciences, exploring authorship and cinematographic representations and receptions related to race, gender, class, and (de)coloniality in both national and global cinema.
MAY
05/05 (Friday)
6 pm – Foragers [Forrageadores] (dir. Jumana Manna, Palestina, 2022, 64’)
Follow by discussion with Jumana Manna
Jumana Manna is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores how power is articulated, focusing on the body, land and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. Through sculpture, filmmaking, and occasional writing, Manna deals with the paradoxes of preservation practices, particularly within the fields of archaeology, agriculture and law. Her practice considers the tension between the modernist traditions of categorisation and conservation and the unruly potential of ruination as an integral part of life and its regeneration. Jumana was raised in Jerusalem and lives in Berlin.
05/07 (Sunday)
4 pm – La zerda et les chants de l’oubli (dir. Assia Djebar, Argélia, 1982, 59’)
Follow by discussion with Samira Osman (UNIFESP)
Samira Osman (UNIFESP) ia a professor of Asian History and coordinator of LEOA (Laboratory of Oriental and Asian Studies) at UNIFESP. Researches topics related to the Middle East, Arab and Islamic World, and its Diasporas.
