Women’s Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran: 20 Feb - 2 March 2008
Women’s Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran is an exciting festival of film by women and their representation in cinema from Morocco in the west to Iran in the east, with features, documentaries, shorts and artists’ films. Rare classics, premieres, previews and a special acoustic set by Souad Massi.
It will be the first festival of its kind to offer audiences an opportunity to appreciate a vital aspect of international cinema, and to actively engage with an exciting and innovative selection of films.
Screenings range from the groundbreaking short, The House is Black (Iran) by visionary poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad, to the recent Caramel (Lebanon), Persepolis (France-Iran), and Cut and Paste (Egypt) featuring actress Hanan Turk. Premieres of the powerful Hidden Faces (Turkey) and the taboo breaking Samira’s Garden (Morocco) will be presented. Classics such as The Nouba (Algeria) by auteur Assia Djebar will be screened and Moufida Tlatli will present her evocative The Silences of the Palace (Tunisia) followed by a master class at the London Film School. A special concert and talk with singer Souad Massi and director Yamina Benguigui will take place and a party will feature the best and latest sounds from Oran to Beirut via Istanbul and Cairo with special guest DJs. A selection of artists’ films by Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat, Zineb Sedira and others will be screened and a Film Symposium will be held. London based writer Hanan Al-Shaykh will hold a talk and an Arab classical concert will end the festival - A Journey from Andalusia to Modern Times. We invite you to participate in what promises to be an exciting and stimulating cultural experience.
