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Beur is Beautiful: A retrospective of Maghrebi-French Cinema
A groundbreaking program of Maghrebi-French cinema: an emerging trend reflecting upon the legacy of colonialism and the challenges of integration and assimilation of immigrant populations in France. Curated by Carrie Tarr. This exciting program premiered at ArteEast’s 2007 CinemaEast Film Festival. The term "beur" is a French slang derivation of the word Arabe, and refers to the French-born children of North African (Maghrebi) immigrants who, for the most part, grew up in the concrete wastelands of the low-income housing projects in the working-class suburbs (banlieues) of France.
February 5 - December 31, 2008
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Summer 2006, Palestine
September 15, 2007 - May 31, 2008
Palestine, 2006, 35 min, 2006, Beta SP PAL/NTSC and DVD PAL/NTSC
In Arabic with English subtitles
Both established as well as new Palestinian filmmakers came together in a project that reflects the “mood” of the summer of 2006 when Israel carried out military assaults in Gaza and Lebanon. In three minutes or less, filmmakers were asked to tell their stories in a single shot. Despite the fact that Palestinians have been dispersed across the globe, with the majority of them unable to return to their homeland, “Summer 2006, Palestine”, initiated by the Palestinian Film Collective, was limited to those filmmakers who live in Palestine.
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Touring Program - We are Here
Video Shorts from Lebanon
September 1, 2007 - April 30, 2008
In the past few years digital video technology has been credited with quietly generating a revolution in film production. During the summer 2006 Israeli assault on Lebanon, it allowed filmmakers, artists and activists to record what they were witnessing and experiencing and offered a forum to create work immediately related to the war. The compulsion to construct an audio-visual document of the violence came not only from a desire for an alternative to broadcast media; but also from an eagerness to compile an archive of the assault, because both the 17-year civil war and the numerous Israeli military campaigns since the 1960’s have scant records.
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Touring Program - A Retrospective: 30 Years of Syrian Cinema
CinemaEast is touring its successful film series that premiered at the Lincoln Center in NYC at universities and organzations around the world.
May 1, 2006 - 31, 2007
North America’s first ever showcase of feature, documentary and short films by Syria's most celebrated filmmakers and emerging independent young talent debuted at Lincoln Center in New York City in Spring 2006 and is now available on DVD format.
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Women's Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran
Curated by James Neil, Parallax Media UK & Suzy Gillett, Institut
Français UK
A rare opportunity to watch and actively engage with some of the most exciting and innovative films to emerge from the region in the past four decades, especially those by female directors. – James Neil, curator
Women's Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran offers diverse representations by women filmmakers, documentarists and artists about a broad spectrum of concerns of various forms and contents. Through these different formats, the program highlights the often-invisible threads that exist between fiction, documentary, and how they all share and integrate specific concerns and discourses about contemporary reality in the Middle East and its diasporas. The selection criteria for this program seeks to recognize works that are deserving of being part of the international cinematic canon--films such as The Silences of the Palace, and La Nouba des Femmes du Mont-Chenoua. What makes many of these works outstanding is a particular 'female gaze'; a strong sense of empathy or engagement is brought by directors to their subjects, whilst remaining at a critical juncture and not necessarily romanticizing the 'woman's voice' as so many curated programs have in the past.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE PROGRAM
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