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Museum of Modern Art, New York
November 1 - 25, 2012
This third and final installment of Mapping Subjectivity, organized around the theme “Transgressions,” explores how filmmakers and artists from the Arab world have dealt with shifting attitudes towards sexuality and gender roles in the Middle East, and presents personal interpretations of the very real social transformations presently taking place throughout the region.
As in the preceding editions, Mapping Subjectivity looks into the region’s largely unknown heritage of auteur, personal, and sometimes experimental film, highlighting kinships in sensibilities, approaches, and poetics across generations and countries. Works selected hail from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia, and include film and video, shorts and features, documentary and fiction that reflect a diversity and richness of voices and visual languages.
For details of the program click here.
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October 18 - 24, 2012
Bursting onto the scene with his first feature film, Summer Thefts, in 1988, Yousry Nasrallah reinvigorated Egyptian cinema with this devastating portrait of childhood friendship and its various permutations as the characters grow into adulthood during the turbulent social and cultural upheaval of the 1960s. Since then, Nasrallah’s work has been at the forefront of Egyptian cinema, exploring different genres and themes, never shying away from turning popular convention on its head.
The cast of vagabonds and outsiders populating his films—often living on the margins of a society that has long discounted them—transcend the usual depiction of Egyptians and provide a crucial window into the soul of a nation, one caught between the incurable nostalgia of the past and the fraught realities of the present. Nasrallah’s films, such as Mercedes (1993) and El-Madina (1999) are vibrant, satirical portraits of modern Egypt, unflinchingly examining societal decay and the pervading sense of unease and despair. This retrospective will take a keen look into Nasrallah’s influential body of work, how it negotiated the realities of post-Nasser Mubarak Egypt, and serve as a portend of the revolutionary events to come.
This program is presented by ArteEast, curated by Mohammad Shawky Hassan, Director of Film Programs at ArteEast, and made possible through the generous support of the New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Consulate General of Egypt in New York, Misr International Films, The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU, and several individual donors. A special thank you to Magda Saleh, Marianne Khoury and Yasmin Desouki for all their efforts for this program. |
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March 14 - 16, 2012
Recognized as the leading international documentary film festival in the Arabic-speaking world, DOX BOX has been held every March in Syria since 2008. As a statement against the regime and due to obvious disruption of activities on the ground, the festival organizers decided that the festival would not be held this year.
In its place, DOX BOX organizers ProAction Film are collaborating with ArteEast, a New York-based international arts organization dedicated to showcasing the arts of the MENA region on a global stage, and the Network of Arab Arthouse Screens (NAAS) to hold "DOX BOX Global Day", a program of Syrian documentary films that will be screened simultaneously in over twenty venues all over the world, from March 14th to 16th. |
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December 1 - 7, 2011
ArteEast and Cine Fértil are proud to present the first edition of LatinArab International Film Festival, which will be held in Buenos Aires from December 1st to December 7th, 2011.
LatinArab International Film Festival (LAIFF) will screen around forty films -20 fiction features, 6 fiction short films and 15 documentaries- of the best contemporary Arab filmography. LAIFF will count with the presence of renowned filmmakers, programmers and producers of the international scene and the organization of workshops and master classes addressed by acknowledged professionals of the industry, who will offer round tables and master classes.
For more details about the program: click here
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December 1 - 4, 2011
In our first collaboration, the Arab American National Museum and ArteEast are proud to present this year’s edition of the museum’s annual Arab Film Festival, which will be held in Michigan from December 1st to December 4th, 2011.
This year, the festival is presenting works of several filmmakers across Arab countries who have been actively and innovatively depicting, questioning and challenging the status quo over the last 6 years, in addition to a tribute to the Syrian filmmaker Omar Amiralay. |
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