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  • NIUN

    Ahaad Alamoudi

    NIUN presents two extraterrestrial protagonists (NIUN 1 and NIUN 2) as they navigate a futuristic utopia. The work is inspired by the seminal science fiction text, Awaj bin Anfaq by Zakariya al-Qazwini, about an alien who visits Earth to study the oddities of human behavior. Together and in…
    7
    Saudi Arabia
    2018
  • Playing the Taar

    Roya Sadat

    Ay Nabaat is a 17 year-old girl from the Turkmen ethnic minority in Afghanistan. She has been weaving carpets at home since her childhood. Her entire life is interlocked to carpet strings and colors. For many years, her father has been engaging himself in…
    36
    Afghanistan
    2008
  • Leviathan – Episode 1: Ben

    Shezad Dawood

    Shezad Dawood's Leviathan Cycle is a film series considering the key issue of our day: how do we understand the intersection of climate change, migration and mental health in our shared ecosystems?  The films blend fiction and fact carefully researched in collaboration…
    13
    2017
  • The Disquiet

    Ali Cherri

    Earth-shattering events are relatively par for the course in Lebanon, with war, political upheaval and a number of social revolts. While the Lebanese focus on surface level events that could rock the nation, few realize that below the ground we walk on, an actual shattering of the earth…
    20
    Lebanon
    2013
  • A Passage

    Rouzbeh Akhbari, Felix Kalmenson

    This is a film that tackles the political economy and social ecology of border infrastructures in Southern Armenia. Focusing on two significant events that illustrate the dominant political shifts in the region, it examines how processes of rapid militarization and neo-liberalization have restructured these borders.  These…
    17
    Armenia, Iran
    2019
  • This Haunting Memory That Is Not My Own

    Panos Aprahamian

    Through semi-fictional storytelling, the film shines a light on how economic growth and environmental decay are interlinked and entrenched in social and ecological injustice. It addresses forms of extraction and violence inflicted on human/nonhuman bodies and the ecosystem along the shorelines of Beirut, the city’s port, and around…
    20
    Lebanon
    2021
  • View from Above

    Hiwa K

    In the last four decades, many people have come from Iraq as refugees. In 1991, a division was created between northern Iraq (Kurdistan) and the rest of Iraq. The UN considers Kurdistan a safe zone. As a refugee you have to come from the unsafe zone, or at…
    11
    Kurdistan - Iraq
    2017
  • Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue)

    Hiwa K

    As a member of the immigrant generation that illegally journeyed from Iraqi Kurdistan to Europe on foot, Hiwa K’s ‘Mirror’ simulates an experience of walking through foreign territory. Using an “object-sculpture” made of stick and motorbike mirrors which he balances on his nose, Hiwa K finds his way.…
    18
    Kurdistan - Iraq
    2017
  • Sun Rave

    Roy Samaha

    Speculating on the impact of a 1989 solar storm, the film mimics the unpredictable release of energy flares, layering personal histories with major geopolitical events as it shifts from his family’s Beirut home to Bucharest, Berlin, and further afield. Samaha explores childhood anecdotes heard around an…
    11
    Lebanon
    2018

Decolonise Our Planet.

History of people and their practices is seen through a visual narrative, connecting images of the past to a composition of its traces in the present. This living memory brings into conversation and questions the sustainable and unsustainable practices that fill our daily lives, whilst peering towards a collective future.

1st December 2021 – 31st January 2022

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