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  • 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
  • She Was Not alone

    Hussein al-Asadi

    A documentary set in Iraq’s marshlands, Fatima lives unmarried and alone in her swamp,  keeping buffalo, chickens, a kitten and other animals. She describes her lonely and often hard life, but she would never move to the city, as she would perish there like a fish out of…
    9
    Iraq
    2019
  • 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
  • Komşu Komşu! Huu! (Hey Neighbour)

    Bingol Elmas

    A monster called urban transformation has been occurring in Turkey for the last few years. Haunting the neighbourhoods, this monster destroys whatever is left of the history, erects glass towers everywhere, and swallows the few trees left. While this monster is at work, the old and the new,…
    54
    Turkey
    2014
  • 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
  • Jezzine Water

    Zeina Aboul Hosn

    In May 2017, the Lebanese southern city of Jezzine hosted 6 contemporary artists, who researched and produced work on the theme of WATER. This film tells the story of the residency and its participants, while also offering a glimpse into the lives of the local community and the…
    30
    Lebanon
    2017
  • 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

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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