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Revolt Against the Sun

Shasha Movies presents a subversive programme of contemporary Iraqi video art, produced between 2017-2022.

1st January – 28th February

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  • I Dream

    Zahraa Ghandour, Tarek Turkey

    An experimental short film that expresses a subjective experience during quarantine and was made as an attempt to locate ourselves living in ongoing semi-isolated life. It is a variety of dreamy images, that help reflect our thoughts and slow-past lifestyle. Images that link our isolated reality to the seemingly distant worlds we…
    4
    Iraq
    2020
  • Memory Box – On Demand

    Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige

    Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: notebooks, tapes, and photos Maia sent to her best friend from 1980’s Beirut. Maia refuses to open the box or confront its memories, but Alex secretly begins diving into it.…
    102’
    2021
  • October Uprising Project

    Susu Attar (in collaboration with Wesam Nassar, Amir Hazim, Haider Husseini, & Tabarek Mansour)

    8
    Iraq
    2021
  • The River That Was in the South

    Sadik Kwaish Alfraji

    Whilst the iron jaws of dictatorship eat up the marshlands, the plight of the people is brought to the fore as the soul-stirring film draws to a close.
    5
    2018
  • Copilot – On Demand

    Anne Zohra Berrached

    When sharp science student Asli meets charismatic Saeed in the mid 90’s, it’s love at first sight. The lovers marry, and Asli swears to be true to Saeed and never betray his secrets. Their future looks bright, but as the twenty-first century dawns, Saeed makes a decision that…
    118’
    2021
  • Visions of Basra

    Noor Gatih

    Iraq
    2021
  • Purple Sea – On Demand

    Amel Alzakout & Khaled Abdulwahed

    “I see everything,” she says, as if it was a curse. Brilliant sunshine, clear blue skies. The sea is calm, framed by a piece of railing. Buzzing voices. A peaceful moment if it weren’t for the fact that the sea is standing upright, vertical, like a waterfall. A…
    67'
    2020
  • Queen Lear – On Demand

    Pelin Esmer

    In the early 2000s, a handful of peasant women from the mountains of southern Turkey formed a theater group, which later became the subject of the documentary, The Play. The women acted out their own life stories in the village, and the play changed their lives. Now, they…

    84'
    2019
  • Like Salt – On Demand

    Darine Hotait

    While boxing and jazz rely on improvisation, they both have a deep sense of resilience. Hala, an Arab American female boxer in New York City, and Kendrick, an African American jazz musician, improvise their way through a passive aggressive America. She's Miles Davis in boxing gloves and he's Muhammad…

    22
    2018
  • See Without Being Seen

    Sama Alshaibi

    See Without Being Seen contextualizes Orientalist photography in the Middle East…
    12
    Iraq
    2022
  • Musical Manifest

    Adel Abidin

    When I immigrated to Finland, I started facing a deep shock regarding the differences between the two cultures. Finding myself on the border between the two helped my practice but distracting for my selfdom, affecting my decisions and creating a fertile ground for confusion and turmoil. When the world slowed…
    9
    Iraq
    2022
  • Echolocation

    Nadia Shihab

    Echolocation is a film of voices distant and nearby: the rain in Oakland, my grandmother's home in Baghdad, my aunts' voices in What's App, my daughter learning to count to 10, my brother playing the darbuka, the cicadas in Texas, the walls of my studio. As fragments resonate and accumulate,…
    8
    Iraq
    2021
  • Anthem

    Adel Abidin

    The lack of archival resources in Iraq had opened windows for different interpretations. Places and happenings had turned anecdotal. Context had turned them into traditions with new content. Facts have abandoned their authenticity and their existence in time by turning into myths. Since the founding of the modern state of…
    3
    Iraq
    2019
  • 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

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