Contemporary Arab and Maghrebi Cinema: New Directions and Aesthetics

This film season aims to explore filmic representations of some of the many transformations that have taken place in the Arab and Maghrebi world over recent decades.

The selected films address issues and themes of great concern to the peoples of the Maghreb and Middle East, such as the making and remaking of individual and national identities; migration and exile; the Arab/Israeli conflict; and the position of the contemporary Arab city in a global context.

This season is organised by Dr. Joseph McGonagle and Dr. Dalia Mostafa from The University of Manchester and funded by CASAW (Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World). For more information visit www.casaw.ac.uk

Previously in this season

Wedding in Galilee

A lyrical tale of a Palestinian wedding that takes place in an occupied Palestinian village, and the contemporary tensions, contradictions and hostilities that surround it.

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Zindeeq

The story of Palestinian filmmaker ‘M’ who returns to Ramallah to film witness accounts of the 1948 Nakba. Over a single day and night, M’s…

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Inland

While working in the South West of Algeria, topographer Malek decides to help a young woman reach Morocco so that she can enter Spain. A…

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A Perfect Day

In Beirut, after the Lebanese civil war, Claudia and her son Malek are haunted by Malek’s father’s wartime disappearance. Their debate on whether to declare…

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Harragas

Renowned Algerian director Allouache addresses a phenomenon that has shocked many in Algeria: the growing numbers of people (known as ‘harragas’) who risk their lives…

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Eye of the Sun

During the Pharaonic era, Ein Shams was the capital of Egypt and a sacred location marked by the visit of Jesus. Now one of Cairo’s…

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