Directed by Soudade Kaadan, Syria, Lebanon, 2017, 67 min, documentary
Obscure tells the story of Ahmad, a Syrian child who does not want to remember that he is Syrian. Half traumatized, half trying to escape his reality, Ahmad prefers to be silent and asleep. In his silence and refusal to talk, he takes us in a journey where individual and collective Syrian memories collapse.
Directed by Roshdy Ahmed, Egypt, 2017, 15 min, animation short film
An Egyptian artist named Khaled decides to investigate a murder case of a child who is selling sweet potato in Tahrir square. During his investigation, he has visions and nightmares about the child until he reaches a dead end and an unexpected outcome.
Q&A with actor, director and producer Khaled Abol Naga
Directed by Ahmad Abdallah, Egypt, 2010, 120 min, docufiction
Upon his return to Alexandria to attend his mother’s funeral, Khaled becomes intrigued with a graffiti mural opposite his apartment. As he pursues this further, a larger underground arts scene slowly reveals itself, composed of musicians, filmmakers, and graffiti artists.
Q&A with actor, director and producer Khaled Abol Naga
Infiltrators is a visceral and haunting “road movie” that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians as they seek routes through, under, around, and over a matrix of walls and barriers erected by Israel in the West Bank/Jerusalem area.
Co-Sponsored by the International Studies Department
Directed by Kasim Abid, Europe and Iraq, 2018, 88 min, documentary Filmed over three decades, this ambitious project explores the lives of 7 Iraqi artists. Following them from graduation, to street art, to recognition, Abid showcases how interwoven art and personal lives are. The film focuses on the artists’ experiences with exile, creativity, memories, nostalgia, war, and survival.
Q&A with Dr. Isis Nusair, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies and International Studies, Denison University
Sponsored by The Foresman Fund, The Laura C. Harris Fund, Denison Library, the Department of Modern Languages, and the Department of Anthropology & Sociology
