Previously featured films and videos on aashra
Curated by Ashkal Alwan from and beyond its audiovisual archive:
Merely a Smell (Maher Abi Samra); The Sea Is a Stereo (Mounira Al Solh); Have You Ever Killed a Bear? or Becoming Jamila (Marwa Arsanios); Mondial 2010 (Roy Dib); Slippage (Ali Cherri); Ain Al Hamra (Red Is the Colour of my Eye) (Nesrine Khodr); I Had a Dream, Mom (Lina Majdalanie); 74: Reconstitution of a Struggle (Raed and Rania Rafei); Transparent Evil (Roy Samaha); Red Chewing-Gum (Akram Zaatari); Collapse (Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme); 12 (Mohamed Berro); My Father is Still a Communist (Ahmed Ghossein); A Journey (Lamia Joreige); La rose de personne (Ghassan Salhab); E Muet (Corine Shawi); Memories for a Private Eye (Rania Stephan); The Lamentations Series: The Ninth Night and Day (Jalal Toufic); Karaoke (Raed Yassin); Dear Victoria (Cynthia Zaven); Visit Iraq (Kamal Aljafari); Al Athiyya (Father of Pain) (Monira Al Qadiri); A Field Guide to the Ferns (Basma Alsharif); Pasolini Pa Palestine (Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri); Prêt à Porter- Imm Ali (Dima El Horr); The Lost Film (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige); O Sword... Take Me (Marwan Hamdan); Blessed Blessed Oblivion (Jumana Manna); Bent Jbeil (Wael Shawky); Tango of Yearning (Mohamed Soueid); Backyard (Khaled Abdulwahed); Our Terrible Country (Mohamed Ali Atassi); I Signed the Petition (Mahdi Fleifel); Street of Death (Karam Ghoussein); 2026 (Maha Maamoun); Before I Forget (Mariam Mekiwi); Aïnata (Alaa Mansour); Out on the Street (Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk); Ultima Ratio Δ Mountain of the Sun (Bahar Noorizadeh); At Last, a Tragedy (Maya Shurbaji); How Nancy Wished That Everything Was an April Fool's Joke (Rabih Mroué); The Troubled Bear and the Palace (Walid Siti); Mouthful (Shirin Sabahi); Tripoli Tide (Ahmed Ghoneimy); Now: End of Season (Ayman Nahle); Turtles Are Always Home (Rawane Nassif); Tonight's Programme (Ali Eyal); Behind the Sun (Monira Al Qadiri); 4 Waters - Deep Implicancy (Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva); Smuggling Lemons (Jumana Emile Abboud); From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf (CAMP); Party on the CAPS (Meriem Bennani); Sharwal (Sherko Abbas); All That Perishes at the Edge of Land (Hira Nabi); Student Bodies (Ho Rui An); Residue (Roy Samaha); We will return, my love (Hassan Kattan); Les Femmes bonnes (Corine Shawi); Zabad (Reem Ali); Chapters 1, 2 & 3 ‘from the impossibility of one page being like the other' (Ala Younis and Oraib Toukan); untitled part 1: everything and nothing (Jayce Salloum); Coffin of the Memory (Christian Ghazi); Ma Hataftu li Ghayriha (My Heart Beats Only for Her) (Mohamed Soueid); خطوة خطوة “Khutwa Khutwa"( Step by step 1977-1978) (Ossama Mohammed); The Ship of Exile (Jocelyn Saab); I Was Here (Zaina Erhaim); We Were Communists (Maher Abi Samra), Vulnerable (Reine Mitri); Nature Morte (Akram Zaatari)
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Maha Maamoun: Wolkenschatten (Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy); Imperfect Unless Performed in Blood (Rami El Sabbagh); Tarahi II (Haris Epaminonda); 31 Silent Encounters(Marianne Fahmy); and Fathy Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Maged Nader).
Rasha Salti: SHAYNE (Stephan Geene).
Nour Ouayda: Recollection (Kamal Aljafari); Pinochet's Women (Eduardo Menz); Threshold (Rania Stephan); Impression for a light and sound machine (Colectivo Los Ingrávidos); and Destination Finale (Philip Widmann).
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Marie-Nour Hechaime: Aphasia (Act 3) (Jelena Juresa); The Unease of Michel Samaha, an Intervention in a Court Case (Chaza Charafeddine and Roger Outa); This Lightness, I Have Lost it Forever (Haig Aivazian); View from Above (Hiwa K); Mesures Compensatoires (Hélène Delean, Kendra McLaughin, Dimitri Robert Rimsky); The Congo Tribunal - The Kolwezi Hearings (Milo Rau); A Crime Against Art (Hila Peleg); Forest Law (Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares); Orestes (Rodrigo Siqueira); and The Crown Against Mafavuke (Uriel Orlow).
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Hera Chan: Signal No. 8 (Simon Liu); Fall Down (Yim Sui Fong); Talk About Body (Tao Hui); Super Taboo (Su Hui-Yu); How History Was Wounded: An Exclusive Report on Taiwanese Media (Shu Lea Cheang and Jun-Jieh); No World (Fang Lu); The Fault Zone Vol.1 Y(our) Movement (Hao Jingban, Zoe Jiang, and Su Wei); Goodbye Hong Kong (Natalie Lo Lai Lai); Dragon’s Delusion: Departure (Kongkee); Dragon’s Delusion: Assassination (Kongkee); Child (Tang Kwok Hin).
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Mahmoud Khaled: Le Voyage Immobile (Ghassan Salhab); Fall into Ruin (William E. Jones); Ultima Ratio Δ Mountain of the Sun (Bahar Noorizadeh); Four Women of Egypt (Tahani Rached); Histerical Choir of the Frightened (Doa Aly); The Embassy (Chris Marker); Pornified Homes (Andrés Jaque); It was related to me (Mohammad Shawki Hassan); Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright (Akram Zaatari); Olga's Notes, All those Restless Bodies (Marwa Arsanios); Várzea (Estúdio Bijari and Ricardo Iazzetta).
Noor Abed: The Eyes that Never See (Dina Mimi); VIVA COCO! (Rocío Olivares Iriarte); We Fell into the Water Staying Dry (Shirin Sabahi); Antonia Valencia (Daniela Delgado Viteri); Expired (Islam Kamal); I feel nothing (Jumana Emil Abboud); Jewel (Hassan Khan); I, Soldier (Koken Ergun); keep in touch (nail cutting) (PENG Zuqiang); the night with a k (Felipe Steinberg).
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Aykan Safoğlu: Ask the Siren (Agnieszka Polska); A Turtle in Ten Seconds (Rojda Tuğrul); Workers’ Forum (Pilvi Takala); Farewells (Kadir Kayserilioğlu); Mojana (Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau & Nadia Granado); Infinite Nectar (Hera Büyüktaşçıyan); Opossum Resilience (Naomi Rincón Gallardo); Unearthing. In Conversation (Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński); Parabéns (Leylâ Gediz); Abolition Dream Mapping (Joey Twin & O. Naphtali).
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Rayya Badran: Kingdom (Cynthia Zaven); Diver (Monira Al Qadiri); The Sea is History (Louis Henderson); Studies on movement (Ghida Hachicho); Black Atlantis (Ayesha Hameed); Eté 91 (Karine Wehbé & Nadim Tabet); one sea, 10 seas (Nour Ouayda); Dreamland (Fadi Mansour); I Swam in the Sea Last Week (Nesrine Khodr); Off the coast (Mahmoud Safadi).
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Suzy Halajian: Pure Means (P. Staff); Fainting Spells (Sky Hopinka); Pilgrim (Cauleen Smith); Kink Retrograde (Bassem Saad); Imaginary Explosions, episode 2 (Caitlin Berrigan); Open Letter (Mariah Garnett); Medina Wasl: Connecting Town (Gelare Khosgozaran); La Cueva Negra (Beatriz Santiago Muñoz); Serpent Rain (Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva); and The Lake and The Lake (Sindhu Thirumalaisamy).
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Anais Farine: Secondary Currents (Peter Rose); Intervista (Finding the Words) (Anri Sala); La Clôture (Tariq Teguia); The Mute Tongue (Mounira Al Solh); The Story of Milk and Honey (Basma Al Sharif); Language Gulf in the Shouting Valley (Lawrence Abu Hamdan); And on a Different Note (Mohamed Shawky Hassan); Perpetual Recurrences (Reem Shilleh); Betalpha (Balbalah) (Mohamed A. Gawad); and A Thousand Faces (Urok Shirhan).
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Joud Al-Tamimi: Like An Event In A Dream Dreamt By Another (Rehearsal) (Firas Shehadeh); 3000 Years Among Microbes (PoHao Chi, HSURAE and Nancy Valladares); O Peixe (The fish) (Jonathas de Andrade); Strikes at Time (Raqs Media Collective); The Jump (Shuruq Harb); Platform Ghosts (Aarti Sunder); Heart of a Mountain (Parastoo Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko and Faraz Anoushahpour); Gazing...Unseeing (Mohamed Abdelkarim); Shokouk: A Cosmicomedy in Four Acts (Rouzbeh Akhbari and Felix Kalmenson (Pejvak)); and I remember the day I was born (Will be tomorrow) (Daniel Nivón).
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Mohammad Shawky Hassan: Nawal's Rituals (Sarah Francis); One in a Million (Nadine Khan); Idle By The Sea (Kinda Hassan); The Last Paradise (Les Derniers Paradis) (Sido Mohamed Lansari); Breakup in Nine Scenes (Leil Zahra Mortada); Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright (Akram Zaatari); The Sad Song of Touha (Ateyyat El Abnoudy); Beans (Sofía Velázquez Núñez); Leila and the Poet (da lalala ti-ra) (Jasmina Metwaly); and Polycephaly in D (Michael Robinson).
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Bahar Noorizadeh and Mohammadreza Amiri: When the kid was a kid (Anahita Ghazvinizadeh); Exteriors (Alireza Rasoulinejad); The Guards (Majid Fakhrian); +x+=+ (Niyaz Saghari); The Woman Behind the Window (Kourosh Shirali); موتوا قبل ان تموتوا (Nooshin Askari); I Also Retained a Vague Image of Happiness (Alborz Mahboobkhah); The Valley of the Wind (Samira Norouznasseri); Shouting at the Wind(Ata Mehrad and Siavash Jamali); and Strike (Ardavan Tarakameh).
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Aya Jamaleddine: Zoo (Bert Haanstra); Bath Time (Sharif Waked); Lamb (Nashashibi/Skaer); The Meadow (Jela Hasler); Red in Tooth (Dala Nasser); This Haunting Memory That Is Not My Own, (Panos Aprahamian); Atlas (Karthik Pandian); Dodge Ram (Wael Shawky); Now, if you look at the sky (Maissa Maatouk); and I’ve Known Rivers (South of Ajdabiya).