Sunday 30 March, 16:30

Neocolonialism & its Dismantling: Mapping Lessons

Departing from the Syrian Revolution, before moving through other moments of revolution and experiments in autonomy from 1936 Spain, Angola, and Palestine, to the Paris Commune, the essay film Mapping Lessons reflects on attempts to dismantle the forces of neocolonialism, both internal and external, in the hopes of preparing for the next time.

Mapping Lessons

Philip Rizk

Egypt

60 min

Run Time

88 mins

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Sunday 30 March, 14:15

Maltings Main House

New Cinema Awards

The Moving Garden • The Birds Choose the Cards • Shuruuk

Tourism, war, and sunsets – films in this programme capture flows of life, the imprints we leave as we move and the many selves we encounter when we arrive.

The Moving Garden

Inês Lima

Portugal

18 min

The Birds Choose the Cards

Basim Magdy

Egypt Switzerland

24 min

Shuruuk

Amie Barouh

France Germany

36 min

Run Time

110 mins

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10 March 2024

Maltings Main House

Filmmaker in Focus: Basma al-Sharif

Renée’s Room • Capital • Monelle

The second of two screening programmes animating the work of Basma al-Sharif, BFMAF24 Filmmaker in Focus.

Born stateless and of Palestinian heritage, her work explores cyclical political histories and conflicts. In films and installations that move backward and forward in history, between place and non-place, she confronts the legacy of colonialism through satirical, immersive, and lyrical works.

Run Time

58 mins

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Friday 8 March, 14:00 • Sunday 10 March, 10:45

Maltings Henry Travers

Filmmaker in Focus: Basma al-Sharif

We Began By Measuring Distance • The Story of Milk and Honey • Home Movies Gaza • Wawa

The first of two screening programmes animating the work of Basma al-Sharif, BFMAF24 Filmmaker in Focus.

Run Time

89 mins

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22 September 2018

Maltings Main House

Sophia Al-Maria

Sophia Al-Maria: Temporal Vertigo

‘Temporal Vertigo’ is a wide-ranging selection of moving image work made by artist, writer and filmmaker Sophia Al-Maria over the last seven years. As schizophrenic in form as it is in chronology, the ten works shown move from essay film to music video, documentary, narrative, performance and all points in between. Included are the two part ‘Gulf Futurism’ essay film The Future Was Desert, which images the desert as a place outside of time; enigmatic science-fiction/documentary hybrid Mothership; and two music videos for Fatima Al Qadiri. This program represents the first retrospective screening of Al-Maria’s formally rigorous and beautifully cinematic work, providing a view of visual and thematic cross-contaminations between many different projects.

Q&A with filmmaker Sophia Al-Maria