In Gazing at the Catastrophe, Ali Cherri reflects on how suffering has become increasingly integrated into his daily life. Witnessing of atrocities, Cherri argues, seems to be an inevitable condition of modernity. The knowledge of war gained by those who have not experienced it firsthand is informed exclusively by mediated images found on the internet or in the media.
Also in this combined programme
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At Five in the Afternoon
A long soliloquy exploring the different fears that are attached to a personal narrative of love and a continuous longing for intensity in life. -
Night Visitor: The Night of Counting the Years
Night Visitor is a compilation of YouTube clips of citizens breaking into Egyptian sites of power; it documents the recent Egyptian revolution. -
Time Laughs Back at You Like a Sunken Ship
Basim Magdy’s wide range of work extends from painting to filmmaking and photography. He blends fiction with reality by manipulating how images are re -
Crop
Crop was shot entirely on location at Al-Ahram, Egypt’s biggest state newspaper. The film reflects on the power of the image during the Egyptian Revol -
Untitled
Filmed in Algiers during the Arab Spring, it refers to the situation of women in the Arab world and questions the idea of revolution. Here,… -
Home Movies Gaza
After a ten-year absence, the Gaza Strip is one of the few places Alsharif feels she can call home, as well as one that grows…
Film details
- Countries of production
- France, Lebanon
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
