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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Ali Cherri

Ali CHERRI (1976, Lebanon) graduated in Graphic Design from the American University in Beirut. He moved to the Netherlands to complete his studies with a Master’s degree in Performing Arts at DasArts in Amsterdam. His work varies from video to multimedia installation and performances, shown in solo and group exhibitions. Cherri’s installation Of Men and Gods and Mud (2022) received a Silver Lion at the 59th Venice Biennale. He is a recipient of Harvard University’s Robert E. Fulton Fellowship, the Rockefeller Foundation Award and the Abraaj Group Art Prize.

Filmography

(selection) Un cercle autour du soleil (2005, short), Untitled (2006, short), Slippage (2007, short), You (2008, short), Dreams in Three Chapters (2013, short), Pipe Dreams (2012, instal), Gazing at the Catastrophe (2012, short), L’Intranquille/The Disquiet (2013, short), Le Creuseur/The Digger (2015, short), The Dam (2022), The Watchman (2023, short)

More Info: Ali Cherri

Ali Cherri at IFFR

  • The Watchman

    The Watchman deconstructs the myth of duty, laying bare the absurdity of the war rhetoric. 

    • Tiger Short Competition

  • Gazing at the Catastrophe

    Without looking for a moral or adopting a moralising position towards images of suffering and atrocities or questioning whether we truly have become h

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • Ashes

    Lebanese story of mourning, intimacy and family bonds, motivated by the death of the protagonist’s father.

    • short films

  • The Digger

    In the desert, Sultan Zeib Khan makes his rounds of the ruins of a Neolithic necropolis. Amid the tombs, the vastness of the desert is palpable.

    • Voices
    • Voices Short

  • Pipe Dreams

    A memorable phone call between the Syrian cosmonaut Muhammed Faris (part of a Russian space mission) and the late president Hafez al-Assad.

    • Signals: Power Cut