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CINECITY: Resistance - New Female Ways of Seeing from North Africa
This triple bill brings together three remarkable feminist films from North Africa: one long film from Morocco, the contemporary sci-fi adventure Animalia by Sofia Alaoui, and two short pieces from Algeria, If They Could Have by Sarah El-Hamed and Between Midnight And Six In The Morning by Nadja Makhlouf which explore the role of women in the Algerian War of Liberation 1954 – 62.
Open-ended and intriguing, all three films ask us to reflect upon women’s resistance in the face of colonial and post-colonialism oppression.
If They Could Have (15)
Sarah El-Hamed, France, Algeria, UK, 2024, 5m.
Between Midnight And Six In The Morning (15)
Nadja Makhlouf, Algeria, UK, 2024, 4m
Animalia (18)
Sofia Alaoui, France, Morocco, Qatar, 2023, 90m.
The films by Nadja Makhlouf and Sarah El-Hamed have been specially commissioned by the Sussex University Resistance Network Cine-City Festival to mark the seventieth anniversary of the Algerian War of Liberation.
The event will include a roundtable discussion with Sarah El-Hamed and Nadja Makhlouf and a DJ playing North African music in the ACCA bar.
Curated by Martin Evans, Professor of Modern History, University of Sussex.
Dates & Times
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Monday 11 November, 20246:30pm
Tickets
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Adults£6.00
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Concessions£3.00