FR 28.02
3 films by Hala Alabdallah
16:00, FREE

16:00 Farouk, assiégé comme moi (2016, 92 min)
Through a portrait of Farouk Mardam-Bey, a Syrian publisher living and working in France since the 1970s, Hala Alabdalla's film tells the story of the struggle of men and women who, from France, have chosen to fight not with violence but with culture, to make the intelligence, humanism and freedom of the Syrian people triumph.

17:45 Hey, n’oublie pas le cumin (2008, 66 min)
This unruly and poetic film shows a group of female silhouettes parade in front of the hospital bed of Jamil Hatmal, who is putting the finishing touches to his novel Narcissism in an ultimate attempt to outsmart death and madness.

19:00 Omar Amiralay - La Douleur, le Temps, le Silence (2021, 109 min)
After forty years of political commitment and documentary filmmaking in a Syria wounded by the tyrannical regime, Omar Amiralay interrupts his work to look after his dying mother. She died in 2010, Omar leaves us one year later – five weeks before the Syrian revolution.

SA 01.03
masterclass by Hala Alabdallah,
moderated by Rand Abou-Fakher
17:00, in French, get your ticket

17:00 masterclass by Hala, moderated by Rand
19:00 break
20:00 screening 'I am the one who carries flowers to her grave' by Hala Alabdallah

more about the masterclass
The previous associated artist, Rand Abou-Fakher, invites filmmaker Hala Alabdalla for a conversation and screening. Conceived as a masterclass, this conversation offers an opportunity to delve into Hala’s body of work while also creating a space for resonance and dialogue between two generations of Syrian filmmakers.

more about the screening
Filmmaker Hala Alabdallah was banned from Syria 25 years ago. Her acclaimed debut documentary is an intensely personal study of her native country Syria in which she reflects not only on the sense of loss which so many of her compatriots are coping with, but also on their enormous resilience. The documentary integrates interviews with three of her friends who have long ago left Syria for France with images of her husband Youssef Abdelke, a painter who is reunited with his mother after a long time.