Purdah: Lifting the Veil on Middle East Cinema
Unveil the cloaked culture of the Middle East through rare films from around the region.
This screening program, which began its life in a suburban Melbourne backyard, invites you into a world of cinema that enchants and provokes - a cinematic investigation of a place everyone has heard of, but relatively few have really seen.
Curated by Mahmood Fazal
Full $15 Concession/ACMI Members $12
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Exiled for twenty-five years, Hala Alabdalla reflects on loss and human resilience as she explores her homeland of Syria.
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Climates observes the final act of a doomed relationship and the dissolution of his lonely characters.
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Ten filmmakers share ten stories experienced, heard or imagined in the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
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