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Nazra: City Of Borders
Eyes Wide Open Cinema presents the second screening of our season Nazra: Queer Lives in Arab Cinema.
Wednesday 10 October. Fabrica Gallery, Brighton.
Doors 7.00pm. Start 7.30pm.
CITY OF BORDERS
Director: Yun Suh | USA | 2009 | 66 minutes
In Arabic, Hebrew, and English with English subtitles.
Shushan is a gay bar situated in the historic city of Jerusalem. In this fly-on-the-wall documentary, we follow a selection of the bars patrons: Saar, a Jewish Israeli, is the first openly gay member of Jerusalem's City Council. Boody, a Palestinian man from Ramallah, regularly jumps the Israel-West Bank border to perform as a drag queen in Jerusalem. Samira, a Palestinian Israeli, and Ravit, a Jewish Israeli, got into a relationship after working in the same hospital. Adam is a Jewish settler living in the West Bank in a relationship with Amit, a Palestinian from the West Bank.
Yuns documentary film paints a nuanced portrait of her subjects as they negotiate the complex borders of sexuality, race, nationality, and religion amidst the tumult of the Israeli occupation and Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
+ CHIC POINT: FASHION FOR ISRAELI CHECKPOINTS (SHORT)
Director: Sharif Waked | Palestine | 2003 | 7 minutes
No dialogue.
Palestinians crossing Israeli checkpoints are regularly forced to undergo humiliating levels of screening, including being made to show their abdomens to prove they are not wearing an explosive device. Chic Point reimagines the site of the checkpoint as a fashion runway, in which models showcase garments that ensure the abdomen is always on show. The result is a powerful piece of political filmmaking that asks us to consider the problematic erotics of these real-world encounters.
+ Q&A discussion with Samar Ziadat.
Samar is a co-founder at dardishi.com. She is also a committee member at Transmission Gallery and the Scottish Queer International Film Festival. She graduated with an MSc in Art History from the University of Edinburghs College of Art in 2016.
We have a limited amount of tickets available for free for those who cannot afford the regular ticket price. Please email tickets@eyeswideopencinema.co.uk to reserve these.
This event has been made possible by BFI's Film Audience Network, with the support of The National Lottery.
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LocationFabrica Gallery (View)
40 Duke Street
Brighton BN1 1AG
United Kingdom
Categories
| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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