Post-Revolution, Arab Cinema is Producing Dystopic Narratives
Viola Shafik has seen several post-thawra Arab features that convey a bleak and dystopian vision of the present.
Viola Shafik has seen several post-thawra Arab features that convey a bleak and dystopian vision of the present.
Film critic and historian Viola Shafik pillories cinematographic voyeurism.
Viola Shafik saw the Montpellier CINEMED screening of a new feature in which Haifa Palestinians catch a strange virus.
Viola Shafik profiles Jihan El-Tahiri and Myriam El Haïk, two Arab artists in the 2022 Berlin Biennale.
Film historian Viola Shafik interviews Syrian filmmaker Ziad Kalthoum about his peripatetic life in Syria and beyond.
Filmmaker and historian Viola Shafik muses on German art, colonialism and restitution in Berlin.
Viola Shafik profiles Berlin-based Palestinian photographer Mohamed Badarne.