EXCLUSIVE: The Arab Movie Membership, a preferred month-to-month movie membership on Arab cinema primarily based in London, is increasing.
Actress and presenter Sarah Agha, the membership’s founder and curator, is launching The Arab Movie Membership Podcast, debuting Wednesday, Might 1, with an preliminary five-episode season. Episodes will drop on Podbean, Apple, and Spotify each second Wednesday after that.
The pod’s first season will probably be devoted to Palestinian cinema and spotlight 5 completely different Palestinian filmmakers by means of intimate interviews. Featured filmmakers will embody Darin J. Sallam, greatest recognized for her breakout characteristic Farha, which was Jordan’s Finest Worldwide Movie Oscar in 2022. Agha may also sit down with Bye Bye Tiberias director Lina Soualem. Scroll down to see the total season one lineup.
Agha, an actress, author, presenter, and movie curator is of Palestinian and Irish heritage. She is probably greatest recognized for presenting the acclaimed BBC doc The Holy Land And Us: Our Untold Tales with Rob Rinder about how the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians resulted within the founding of the state of Israel and altered their household’s histories without end. As a author, she has written articles and interviews for The New Arab, Center East Eye, Backstage Journal and GQ ME. Earlier than working in movie and TV, she learn Theology and Center Jap Research at Trinity Faculty Dublin. She data recurrently as a voiceover artist for The Guardian, Audible, BBC Radio 3 and 4.
Discussing the choice to launch the pod, organizers mentioned they felt compelled to “elevate Palestinian voices” because the violence within the Center East continues.
“Palestinians are sometimes dehumanized and demonized within the Western media or lowered to statistics in dying tolls. Palestinian cinema performs an vital position in what is called cultural resistance,” they mentioned, including the episode drops have been timed to commemorate the 1948 Nakba, the Palestinian time period for the mass displacement in the course of the warfare.
Launched nearly in the course of the COVID-19 lockdown, the Arab Movie Membership has grown to vital prominence across the UK movie scene, internet hosting in-person screenings and trade Q&A occasions at venues together with the Southbank Centre, Glasgow Movie Theatre, The Backyard Cinema and the Prince Charles in Leicester Sq.. Chosen movies included options and shorts from Algeria, Egypt, the Golan Heights, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria and Tunisia.
See the total first season of The Arab Movie Membership pod under.
1st Might – Episode 1 – Darin J. Sallam on her movie ‘Farha’
Darin J. Sallam wrote and directed the breakthrough award-winning characteristic Farha (2021).
Logline: “After persuading her father to proceed her training within the metropolis, a Palestinian woman’s dream is shattered by the harrowing developments of the Nakba.”
fifteenth Might – Episode 2 – Lina Soualem on her movie ‘Bye Bye Tiberius’
Lina Soualem directed Bye Bye Tiberias (2023) about her mom, Hollywood actress Hiam Abbas.
Logline: “Years after leaving her Palestinian village, Hiam returns dwelling on this intimate documentary about 4 generations of ladies and their shared legacy of separation.”
twenty ninth Might – Episode 3 – Ameen Nayfeh on his movie ‘200 Metres’
Ameen Nayfeh wrote and directed 200 Metres (2020) primarily based on his expertise rising up within the West Financial institution.
Logline: “The Israeli separation wall sits between Mustafa and his household. Denied entry on a technicality, Mustafa will cease at nothing to succeed in his injured son on the opposite facet.”
twelfth June – Episode 4 – Annemarie Jacir on her movie ‘Wajib’
Annemarie Jacir wrote and directed Wajib (2017) which stars real-life father and son Mohammad and Salih Bakri performing within the lead roles.
Logline: “A father and his estranged son should come collectively at hand ship his daughter’s marriage ceremony invites. Because the pair spend the day collectively in Nazareth, the tense relationship involves a head. “
twenty sixth June – Episode 5 – Farah Nabulsi on her movie ‘The Instructor’
Farah Nabulsi wrote and directed her debut characteristic The Instructor (2023) following the success of her Bafta Award-winning brief ‘The Current’.
Logline: “A Palestinian faculty instructor finds himself caught between his dangerous dedication to political resistance and the surprising probability of a brand new relationship.”
