Feature film, Syria 2010, 91 min, directed by: Mohamad Abdul Aziz, original Arabic version with English subtitles
Shortly before her planned immigration to Italy, Syrian Jew Hala learns that her long-lost love, Nabil, is still alive. She returns to the ancient city of Damascus and from there goes on a poetic and sometimes absurd journey through Syria in search of the love of her life. On her way, she discovers not only her own past, but also the past and the beauty of her country.
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W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)
Feature film Damascus With Love, directed by: Mohamad Abdul Aziz, Syria 2010, 91 min, original Arabic version with English subtitles
The tragicomic road movie was completed shortly before the outbreak of the Syrian civil war and is a plea for a multiconfessional, multicultural Syria.
As a prelude Viola Shafik, filmmaker, curator, and film expert will hold a talk entitled Film, Confessionalism, and Nostalgia.
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Film and Reading Series: Between Marrakesh and Mashhad: Jews in Islamic Countries (9)
Between Marrakesh and Mashhad: Jews in Islamic Countries
This film and reading series, hosted by the Academy program’s Jewish-Islamic Forum from July 2016 to September 2017, explored the past and present of Jewish lives in different countries of North Africa and the Middle East.
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Las ultimas palavras
14 September 2017
Documentary, Turkish/Ladino with English subtitles -
Yousef Abad
Video art by the Israeli-Iranian artist Elham Rokni; Persian/Hebrew with English and Hebrew subtitles (audio recording of the talk available)
6 Jul 2017 -
My Father’s Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
11 May 2017
Reading and discussion in English with the author Ariel Sabar
11 May 2017 -
Iraq N’ Roll
27 April 2017
Documentary, Israel 2011, 54 min,
Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles -
Damascus With Love
9 March 2017
Feature film, Syria 2010, 91 min, original Arabic version with English subtitles -
The Jews and the Longest Kiss in History
14 December 2016
Documentary, Great Britain 2011, 60 min, English original version -
Salata baladi – An Egyptian Salad
3 November 2016
Documentary, Egypt 2008, 105 min, Arabic with English subtitles -
Villa Jasmin
28 September 2016
France 2008, 87 min, French/Arabic original soundtrack with English subtitles -
El Gusto
14 July 2016
Documentary, Algeria, France, Ireland, 2012, 88 min, French/Arabic original soundtrack with English subtitles
Between Marrakesh and Mashhad
Jews in Islamic Countries
Film and Reading Series
2016/2017
Judaism
Islam
Our Academy’s Jewish-Islamic Forum
Thematic focus of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy, 2012–20
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