Dir: May Ziadé 
2023 | 12 mins | Eman Alali, Nadia Nadif

Running Order

• Introduction by PhD researcher Salma Yassine on lesbianism in Arab cinema and visual archives
• Lecture-Performance by filmmaker May Ziadé & Screening of Neo Nahda + Q&A

This event is generously funded by the South West Doctoral Training Partnership. All profits go to the filmmaker’s fee. 

Growing up in a context where family photos are hidden or confiscated, May has been obsessed with seeking images of her own life from a young age.

Continuing her mother’s legacy of retrieving these personal traces– through barter, subterfuge, and organised theft– together they built a trove of family albums.

One day, these images of childhood were no longer enough: other missing landscapes rose to the shore, along with a desire for new kinds of filiation.

In this lecture-performance, May will explore the visual archives of Arab family, feminism, and gender that played a role in her coming-of-age & in the making of the film Neo Nahda.

BBFC Rating TBC

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Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

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