Based on research and interviews with both Palestinian hunger strikers and asylum seekers, this absurdist yet realistic film stages a dialogue between the director in her mother tongue that centers on a single question: what do we know about hunger? This film is a...
Dwan Kaoukji is Lebanese and was born and raised in Kuwait. She is a social scientist by profession and recently began exploring her career as a filmmaker. Canary in a Coal Mine is her first short fictional film. Before this film, Dwan directed a short documentary for...
RedCut: How did you start actively in the field of cinema? I have been a screenwriter and writer for about 15 years. Writing for TV serials, arthouse features, for mainstream, for commercial features. (www.ceydaasar.com) I also have a novel just published by a...
Jordan is a visual artist, filmmaker, and Reader in Time-based Media at the Royal College of Art. Jordan received a BFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and an MA from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Jordan’s films have featured in...
Ahmad Ghossein is a Filmmaker and an artist. He holds an MFA in Visual Art from the National Academy of Art-(KHIO) in Oslo and a BFA in Theater from the Lebanese University, Beirut. Ghossein's latest short film, White Noise, which was produced under the auspices of...
Soudabeh Moradian is a director, producer, screenwriter and editor. She began her career as a filmmaker in 1996 and since then has created more than 70 documentaries, short films, TV series, and feature films. Her films are mainly based on social justice, women’s...
Peter Limbrick, professor, Film & Digital Media, Department Chair, Film & Digital Media, Affiliated Faculty: Feminist Studies, History of Art and Visual Culture. Arab and Middle Eastern Cinemas; Postcolonial and transnational cinemas; settler colonialism;...
Larissa Sansour was born in East Jerusalem, Sansour (PS/DK) studied Fine Art in Copenhagen, London, and New York. She represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennale. Recent solo exhibitions include Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, KINDL in Berlin, Copenhagen...
Prof. Valentina Vitali is a film historian and theorist. Her research explores the interconnections between aesthetics, history, and economics from a comparative perspective. She has published extensively on cinema in South Asia, aspects of Indian visual culture, and...
Renu Savant is a filmmaker and writer based in Mumbai. She is a graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. She has worked as a journalist and researcher in Mumbai. While studying at the FTII, in 2012 she received the Special Mention as...