TAF2025 Screening: “Barzakh”
2024 | 84mins | Tunisia | Arabic DIRECTOR: Kays Mejri Unaware of the evil lurking around her, Farah makes the trip to the family farm to visit her uncle Rachid who has suddenly become very sick. Being that her uncle is her only surviving family, Farah plans to convince Rachid to return to… Continue Reading TAF2025 Screening: “Barzakh”
TAF2025 Shorts Programme: “Dysfunctional Destinies”
FILMS: Blood Ties 2024 | 18mins | France | French A brother and a sister unable to confess a secret. A mother who blames them for their ingratitude and absence. […] Sharshura 2025 | 38mins | Saudi Arabia | Arabic, English Destiny leads Musa to explore his unusual ability to communicate… Continue Reading TAF2025 Shorts Programme: “Dysfunctional Destinies”
TAF2025 Shorts Programme: “Place/Unmaking”
FILMS: I’ll Get Back To You 2024 | 8mins | Palestine | Arabic For the first time in decades, an exile arrives in Palestine and enters his family home. His mission is to […] Baq’a The Open Valley 2024 | 13mins | Canada | Arabic, English While struggling to understand his… Continue Reading TAF2025 Shorts Programme: “Place/Unmaking”
TAF2025 Screening: “Aïcha”
2025 | 123mins | France, Italy, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia | Arabic DIRECTOR: Mehdi M. Barsaoui Aya, thirty-year-old Tunisian, lives in Tozeur, a city in southern Tunisia, at the gates of the desert. Between social diktats, conservatism and disillusionment, Aya is not the happiest girl in the world. One day, a misfortune befalls… Continue Reading TAF2025 Screening: “Aïcha”
TAF2025 Screening: “Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo” + “Soft Coos of Forgotten Neighbors”
2025 | 105mins | Egypt | Arabic DIRECTOR: Khaled Mansour The story follows Hassan and his dog, Rambo, as they embark on a quest to save Rambo from Hassan’s vengeful landlord, whom the dog attacked. Through his challenging journey across Cairo to find a safe haven for Rambo, Hassan confronts his deepest fears… Continue Reading TAF2025 Screening: “Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo” + “Soft Coos of Forgotten Neighbors”
TAF2025 Screening: “Perfumed with Mint”
2024 | 113mins | Egypt, France, Qatar, Tunisia | Arabic DIRECTOR: Muhammad Hamdy Alaa is a 30-year-old doctor. In his clinic one day, he is visited by Mahdy, an old friend who needs help with a strange phenomenon afflicting him: mint is sprouting from his body. Alaa and Mahdy are without shelter. The… Continue Reading TAF2025 Screening: “Perfumed with Mint”
TAF2025 Shorts Programme: “Guerilla Greiving”
FILMS: Mango 2024 | 22mins | Egypt | Arabic, English During a hot August in Cairo, Nadia struggles to mourn her estranged father and his mango tree. I Lay for You to Sleep 2024 | 14mins | Qatar | Arabic Surrounded by grief-stricken women who wash him with care, Ali’s soul… Continue Reading TAF2025 Shorts Programme: “Guerilla Greiving”
TAF2025 Screening: “Arzé”
2024 | 93mins | Lebanon | Arabic DIRECTOR: Mira Shaib To find her stolen scooter, Arze drags her rebellious son on an adventurous journey across Beirut, navigating the city’s web of sectarianism with wit and courage while revealing to her son a long- overdue family secret.
TAF2025 Shorts Programme: “La fin d’amour?”
FILMS: A Wedding Day 2023 | 23mins | France | French The peaceful summer of Jamel, a womaniser, changes dramaticaly as he finds out his ex is getting married. Ebb & Flow 2024 | 18mins | Lebanon | Arabic Determined to have her first kiss, Loulwa defies her tumultuous world in… Continue Reading TAF2025 Shorts Programme: “La fin d’amour?”
CSI presents: “The Reality of (Screen) Characters” with Murray Smith
The Cinema Studies Institute presents a special seminar with Murray Smith, director of the University of Kent’s Aesthetics Research Centre. Professor Smith will discuss his chapter, “The Reality of (Screen) Characters,” published in The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies (2023). Tuesday, June 10, 2025 Room 223E, Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave Abstract Characters are central to our engagement with… Continue Reading CSI presents: “The Reality of (Screen) Characters” with Murray Smith