GERMANY+EGYPT
THE NOISE
OF CAIRO
DOUBLE BILL
BELARUS
SELF-PORTRAIT
IN HANDCUFFS
Thu 16 Oct at 3pm, ACMI 2
Wed 22 Oct at 7.30pm, ACMI 1
Director Heiko Lange takes us to
downtown Cairo to meet 12 artists
who, in the wake of Mubarak’s
overthrow, celebrate their newly
won freedoms in paint, dance,
photography, street art and theatre.
See the new face of Egyptian art,
flourishing at the epicentre of
Egypt’s ongoing political upheaval.
Filmmaker Viktar Dashuk brings
us a quirky documentary about a
very different kind of Belarusian
revolutionary. With many of his
comrades-in-arts having long since
fled or been exiled, Ales Pushkin
wages an eccentric one-man battle
of artistic resistance against the
repressive dictatorship.
60 mins, English subtitles, 2012
62 mins, English subtitles, 2012
USA+UAE
THROUGH A
LENS DARKLY
BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS
AND THE EMERGENCE
OF A PEOPLE
In this award-winning documentary,
Thomas Allen Harris uses photos
from his own family album to show
how images of ‘blackness’ have
affected his family and sense of
self-worth as an African-American,
making for a powerful testament to
the redemptive powers of creativity.
Fri 17 Oct at 7.30pm, ACMI 1*
Sun 19 Oct at 4.30pm, ACMI 1
94 mins, 2014
* Includes introduction by filmmaker
GREECE
THE SHEIK
AND I
PLAYING
WITH FIRE
When asked by the Emirate of
Sharjah to make a film about ‘art
as a subversive act’, filmmaker
Caveh Zahedi was given one rule:
don’t make fun of the sheik. So he
did, a lot – making for a satirical,
blasphemous frolic through free
speech in the Middle East.
Being an actress in Afghanistan
is a tenuous profession, as Greek
director Anneta Papathanassiou
discovers when she visits Kabul to
teach ancient Greek theatre.
Sat 18 Oct at 7.30pm, ACMI 1
Fri 24 Oct at 12.30pm, ACMI 1
104 mins, 2012
USA
Facing harsh criticism, exile and
worse, the act &W76W2&R6Vv