The Palestinian-Irish actress tells AZEEMA about her new BBC documentary "The Holy Land and Us," and how founding the Arab Film Club has allowed her to challenge Arab stereotypes on screen.
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From resistance to ruptured identities, we speak to Dina Amer on her debut film ‘You Resemble Me’; a beautiful, tragic and cathartic re-telling of a true story about Hasnaa Aït Boulahcen, the French-Moroccan woman who was implicated in the Paris Attacks of 2015.
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Following the release of ‘The Swimmers’ on Netflix – a film about her and her sister’s refugee journey from Syria – the Olympic swimmer tells Digital Editor Dalia Al-Dujaili why she wants to shift the narrative towards real women’s refugee stories.
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Complicated mother-daughter relationships are often heightened between immigrant mothers and their daughters, where cultural conflicts add fire to existing generational and familial disconnections. After watching the short film Shaymaa – an exploration of the complications of immigrant parenthood – Italian-Egyptian writer Aya Mohamed meditates on her own tenuous but joyful relationship with her mother.
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Moroccan-Swedish Choreographer and Visual Artist Mona Namér takes us on a journey of metamorphosis, rebirth and escapism with her new short film, A Bath In My Mothers Womb. We talk to Mona about her inspirations and the experiences of making the film, unearthing her own traumas surrounding identity, mental health and healing.
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Documentary filmmaker Sonita Gale talks us through her reasons behind making her recent BAFTA-shortlisted film ‘Hostile’ and how her family’s migration from India to working-class white neighbourhoods in the North of England has inspired her wider creative and political work.
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‘Symbioses’, the filmmaker’s latest short art film, addresses growing up mixed race and harks to the beauty of filming with natural light at sunrise: here, Sarah walks us through the behind-the-scenes creation of the film.
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