Neo Nahda

In-person & Virtual

Date/Time: 9/5 (Fri) 9:30 PM (Doors open at 9 PM)
Location: Brooklyn Art Haus (24 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211)

Streaming period: 9/8 (Mon) 12:00 AM ET - 9/14 (Sun) 11:59 PM ET.

Streaming is only available in the U.S.

Director   May Ziadé
Country   United Kingdom
Year   2023
Language   English
Genre   Drama, Coming-of-age, Archives
Running Time   12 min

Mona, a young woman in London, finds archive photographs of Arab women cross-dressing in the 1920s. Somewhere between her fantasies and reality, she starts a feverish journey of uncovering lost histories and her own identity. Through a coming-of-age narrative, the film explores the euphoric relationship those who are marginalised create with images and symbols, and how archive images can be a portal for the world of inner projections, creating meaning and grounding one's identity

This film is part of the Shorts: Queering the Dreamscape program.

Director’s Bio

May Ziadé (she/her)

May Ziadé is a London-based French-Lebanese filmmaker, filmworker and the co-founder of Other People’s Films – a production company that produces and creates bridges between moving image work and ‘conventional’ cinema that plays with form. Her work currently focuses on the emotional and physical unfoldings of the societal and cultural pressures to conform.