Neo Nahda
In-person, Virtual
Date/Time: 9/6 (Sat) 2:30 PM (Doors open at 2 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.
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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.