proudly present

Middle East Movie  Night – Real vs Reel (alMashreq) 

The Middle East Institute and The Arts House are proud to present our fourth run of the Middle East Movie Nights.  This year, audiences will get to be even closer to the Middle East when they attend the film screenings. Under the theme of Reel vs Real, we will not only present various regions of the Middle East via the artistic expressions of movie-makers, we will also showcase how everyday people in the regions live and express themselves via factual documentaries. Each double-bill, which will be screened in two consecutive nights, will consist of a feature movie on the first night and a documentary on the second night. As per previous runs of the series, audiences can share their opinions of each film and ask questions about the films during the post-screening discussion segment which will be facilitated by Middle East Studies experts provided by the Middle East Institute.

The second double-bill of films this year feature films from the region of alMashreq (the Levant). The second film from this region being presented is the Academy Award Nominated documentary entitled ‘5 Broken Cameras’.

Five Broken Cameras 

Director Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi | 2011 | Palestine/Israel | 90mins
Documentary | Arabic & Hebrew with English Subtitles | NC16

There were five cameras altogether — each with its own story. When his fourth son, Gibreel, was born in 2005, self-taught cameraman Emad Burnat, a Palestinian villager, got his first camera. Concurrently in his village of Bil’in, the Israelis began bulldozing the village’s olive groves to build a barrier to separate Bil’in from the Jewish Settlement Modi’in Illit. During the next year, Burnat filmed the struggle of the villagers led by two of his best friends, while at the same time recording the growth of his son. Very soon, these two events collided and affected his family and his own life…

Free Admission via compulsory registration HERE

 There will be a post-show discussion conducted by a research staff from the Middle East Institute.

Registration Desk opens from 7:00pm. Screening begins at 7.30pm. Please arrive early in order to avoid delay of the screening