Films by Arab filmmakers presented in collaboration with Abu Dhabi Film Festival, and selected from the second part of a three-part programme developed by the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Arte East. The series aims to map the largely unknown heritage of personal, artistic, and sometimes experimental cinema from the Arab world.
Tayyeb, Khalas, Yalla (Okay, Enough, Goodbye)
2011. Lebanon/USA/UAE. 93 min.
Written and directed by Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia. With Daniel Arzrouni, Nadimeh Attieh.
Okay, Enough, Goodbye is a caustic coming-of-age story about a man pushing 40 who lives with his elderly mother. Using her complete dependence on him as an excuse, he has refrained from making a life for himself—until one day when, without warning, his mother moves to Beirut. Attieh and Garcia’s debut feature is an incisive deconstruction of manhood and a graceful meditation on inertia, loneliness, and cowardice. Winner of the Black Pearl at the 2010 Abu Dhabi Film Festival. In Arabic; English subtitles.
Mapping Subjectivity is co-organized by the Museum of Modern Art and ArteEast. Curated by Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film, MoMA, and Rasha Salti, Senior Director, ArteEast. Presented in association with the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.