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.
My Father Is Still a Communist (Abi Ma Zal Shuyu’iyyan, Asrar Hamimah Lil Jamee’)
2011. Lebanon/UAE. 32 min.
Directed by Ahmad Ghossein. Commissioned by the Sharjah Art Foundation.
All that remains of the relationship between Rachid Ghossein and Mariam Hamade are the letters, recorded on audio cassettes, that they sent to one another over 10 years during the civil war in Lebanon. Throughout his childhood, their son Ahmad invented stories about his father being a war hero with the Communist party in Lebanon.
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.