Featuring "A Night We Held Between" (2024, Noor Abed), "letter to a friend" (2019, Emily Jacir), "Electrical Gaza" (2015, Rosalind Nashashibi), and "There Was Nothing Here Before" (2024, Yvann Yagchi), the screenings this fall will be followed by discussions with the filmmakers, foregrounding cinema as a space of memory, resistance, and reimagining.

Organized by David Bucheli (eikones), Aïcha Revellat (eikones), Ute Holl (Media Studies), Falestin Naïli (Near and Middle Eastern Studies), Lorena Rizzo (African Studies), and Peter Burleigh (English Seminar).

Program

• 22 October: "letter to a friend" (2019, 43min). Guest: Emily Jacir, Chair: Aïcha Revellat. Venue: KHaus, Kasernenhof 8
  CH-4058 Basel, Saal
• 13 November: "Electrical Gaza" (2015, 18min). Guest: Rosalind Nashashibi, Chair: Falestin Naïli. Venue: KHaus, Kasernenhof 8
  CH-4058 Basel, Saal
• 20 November: "A Night We Held Between" (2024, 30min). Guest: Noor Abed, Chair: Chus Martínez. Venue: Auditorium D 1.04, Tower Building, HGK Basel FHWN, Oslo-Strasse 3, 4142 Münchenstein
• 8 December: "Avant, il n’y avait rien / There Was Nothing Here Before" (2024, 71min). Guest: Yvann Yagchi, Chair: Ute Holl, Venue: KHaus, Kasernenhof 8
  CH-4058 Basel, Saal