Film Festivals & Screenings
Please join us for The AMESALL FILM Series by Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures
Feb 15: The Time that Remains, Elia Suleiman, 2009
March 21: Jenin, Jenin, Mohammed Bakri, 2002
April 18: 3000 Nights, Mai Masri, 2015
7:00 PM- 10:00PM
AB 4140
College Ave. Campus
Co-Sponsored by Rutgers Cinema Studies and the Arab Cultural Club
Please join us for a screening of MACHTAT by documentary filmmaker SONIA BEN SLAMA
Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Academic Building, Rm 2125
Machtat follows the life of Fatma and her two daughters, Najeh and Waffeh, who are wedding musicians, or "machtat," in Mahdia, a small city in Tunisia. Filmed from the point of view of these three female wedding singers, the documentary explores issues of marriage and patriarchal rules in contemporary Tunisian society.
The screening will be followed by a discussion and a reception.
Sonia Ben Slama is a French-Tunisian documentary film maker. She grew up in Paris where she studied art and cinema at the University Sorbonne-Nouvelle. She is the director of Machtat (2023) and Maktouh (2015).
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of French, AMESALL, Center for European Studies, Cinema Studies, Comparative Literature.
a Fall 2023 film series
hosted by Russian & East European Languages & Literatures
co-sponsored by Cinema Studies
Friday, Sep 22, 11:30am
STALKER
(dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
screening and discussion
led by Prof. Kitzinger
Friday, Oct 20, 11:30am
SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS
(dir. Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
screening and discussion
led by Prof. Khazanov
Friday, Dec 8, 11:30am
THE LONG FAREWELL
(dir. Kira Muratova, 1971/1987)
screening and discussion
led by Prof. Van Buskirk
4140 Academic Building West (Cinema Studies Seminar Room)
all screenings with English subtitles
pizza and refreshments will be provided
For all inquiries, contact Prof. Khazanov (