As part of Safar: The Festival of Popular Arab Cinema, we brought back The Forum! This time, we put it on a Saturday and it was a great success.

There were three panel discussions, each dealing with a different subject matter and the video below covers session two:

REVOLUTIONARY AND REVOLUTION IN CINEMA: REFLECTING ON ARAB CINEMATIC HISTORIES

Speakers:

Dr Viola Shafik, Freelance Filmmaker, Curator and the Author of Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity (AUC: 2007) and Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class, and Nation (AUC: 2007)

Sara Ishaq, Writer and Director of The Mulberry House and the Oscar-nominated Karama Has No Walls

Chaired by Nesrine Malik, Writer, Commentator and regular Contributor to The Guardian’s Comment Is Freesection

Safar Forum Session 2 | The Space of Cinema: Cinema and it’s Possibilities from The Arab British Centre on Vimeo.