In the final event in this film series, Ifriqiya Cinema presents a programme of short films exploring alienation, exile and the concentric layers of kinship that bind us to one another. What do we owe the people and places we consider akin to ourselves? How do we resolve our feelings of impotence and political inaction so far from ‘home’?

Spanning Khartoum, Tunis, Havana, Gaza, and N’Djamena – these films move across Africa and the Arab world, tracing transnational solidarities shaped by shared experiences of displacement and political rupture. Followed by a Q&A moderated by Ifriqiya Cinema.

A Taxi for Aouzou (Chad, 1994)
Directed by Issa Serge Coelo. 22 min

Do Not Dream of a Wonderful World (لا تحلموا بعالم سعيد) (UK, 2022)
Directed by Leena Habiballa. 7 min

End / Fin (Cuba/Mozambique, 2018)
Directed by Lara Sousa. 20 min

Tandid (Tunisia, 2010)
Directed by Walid Mattar. 14 min

About the programme
Church Street Arab Film Nights is curated by The Arab Film Club and Ifriqiya Cinema, in dialogue with Mandy El Sayegh’s Mural: This is a Sign: Notes on Assembly. The programme brings together films by Arab artists and filmmakers working across geographies and diasporas.