PROGRAM 5 Tuesday April 28th at the Maison Française Columbia University
Post-Screening discussion
Moderator:
Filmmakers:
Like a Spiral
Lamia Chrab
Canada/Québec
2024, 28 minutes
Like a Spiral is a dialogue between Beirut and five women, migrant domestic workers, under the Kafala system. Expressing their belonging to a society in collapse, the women’s voices rise through the film’s grainy images to denounce their stolen freedom with an inalienable thirst for existence. Their memories dance in the rhythm of oppression. Caught within life’s spiral, they lift themselves up to not sink into oblivion.
Tchatcha Independence
Alexis
Belgique
To be announced
Suisse
Zolla
Victoria Neto
France
2025, 29 minutes
Torn between her life as a disillusioned university student and her role as a firstborn daughter under immense pressure, Zolla—a twenty-year-old Black woman of Congolese descent—is determined to achieve her independence at any cost. To do so, however, she must confront her mother—a woman who refuses to be abandoned a second time...
Cairo Strets
Addellah Taia
Egypte
2025, 19 minutes
"Janvier 2007. Je suis de retour au Caire. Pour le travail. Tu as changé ton numéro, Omar. Je dois te retrouver. Je t’aime… Abdellah."
"January 2007. I’m back in Cairo. For work. You changed your number, Omar. I have to find you. I love you… Abdellah."
Cœur d’enfants, (Children’s hearts)
Isabelle Kolkol,
Guinée
2024, 9 minutes
La vie en famille de Loua TÖNWÔN une fillette de 10 ans
The family life of Loua TÖNWÔN, a 10-year-old girl.