Another Reality screening: Genre cinema in the Arab world

Posted 27 Mar 2024 by Abla Kan in

AWAN partnered with The Arab Film Club to present Another Reality: Genre Shorts by Arab Women Filmmakers, here at the Garden Cinema, a programme curated by Sarah Agha. AWAN is the UK’s only contemporary multi-arts festival dedicated to showcasing inspiring works from Arab female artists.

Sarah discusses the shorts with their respective directors, and the growth of genre cinema in the Arab world more generally, with input from our audience.
The films screened were:
Ladies Coffee (2024) by Amal Al-Agroobi, The Call (2023) by Riffy Ahmed, and In Vitro (2019) by Larissa Sansour.

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