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Anti-Colonial Film Night with Rawy Film: What Remains, What Is Carried
A screening of six short films followed by a conversation with two of the filmmakers via Zoom
17. February 2026
18.30-21.00
18.30-21.00
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For free
for adults
Arabic/in English/in French/multilingual/Kurdisch
We are pleased to announce the fourth edition of Anti-Colonial Film Night at Spore Initiative, a screening series organized by the Jewish Bund and AL.Berlin.
Join us as we come together to watch and discuss anti-colonial films from around the world and the revolutionary struggles they represent.
Each screening features one or more local political groups or activists, who will lead the discussion by linking the themes of the film to our current realities and struggles. These discussions will bring together diverse anti-colonial perspectives at this shared juncture of empire and capital. We envisage these encounters as spaces for collective learning, questioning and reflection, and as an invitation to engage more deeply by supporting the participating groups’ work, actions and initiatives.
What Remains, What Is Carried
With shorts from across the SWANA region, this program brings together films that engage with cultural heritage through concrete practices: farming and land relations, wedding rituals, oral storytelling, poetry, analog filmmaking, and everyday acts of care and survival. Moving between documentary, fiction, and experimental forms, the works show how culture is carried through bodies, materials, and landscapes, and how it persists under political pressure, displacement, and historical rupture.
Tan/ Vatan, 2024
Homa Sarabi, United States,
8 mins.
Experimental,
No Dialogue
Taazrit, 2024
Arinas Kaouther Dernouni, Algeria,
34 mins.
Documentary,
Arabic and French with English subtitles
Oracle, 2025
Leena Aboutaleb, Greece, Egypt, Palestine,
9 mins.
Experimental,
English with English subtitle
The Wall, 2024
Alaa Abuzaineh, Palestine,
7 mins.
Fiction,
Arabic with English subtitles
(Against Forgetting) Dijî Jibîrkirinê, 2024
Azad Azizyan, Kurdistan & United States,
22 mins.
Documentary,
Kurdish with English subtitles
The Scent of Felicity, 2025
Alaa Nasser, Egypt,
7 mins.
Documentary,
Arabic with English subtitles
Total duration of all six films: 1:26:51
Arabic, Kurdish, French and English with English subtitles
Conversation: English
Food by the Ararat Collective from 18:30 before the screening.
Language accessibility
Films will be shown in their original languages with subtitles whenever available. Discussions will be held in English, with the option of simultaneous interpretation if required.
