Films

Films for Final Assignment

Iran

First Case, Second Case (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1979)
(Iran, revolution, the question of solidarity in the face of dictatorship, 1979)
https://vimeo.com/79940920

The Green Wave (Ali Samadi Ahadi, Iran, 2010)
(Iran’s 2010 revolution question of democracy and authoritarianism)
NYU Bobst

Israel/Palestine

Arna’s Children (Juliano Mer-Khamis, Palestine, 2004)
(nonviolence, education, protests against occupation of Palestine, roots of Second Intifada) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQZiHgbBBcI

The law in these parts (Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israel, 2013)
(documentary on Israel's military legal system in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip)
NYU Bobst, Amazon

When I Saw You (Annemarie Jacir, Palestine, 2012)
(Palestinian refugees in Jordan after 1967)
NYU Bobst

Fertile Memory (Michel Khleifi, Palestine, 1980)
(portraits of Palestinian women citizens of Israel; memory; “first feminist Arab film”)
NYU Bobst

5 Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, Israel/Palestine, 2012)
(non-violent resistance in the West Bank)
NYU Bobst and Netflix

Omar (Hany Abu-Assad, Palestine, 2014)
(young Palestinian under occupation; politics of collaboration with Israelis)

The Gulf/Palestine

The Dupes (Al-kakhdu’un) (Tewfik Saleh, Palestine/Kuwait, 1973)
(A group of Palestinian workmen in the early 1950s try to cross the border illegally from Iraq into Kuwait, to join the oil boom)
NYU Bobst

Egypt

Adrift on the Nile (Hussein Kamal, Egypt, 1971)
(decadence and corruption of Egyptian society during Nasser’s era)
NYU Bobst

The Square (Jehane Noujaim, Egypt, 2013)
(Egyptian uprising of January 2011)
Netflix

North Africa

Tunisia, Year Zero (Feriel Ben Mahmoud, Tunisia, 2012)
(Tunisia, first post-Ben Ali election, Islamist political parties)
NYU Bobst

The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy/Algeria, 1966)
(anticolonial movement, violence, urban warfare)
NYU Bobst; Amazon

Turkey

Ekümenopolis: City Without Limits (İmre Azem, Turkey, 2012)
(Turkey, Gezi protests; politics of urban planning and neoliberalism) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maEcPKBXV0M

Syria

Return to Homs (Talal Derki, Syria, 2013)
(Syria, 2011 protests and subsequent armed conflict)
http://www.pbs.org/pov/returntohoms/video/return-to-homs/