T A P E Collective Presents Farah Nabulsi Retrospective + Q&A
Saturday, 22 January 2022
Image: The Present, Farah Nabulsi, 2020
Farah Nabulsi is a Palestinian-British Oscar nominated and BAFTA award-winning filmmaker and human rights advocate. Born, raised, and educated in London Nabulsi’s work incorporates activism in her filmmaking as she prioritises giving a voice to the voiceless.
Farah Nabusli will appear in a recorded Q&A with producer and curator Elhum Shakerifar.
The Present
Farah Nabulsi
24'
2020
Palestine
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?
Nightmare of Gaza
Farah Nabulsi
14'
2018
Palestine
A haunting, abstract and experimental narrative of a woman in the streets of Gaza surrounded by the devastation after the bombs have stopped. She has been helping others, but revelations show it is she who now needs help.
Today They Took My Son
Pierre Dawalibi
7'
2016
Lebanon
A mother coping with her young son being detained, interrogated and imprisoned by a military system. The cruel and inhumane treatment that she knows he is experiencing and her helplessness to be able to prevent it is more than any mother can bear. Based on a UNICEF report, this happens to more than 700 Palestinian children a year.