Let My Body Speak

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Official section: Short Films
The gaze of Arab and Persian cinema
Session: One Thousand and One Queer Stories

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At the French Institute

SAT 13/06 ● 8 pm

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Title: Let My Body Speak
Direction: Madonna Adib
Cast: Madonna Adib
Production: Noe Mendelle
Distribution: Amar Sokhen
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 10’
Country: United Kingdom, Syria, Lebanon
Year: 2020
O.V. in Arabic. Subtitles in Spanish

Festivals: Amsterdam (documentaries), Ann Arbor (USA, experimental film), Barnes, Cyprus (LGBTQ+), Edinburgh (films for social change), Glasgow (LGBTQ+), Glasgow (Arab and North African women’s cinema), Lisbon (LGBTQ+), London (LGBTQ+), London (short films), Milan (women’s cinema), Palm Springs (short films), Paris (independent European cinema), Paris (independent and experimental cinema), Riego de la Vega (short films), Salem, St. Petersburg (LGBTQ+), Seoul (LGBTQ+), Soria (British cinema), Toronto (documentaries), Warsaw (documentaries directed by women)

First showing in Barcelona

This documentary is a personal and intimate journey exploring the repression experienced by the filmmaker during her childhood when she faced sexual control in a Damascus also experiencing a growing socio-political repression in the late 80s – early 90s. Through the creative use of family archive in Damascus mixed with current footage of her body she reconstructs the pain of the past absorbed by her body.

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