As part of the fifth edition of Videograms festival, the new 2K restoration of Leila and the Wolves by Heiny Srour will screen at Skalvija Cinema Centre, in Vilnius, on On 19 Nov. For more info, see here.
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Leila and the Wolves is a film that reveals a nearly forgotten past of women’s struggle in Palestine and Lebanon attempting to retell these regional narratives from a feminist perspective. As John Akomfrah has written, the film “weaves a rich tableau of history, folklore, myth and archival material.”
The female protagonist (Nabila Zeitoni) is a Lebanese student living in London in the 1980s, where she is staging a photography exhibition in which women are the unsung heroines of political conflict. Through time-travelling sequences spanning from the 1900s to the 1980s, she traverses both real and imaginary landscapes of Lebanon and Palestine.
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Videograms is a recurring festival of video art, artists’ films and moving image practices organised in Lithuania. “Videogram” literally means “writing with video”, while the festival aims to present cinema and video art that do not only reflect, but also actively create history, extending the visual consciousness and establishing a unique means of expression or conversation.
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Leila and the Wolves has been restored by CNC – Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée. Selected for Venice Classics 2021.
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