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Holiday Screening: Looking for Oum Kulthum
A film by Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari
Friday, December 24, 2021 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
In this Talk
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Please note this is not a live event.
A film within a film, Looking for Oum Kulthum is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female singer of the Arab world, Oum Kulthum. Through her difficult journey, not unlike her heroine’s, she has to face the struggles, sacrifices, and the price that a woman has to pay if she dares to cross the lines of a conservative male dominated society.
📖 Our tradition is to conclude each event with a poetry reading, so we encourage you to read poems from our current issue after watching the films.
Poetry from the December 2021 / January 2022 issue →
🙏 A special thanks to Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari for making this virtual screening possible!
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨