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Past Cinema

Unreal City: Film Essays on London by Ayo Akingbade and Reece Auguiste

November 12 - November 13

What does it mean to come from somewhere? - Films by Fox Maxy

November 5 - November 6

Liberating History - Inherited Memory: Blood Runs Thicker Than Water (Habibi Collective Shorts II)

October 30 - October 31

Liberating History - Present Futures: Sci-Fi and Social Ecology (Habibi Collective Shorts I)

October 29 - October 30

Liberating History: Fatma 75 (1975)

October 22 - October 23

Liberating History: The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (2011)

October 15 - October 16

Liberating History: Leila and the Wolves (1984)

October 8 - October 9

Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project: Picturing "The Long Term"

September 24

Young People’s Race, Power, and Technology: Policing Surveillance

June 17

Online Event - NU Doc Media Thesis Showcase: Doppler Effect - Part 2

June 12

Online Event - NU Doc Media Thesis Showcase: Doppler Effect - Part 1

June 11

Online Event – Desktop Cinema Working Group: New Digital Ecologies

May 28

Online Event: Badnam Basti (Alley of Ill Repute) – Screening and Discussion

May 7

A Moon For My Father (2019) with filmmaker Mania Akbari

March 5

Present.Perfect (2019) with filmmaker Shengze Zhu

February 28

Compensation (1999)

February 27

Gelin (The Bride) (1973)

February 21

Pyaasa (Thirst) (1957)

February 14

Electro-Pythagoras (a portrait of Martin Bartlett) (2017) with sound designer Ernst Karel

February 13

Three Films by Forugh Farrokhzad and Ebrahim Golestan

February 12

The Runaway (1958)

February 7

Brick and Mirror (1965)

February 6

Twice as Nice (1989) with filmmaker Jessie Maple

January 31

Interview (1971)

January 30

A Night with the Shabistan Film Archive

January 24

Families in Transition

January 23

Carmen Jones (1954)

January 17