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ARAB-IRANIAN
SHORTS
Sunday,
October 20
9:00pm
Litttle Theatre
A queer identity exists even in cultures where queer issues are largely un-mentionable. This collection of Arab and Iranian short films, both documentary and fiction, focuses the lens on unique perspectives of gay life. In WHO HANGS THE LAUNDRY? a woman speaks revealingly to the camera as she does laundry in a post-war Beirut. Set in the same city, RED CHEWING GUM is an experimental poem to a past lover obsessed with a chewing gum vendor from his childhood. Arab and Israeli class struggle, political oppression, and the nature of power are explored in the unflinching drama DIARY OF A MALE WHORE. In San Francisco, the adult gay son of a Nation of Islam Imam discusses his views with a gay Iranian man in ACT OF FAITH. And in JUST A WOMAN, get to know a remarkable transsexual living in modern-day Tehran, a place where sex-reassignment surgery is legal, but where shame, intolerance and restrictive notions of women’s roles can still prove daunting.
ACT OF FAITH; Dan Bree, director; 2002; USA; 7 minutes; video
WHO HANGS THE LAUNDRY?; Tina Nacche and Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdottir,
directors; 2002; Iceland/Lebanon; 20 minutes; video
RED CHEWING GUM; Akram Zaatari, director; 2000; Lebanon;
10 minutes; video (in Arabic with English subtitles)
DIARY OF A MALE WHORE; Tawfik Abu Wael, director; 2001;
Palestine; 15 minutes; video (in Arabic with English subtitles)
JUST A WOMAN; Mitra Farahani, director; 2002; France;
29 minutes; video (in Farsi with English subtitles)
ASL interpreted before subtitled film
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