EUME Discussion
Thu 30 Mar 2017 | 20:00–22:00

In this Land Lay Graves of Mine

Film screening (a film by Reine Mitri, Lebanon 2015) and discussion with Khaled Saghieh (Beirut/EUME Fellow 2016/17) & Rabih El-Khoury

Werkstatt der Kulturen, Wissmannstraße 32, 12049 Berlin

Documentary by Reine Mitri, Lebanon 2015, 110 min, Arabic with Engl. subtitles

Discussant: Khaled Saghieh (Beirut / EUME Fellow 2016/17) & Rabih El-Khoury

Synopsis:
Selling her land in a “Christian village” to a Muslim has taken the director of the film on a journey into present-day territorial and demographic fears between Lebanon’s communities. These fears perpetuate past traumas generated from massacres and forced displacements, which were perpetrated on sectarian basis during the civil war. Since the war ended in 1990, land transactions are completing what the war has not achieved: dividing the country into sectarian enclaves.
By intimately interweaving her own memory with the narratives of displacements of the protagonists, the film reveals a dark present where an exploding landscape reflects the communities’ reciprocal fears, hatred and intolerance, as the Middle East region is witnessing new forced displacements of minorities and ethnic cleansing.

 

Khaled Saghieh is currently a fellow of the research program Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME). He began his career as a journalist in 1998 at the Lebanese daily al-Safir. Until 2011, he was the deputy editor-in-chief of the daily al-Akhbar. Between 2012 and 2015, Saghieh worked as editor-in-chief of the news department at the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International (LBCI). He also earned an MA in Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

The film screening and discussion are part of the Arabic film series “Beyond Spring”, organized by Mayadin Al-Tahrir e.V., EUME and the Werkstatt der Kulturen. In cooperation with alfilm.

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