Tashweesh Festival to Be Launched in Cairo

CAIRO, Nov 10 (SEE)- Tashweesh festival Cairo that centred on feminism is opened on 9 November with a six day programme of music concerts, theatre and dance performances, screenings, and video art. It will conclude with a concert by Huda Asfour on 12 November.

Tashweesh aims to stimulate conversations on feminism, and act as a platform for knowledge exchange and shake up the stereotypes on women, women representation and gender on both sides of the Mediterranean.

The event includes 40 video artworks by artists from Germany, Egypt, Jordan, and USA. It is considered part of the film programme which runs in parallel at Cimatheque between 1 and 6 November, with 31 international films. Festival is organised by the Goethe Institute in Cairo and admissions to all events are free.

* Part of Programme:

-Saturday 10 November 4 pm

- Short films:

Home Stories

Matthias Müller (Germany,1991)

6 min (no dialogue)

- B Face

Laila Albayaty (Belgium/Germany, 2015)

40 min, English and French

-Handtinting

Joyce Wieland (Canada,1967)

6 min (no dialogue)

-La Souriante Madame Beudet

Germaine Dulac (France, 1923)

35 min, with Eunice Martins On the

piano

- At 7:30pm Lecture performance: Wish You Were Here! by Foundland Collective.

* Sunday 11 November 5pm 

- Short films:

-Whaled Women

-Ewa Einhorn/Jeuno Je Kim (Sweden, 2012)

-9 min, Swedish with English subtitles

-Serious Ladies

-Susanne Sachsse (Germany, 2013)

-21 min (German/English mix)

-Wa Wailah / Oh Torment

Monira Al Qadiri (Kuwait, 2008)

10 min, Arabic with English subtitles

-The Craft

Monira Al Qadiri (Kuwait, 2017)

16 min English with Arabic Subtitles

- At 6.30pm lecture: Transnational Justice and Gendered Vulnerability:

-Feminist Politics and (Im)Possible Solidarities, by Nikita Dhawan

-At 9pm performance: Leila’s Death by Ali Chahrour

80min

- Falaki Theater

*Monday 12 November 6pm

-Short films:

-TaRAHI II

Haris Epaminonda (Cyprus, 2006)

4 min, no dialogue

Have You Ever Killed a Bear? Or Becoming Jamila

Marwa Arsanios (Lebanon, 2014)

25 min, Arabic with English subtitles

-The Making of a Demonstration

- Sandra Schäfer (Germany, 2004)

11 min, Dari/German with Arabic Subtitles

-At 10pm closing concert: Huda Asfour

* places:

-Medrar for Contemporary Art, Apt. 4, 1st Floor, 7 Gamal El-Din Abou El Mahasen, Garden City.

-Jesuit Theater, 15 El-Mahrany St., Fagalah.

- Falaki Theater, 24 Falaki Street, Bab El-Louq, Downtown.