Mural Screening Vol. 3

The screening is followed by a talk

بی نام. (Unnamed)
Iranmehr Salimi, Iran 2023, 13 min. Farsi with English subtitles, DCP

مملكة الغرباء (Kingdom Of Strangers)
Randa Ali, Egypt 2022, 15 min. Arabic with English subtitles, DCP

My Mother’s Wound
Gulzat Matisakova, Kyrgyzstan 2021, 10 min. English, DCP

مذكرات علي (Ali’s Diaries)
Yousef Menesy, Egypt 2023, 8 min. Arabic with English subtitles, DCP

A Matter of Cultural Differences
Mattia Vuono, Germany 2023, 8 min. English, DCP

حدث ذات مرة في دمشق (Once Upon A Time In Damascus)
Alaa Ghorra, Syria 2023, Duration: 16 min. Arabic with English subtitles, DCP

El Camino Del Ruido (The Path of Noise)
Rodrigo Jardon, Mexico 2023, 19 min. Spanish with English subtitles, DCP

زهرة
Dandane Brahim, Algeria 2023, 16 min. Arabic with English subtitles, DCP

Mural is a series of film screenings that aims to celebrate the work of FLINTA/BIWOC/BIPOC filmmakers – more specifically artists with a migration or refugee background – platforming films made with skill and imagination despite the difficulties these artists face accessing resources, spaces and funding. We showcase a wide variety of genres and visual experiments in order to build an alternative space through which to present our voices to the world. With fragments assembled from collective memory, we enrich our visual imagination and in doing so create our own mural.

Explorations of mental health and gender transition, memories of childhood and the push and pull of familial connections, romantic dating and expressing affection through the power of music; the third volume of the Mural screening series brings together 8 films by up and coming FLINTA/BIWOC/BIPOC filmmakers from around the world.

Zahra addresses the dialectic of death and life through the depths of her innocent imagination; Ali, a young Egyptian living in self-exile in Los Angeles, is visited by a memory of an old friend; The protagonist traces the root causes of her depression to her mom’s unhappy life; Ali takes a personal look at the complexities of his childhood in an attempt to reconnect with his feelings at that time. 2 people meet via a dating app using fake profile pictures and fake personal information. The film follows 3 characters as their fate unravels amid the chaos as Syria’s National Football Team plays an important match in Damascus. An intimate film essay that explores the affectional bonds in human groups that use music to express themselves non-verbally. Zainab is a successful girl who supports her family financially, but considers herself a boy in spirit, and now she has decided to undergo gender transition. (Mural)

Collective Mural is a BIPOC Berlin based cultural project founded in 2022 by a group of creatives to promote BIPOC work in different fields of the art. They aim to develop a multidisciplinary relation at the intersection of culture, art, and activism.