Film screenings: Morgenkreis (Morning Circle), Capital & Home Movies Gaza, Basma al-Sharif

Basma al-Sharif Artist and filmmaker, Imane Farès Gallery Award-winning Palestinian artist and filmmaker Basma al-Sharif will present early and recent film works, Morgenkreis/Morning Circle (2025, 20:31minutes), which follows a father and son in their intimate rituals as they prepare to start the day and head to kindergarten; Capital (2023, 19 minutes), which centers on the rise of fascism in Egypt by focusing on architecture to highlight the shift from a colonial past to neocolonial infrastructure; and Home Movies Gaza (2013, 24:10 minutes), which presents the Gaza Strip as a microcosm for the failure of civilization.

The screenings will be followed by a conversation with Maryam Kashani.