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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/farida-benylazid-a-door-to-moroccan
 -cinema/
SUMMARY:Farida Benylazid : A Door to Moroccan Cinema
DESCRIPTION:\n\nA Door to the Sky\, Farida Benlyazid\, 1989\, 107 min. Q&am
 p\;A with Director Farida Benylazid\, Florence Martin\, and Madeleine Dobi
 e will follow\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n 	Event lasts 2 h
 ours 30 minutes\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn French and Moroccan Arabic with English 
 subtitles. Screening followed by a Q&amp\;A with Director Farida Benylazi
 d\, Florence Martin\, and Madeleine Dobie\n\nPlease join us for a screenin
 g of Moroccan filmmaker Farida Benylazid’s newly-restored 1989 film A D
 oor to the Sky\, the first feature film directed by a Moroccan woman. The 
 screening will be followed by a conversation with the director led by film
  scholar Florence Martin and Columbia Professor Madeleine Dobie.\n\nA Door
  to the Sky imagines an emigrant’s return to Morocco\, where she create
 s\, in her family home\, a zaouiya – a site devoted to spiritual study
  and worship – specifically for women. The film explores themes of exile
  and return as well as questions of gender and religion\, probing the inte
 rsections of feminism and Muslim faith.\n\nFarida Benylazid is a pioneeri
 ng Moroccan film producer\, director\, journalist and film critic whose ca
 reer in cinema has spanned close to five decades. Her body of work explore
 s questions of gender and identity in Morocco since independence.\n\nA spe
 cialist of Maghrebi women’s cinema\, Professor Florence Martin teaches
  at Goucher College. Her latest book is Farida Benlyazid and Moroccan Cin
 ema (Palggrave MacMillan\, 2024).\n\nMadeleine Dobie is Professor of Fre
 nch &amp\; Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a specialist 
 of Maghrebi literature and culture.\n\nThe conversation will be in English
  with translation for Farida Benylazid.\n\nThe Columbia campus is currentl
 y open only to Columbia-affiliated guests (guests with a CUID). However\, 
 outside guests who register to attend a public event will be allowed to en
 ter campus for the event if we provide their names and emails ahead of tim
 e.\nPlease be sure to register for any events at least 48 hours ahead of t
 ime to ensure your name is on the list\, and bring your ID with you.\n\n\n
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CATEGORIES:#arabic,Arab Ameircan Event,Arab America,Arab Film,Arabic Film
 and Modern Poetry,Film,Film Screening
LOCATION:Maison Française East Gallery Buell Hall\, 515 West 116th Street\
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