SWANA Film Festival

Watch two free programs of short films by SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) filmmakers!

> April 8-9 | Screening in Regina, SK
> April 8-30 | Online on VUCAVU

Curated by Christina Hajjar

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The 2022 SWANA Film Festival presents moving image works that engage difficult histories through fiction, documentary, and experimental recontextualization. The films come from the SWANA region and its diasporas, invocating intergenerational memory to understand what was and what remains: he land, birthday parties, coffee grinds, talking face to (inter)face. 
 

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Program 1: Inconvenient Truths 
In-person screening + curator Q&A:  Friday, April 8, 7pm
FREE On VUCAVU - APRIL 8th

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00:14 | Tallahassee, dir. Darine Hotait, 2021, USA, 20 mins
22:37 | A Handful of Dates, dir. Hashim Hassan, 2020, Sudan, 12 mins
33:55 | In Vitro, dir. Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, 2019, Palestine, 28 mins

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00:14 | The Perfect Picture, dir. ​​Hala El Kouch, 2020, Lebanon, 31 mins
31:46 | Sira, dir. Rolla Tahir, 2018, Canada/Egypt, 6 mins 
37:28 | Your Father Was Born 100 years Old, and So Was the Nakba, dir. Razan AlSalah, 2017, Palestine/Canada, 7 mins
44:33 | Clench My Fists, dir. Sarah Trad, 2020, USA, 6 mins
50:30 | Bitter with a Shy Taste of Sweetness, dir. Saif Alsaegh, 2019, USA, 9 mins

S.P.A.N.E 2021

Curated by Johannes Zits

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Working in nature, interacting with it or just being there can be inspiring. These activities may also spark one’s imagination and create the potential for performances. Capturing these performances opens the possibility for its ephemerality to be revisited and shared.

S.P.A.N.E. (Screening of Performance Art in the Natural Environment) was originally conceived ten years ago as a platform for collectively viewing and discussing videos of performances collectively. S.P.A.N.E. 2021, is curated by artist/curator Johannes Zits, whose own practice shares an affinity with cultures in which humanity is seen as continuous with nature.

Zits will present a selection of diverse works where the performers are interacting within a natural setting. Each of the videos presented at SPANE 2021 will reference one of the four basic elements: WATER, AIR, LAND and FIRE. 

PREVIOUS CURATED PROGRAMS

RPL Film School , Curated by Laurie Townshend

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Film School brings together audiences and film experts together for screenings and live discussions about selected films and the important topics they raise.  For the first grouping of Film School screenings for 2021, RPL Film Theatre has invited Laurie Townshend to curate a series of short films which will be screened on Vucavu at the beginning of each month from January to March. Join us in watching and discussing the films together!

PREVIOUS CURATED PROGRAMS

Filmmaker in Focus Series

Dana Inkster
Marjorie Beaucage

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The Regina Public Library (RPL) Film Theatre, in partnership with VUCAVU and the Dunlop Art Gallery, is pleased to present a curated selection of works that showcase the work of independent filmmakers that have particular resonance with our local context. The RPL Film Theatre screens the best of world cinema. We have something for everyone, and are the only cinema in the city to consistently present critically-acclaimed new releases and repertory cinema.