2023 marks 20 years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq. It is a heavy time for Iraqis. So much of the war has been told from the perpetrators. From the invading war veterans who committed atrocities in Iraq. But Iraqi stories FROM Iraqis have been scarcely seen or platformed.
This year at the first ever SWANA Film Festival in so-called Australia, we are proud to be OPENING our festival with the Australian premiere of ‘Baghdad in My Shadow’. An Iraqi made film about Iraqi immigrants in London featuring a majority Iraqi cast!
Get your tickets and join us for this momentous event!
https://riversideparramatta.com.au/category/cinema/filmfestivals/swana-film-festival/
If you watched our IG live with Widyan Fares you would have heard our announcement…Baghdad in My Shadow directed by award-winning Swiss-Iraqi director Samir is our official opening night film!
Baghdad in My Shadow is a tale of new loves, return of old threats and the ache for a home that is no longer.
A perfect balance of dramatic, tender and funny, this film will keep you in your seat until its final moments.
Baghdad in My Shadow was the unanimous choice as the inaugural SWANA Film Festival opening night film! Save the date and keep an eye on our page for ticket sales coming soon…!!
Whether you call it dabke, chobi, halay, khigga or halparke, this type of folk dance is widespread throughout the SWANA region.
Whether you call it dabke, chobi, halay, khigga or halparke, this type of folk dance is widespread throughout the SWANA region. People moving as one by interlocking fingers and holding hands represents solidarity and cooperation. For centuries, SWANA people utilised dance and other art forms to tell stories of hope, love and struggle.
Our tradition of storytelling lives on, with the inaugural SWANA film festival coming to screens in April 2023. #swanafilmfestival #swana #SWANA
Before becoming one of the largest exporters of TV dramas in the world, Turkey had ‘Yeşilçam’ (Green Pine), a metonym for the Turkish film industry, similar to Hollywood in the United States.
Throughout the 1970s and 80s, Yeşilçam regularly churned out low-budget versions of Hollywood box office smashes and they came with a Turkish makeover. Some of these films have now reached a cult status.
Do you know any other remakes of famous Western films made in Turkey or broader SWANA?
Does this song sound familiar?
‘Misirlou’ is a well-known folk song throughout the SWANA region. The word Misirlou is rooted in the Arabic term for Egypt – Misr. Add the suffix -li/-lou, and the word becomes Misirli/Misirlou and means “from Egypt”, or “Egyptian” in Turkish and Greek.
While the song’s original composer is unknown, it became popular with Armenian, Arabic, Jewish and Greek musicians in the 1920s. Then, in 1962, Dick Dale’s surf rock version of the song introduced it to the Western world. It later gained renewed popularity when director Quentin Tarantino used it in his 1994 film Pulp Fiction, and again when it was sampled in the Black Eyed Peas’ song “Pump It” in 2006.
🎬 Don't miss your chance to be part of the inaugural SWANA Film Festival! We are looking for films made by SWANA creatives that tell original stories! Submit your films via film freeway now!
For what we DON'T want, watch this Tik Tok👇!
Reposted from @yaaasssmeen
The progression of this only gets truer and truer lmao.
Compiled by me.
Video Credits: TT @rudyayoub @sam._.zee @nourmanhal0 meanraneem @janaforkel @aslanpahari @moses_ssebandeke
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