Zoom on Nada El-Omari

2025-05-23T19:00:00Z

Le Polygone étoilé, 1 Rue François Massabo, 13002 Marseille, France

Tickets: Free pricing without prior reservation (caution: limited capacity) In partnership with Instants Vidéo In the presence of Nada El-Omari (director) SOME STRINGS: tunis, may 2024 Filmmakers and artists from around the world have formed Some Strings, an ensemble of unreleased filmic gestures that is rooted in Palestine, where poet and teacher Refaat Alareer was targeted by Israeli strikes. In his last poem, "If I Must Die", he calls those who should live to create a kite - a long-standing object of resistance. Directors: Soumeya Ait Ahmed, Nadir Bouhmouch Production of Some Strings project: Narimane Mari Yaffa Canada | 2019 | 7 min | Experimental "Yaffa" is a short experimental film in which space and time become meshed together to form the fragments we create our stories from. In those pieces of images, memories arise and stories retell themselves. It is through our mutual time, words, explorations and spaces that I realized my grandfather gifted me a home. Director: Nada El-Omari Production: Nada El-Omari from where to where من وين لوين d’où vers où Canada | 2021 | 8 min | Experimental In the pieces I store and carry along my many different roads, my dialects may be signs of bruises but reclaimed they form the skin and voice I live in. Experiences of the where, from where, to where; a narrative amongst others. And as the words finally trickle through the needles, fingers seeping with tints trace the outline of whirling fields where I hang a jasmine branch on suspended necks and in the in-betweens, language soothes, swans mend, and the daily brings calm. We are the comfort of our multiples. Director: Nada El-Omari Production: Nada El-Omari in the jasmine vines Canada | 2021 | 30 min | Experimental Shaping a memoir of my personal return, "in the jasmine vines" is an assertion that the amalgam that makes my complex identity belongs, gifted by my grandfather and his story and honoured by the generations following his. Forming an imagery of complex memory, archive, story and imagination, this film is a learnt way to place my existence within a narrative. And so, I look for the scents they carry in the jasmine vines. Director : Nada El-Omari Production : Nada El-Omari