MESP 2014 Middle Eastern Film Festival
Friday 16 May – Friday 30 May 2014
Event: Middle Eastern Film Festival: Postcolonial Struggles: Cinema from the Maghreb.
Organisers and Partners: A partnership between The Middle East Festival, MESP, and the Filmhouse, supported by the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Iranian Festival, Screen Academy Scotland, Scottish Documentary Institute, Goethe-Institut Glasgow, Institut Français d’Ecosse, North Edinburgh Arts, Africa in Motion, the Centre for African Studies, University of Edinburgh, among others. Partner cinemas: Filmhouse, Glasgow Film Theatre, DCA, Eden Court, Robert Burns Film Theatre, Bo'ness Hippodrome, and North Edinburgh Arts.
This festival is organised and directed by Neill Walker (on behalf of MESP), with programme curation by James McKenzie and Stefanie Van De Peer, in association with Neill Walker and the Filmhouse, and is managed by Neill Walker (on behalf of the Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace, EICSP, Scottish Charity, SC038996).
The purpose of the Festival is to provide a focus for the study and promotion of Middle Eastern cinema. The geographic area covered by the Festival broadly covers that outlined in Oliver Leahman’s ‘Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film,’ which includes Central Asia, North Africa, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Iraq.
Following on from the retrospective on Iranian cinema in 2009, Egyptian cinema in 2010, Turkish cinema in 2011, Kurdish cinema in 2012, cinema of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict in 2013, this year the season will focus on cinema of the Maghreb (Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria).
There will also be a selection of some of the best of contemporary Middle Eastern cinema from other Middle Eastern countries.
Lead Venue: Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh. EH3 9BZ.
Contact and Booking: 0131 228 2688, www.filmhousecinema.com
Full details on: www.mesp.org.uk