Transparency

 

ABOUT THE FILM

In addition to introducing the political and ideological controversy about veiling, Transparency investigates the more personal reasons and feelings of women toward this issue. The film depicts social and psychological impacts of veiling (and unveiling) through telling the stories of different Muslim women who live in the U.S. One story involves Merve Kavakci, a member of the Turkish parliament who left her country after she was not allowed to practice her role as a PM because she wears a headscarf.

 
 
DOAN | Filmmakers
Osama Al-Zain
Osama Al-Zain

Osama Al-Zain is a filmmaker and writer. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Jordan. After winning the Moris Sheer Award for short videos at The International Competition for Students Artist sponsored by Savannah College of Art and Design, he moved to the USA to pursue his graduate studies in film and video. 

 
 

Osama Al-Zain -- 30' (USA: 2002)

Travel Agency

 

ABOUT THE FILM

This short film – made up of Super-8 footage of a family visit to Palestine, shot by the director’s father in the 70´s – looks at a world already lost. By revisiting and reformulating these images as a tourist advertisement, an new image of Palestine emerges – one that may be the fiction of nostalgia, or one which tells the truth of loss through the absurdities of commercial language.

 
 
DOAN | Filmmakers
Nabila Irshaid
Nabila Irshaid

Nabila Irshaid was born in Osnabrueck, Germany. She studied art in Hamburg where she received her diploma in 1999. Since 1994 she has had various international exhibits of her video art and installations.

 
 

Nabila Irshaid -- Experimental, 8' (Austria/Germany: 2001)