MASTERCLASS WITH AMEER FAKHER ELDIN
15 November 2022
Avery Hall 114
1172 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027
Co-presented by the Graduate School Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Join the master class with director Ameer Fakher Eldin, which will explore the filmmaker's craft as it relates to the making of his first feature fiction film, The Stranger (Al-Garib). The master class is a chance to intimately engage with technical and artistic processes of filmmaking, including the development of script, composition of scenes, the aesthetics of landscapes.
Introduction by Nadine Fattaleh, PhD student in Media, Culture and Communications at New York University.
Ameer Fakher Eldin is a Syrian writer and director based in Germany. He was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1991 to Syrian parents from the occupied Golan Heights. His debut film The Stranger premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival (Giornate Degli Autori), where it won the Edipo Re Award and was selected as Palestine's official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, followed by great acclaim at 43rd Cairo International Film Festival receiving two awards: The Prize for Best Arab Film in the festival and the Shadi Abd El Salam Prize for Best Film in the International Critics Week Competition.
Palestine Cuts 2022-23 Curators
Nadine Fattaleh is a Palestinian writer and researcher from Amman, Jordan. She previously worked on projects at the Center for Spatial Research, Studio-X Amman, and MMAG Foundation. In 2021-2, she was the OSUN Fellow in Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. She is currently a PhD student in Media, Culture and Communications at New York University. Nadine is a member of the Palestinian Social Fund as well as the editorial collective of Science for the People Magazine.
Nasreen Abd Elal is a multidisciplinary graphic designer, illustrator, and researcher whose work centers on the intersection of graphic design and justice-oriented movement work. She works as an information designer at Visualizing Palestine. She graduated with a degree in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies from Columbia University in 2020.
Palestine Cuts is generously supported by Jeanne and Ken Levy-Church.