The Secret Garden
Tuesday 30 January 2024, from 19:30 to 21:00
The film is followed by a Q&A with Nour Ouayda and Carine Doumit. The screening is part of a longer film program of Home Works 9: A Forum of Cultural Practice by Ashkal Alwan.
The Secret Garden
Dir. Nour Ouayda, 2023
27’, Lebanon
In Arabic with English subtitles
The inhabitants of a city wake up one morning to find that never-before-seen trees, plants, and flowers suddenly erupted throughout the streets and in the squares. Strange and mysterious events start to take place as Camelia and Nahla investigate the origins of these new and peculiar creatures.
Nour Ouayda (b. 1991, Canada) is a filmmaker and film programmer. Her films experiment with various forms of fiction writing in cinema. She is a member of The Camelia Committee with Carine Doumit and Mira Adoumier and part of the editorial committee of the Montreal-based online film journal Hors Champ. Between 2018 and 2023, she was deputy director of the Metropolis Cinema Association in Beirut where she managed and developed the Cinematheque Beirut project.
