WMM at MESA 2025
Thank you so much for attending Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference 2025. We were honored to have three films distributed by Women Make Movies screen, including: MY STOLEN PLANET, MUSLIM IN AMERICA, and BYE BYE TIBERIAS.
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My Stolen PlanetDir. Farahnaz Sharifi Farah, an Iranian woman, was born in 1979 at the end of the Islamic Revolution, shortly after the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty. Drawing on personal archives and 8mm archival recordings of strangers’ lives, she contrasts moments of private joy with public defiance to show lives of women under the regimented oppression in Tehran. |
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Muslim in AmericaDir. Deeyah Khan In this Peabody Award-winning exposé, director Deeyah Khan uses her uniquely intimate filming style to investigate the rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes in the U.S. |
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Bye Bye TiberiasDir. Lina Soualem Years after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Emmy-nominated Hiam Abbass (SUCCESSION, RAMY, BLADE RUNNER) returns home with her daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation. |
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The JudgeDir. Erika Cohn Peabody Award winner and Emmy nominated THE JUDGE provides rare insight into Shari’a law, an often-misunderstood legal framework for Muslims, told through the eyes of the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East’s religious courts. |
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MarianneDir. Valentina Canavesio Set in the context of France’s laïcité, (France’s version of secularism), MARIANNE follows seven Muslim women challenging bans on wearing hijabs, headscarfs, face coverings, and abayas at school and in public. |
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A Revolution in Four SeasonsDir. Jessie Deeter The Tunisian Revolution sparked the Arab Spring. But revolution was the easy part—as two women learned on the journey from protest to functioning government. |
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Feminism InshallahDir. Feriel Ben Mahmoud The struggle for Muslim women’s emancipation is often portrayed stereotypically as a showdown between Western and Islamic values, but Arab feminism has existed for more than a century. |
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A Thousand Girls Like MeDir. Sahra Mani The story of a young Afghan woman’s brave fight for justice after experiencing years of abuse at the hands of her father. |
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In the Rumbling Belly of the MotherlandDir. Brishkay Ahmed Filmed as the U.S. planned for its September 2021 withdrawal of troops, IN THE RUMBLING BELLY OF MOTHERLAND documents an inspiring female-led news agency in Kabul, Afghanistan. |
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