Screen/Society--Reel Women Directors of the Middle-East [Lebanon]--"Where Do We Go Now?"

Monday, October 3, 2016 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Screen/Society--Reel Women Directors of the Middle-East [Lebanon]--"Where Do We Go Now?"

Film Screening:

Where Do We Go Now? 

(Nadine Labaki, 2012, 100 min, France, Lebanon, Egypt, Italy, in Arabic, Russian, English w/ English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray) 

-- Introduced by Prof. Didem Havlioğlu (AMES); Q&A to follow!

Set in a remote village where the church and the mosque stand side by side, Where Do We Go Now? follows the antics of the town's women to keep their blowhard men from starting a religious war. Women heartsick over sons, husbands and fathers lost to previous flare-ups unite to distract their men with clever ruses, from faking a miracle to hiring a troop of Ukrainian strippers.

-- Critics' Choice Movie Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film!

 

-- Winner of People's Choice Award at Toronto International Film Festival!

"This spirited troupe of women ... makes us citizens of the village, invested in their joys and fears. We grieve with them, under that burning sun, and hope with them for a lasting peace." -- Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times 

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Sponsors: The Duke University Middle East Studies Center (DUMESC), AMES Presents, the Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and Duke University Libraries.

White 107 (White Lecture Hall)