upcoming: Friday, September 26
Screening Series: In a Displaced World
A film series highlighting cinematic engagements with forced displacement, border regimes, and the political economies of migration. The films move beyond humanitarian lenses to reframe the so-called migration “crisis.”
EV 1.615 | September 26, 2025 | 6–9 PM
Screening 1 – Short Films by Mahdi Fleifel
- Xenos (Denmark/Greece/UK, 2013)
- A Man Returned (Denmark/Lebanon/Netherlands/UK, 2016)
- A Drowning Man (Denmark/Greece/UK, 2017)
- 3 Logical Exits (Denmark/Lebanon/UK, 2020)
Facilitator: Farah Atoui
Farah Atoui is a cultural organizer and a media scholar specializing in contemporary film, video, and visual culture with a focus on moving-image practices from the Arab world. Atoui’s work explores artistic interventions produced under conditions of struggle and duress—war, occupation, colonization, crisis, displacement– as both tools and spaces for resistance, as well as sites for critical knowledge production that re-energize solidarity and decolonial imaginaries. She holds a PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University, where her doctoral research examined post-2011 experimental Syrian documentaries as countervisualizations to the representational regime of the refugee “crisis.” She held a postdoctoral position at Concordia's Communication Studies Department, in affiliation with the Feminist Media Studio. She is an independent curator and film programmer, and a member of the Regards Palestiniens and Regards Syriens screening collectives.