When Arabs Danced

(festival title)
  • Belgium Au temps où les Arabes dansaient
Belgium, 2018, 84 min

Directed by:

Jawad Rhalib

Screenplay:

Jawad Rhalib

Composer:

Simon Fransquet

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In this winner of Best Film and Audience Award at Visions du Réel, filmmaker Jawad Rhalib documents diverse creative voices in the Muslim world - including his mother, a Moroccan dancer - who seek to free themselves from bonds of stereotypes and repression. The film forgoes conventional artist-profile tropes in favor of a weave of rehearsals, conversations, performances and a trove of archival materials that remind us of the long and often sensual history of dance and music found throughout the Arab world. (DOC NYC)

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