Jameel’s Summer Cinema, in collaboration with The Culturist Film Club presents a lively season of films, inviting audiences to cool down, slow down, and gather indoors for four curated screening nights at Jameel Arts Centre.

Taking place over the summer months, the programme delves into stories about cities, archives, and the ways we live and remember together, plus a special nod to the visionary world of David Lynch.

Each screening will include informal talks with filmmakers, artists, and special guests as we unpack the themes together. Audiences are encouraged to engage in collective viewing, stay for the discussion, and enjoy food and refreshments available throughout the evening.

Screenings are free to attend. Registration is required.
To learn more about the screenings, please follow the links below.

June 21 – Cities, Cinema and People
Behind the Sun (Bentley Brown, 2023, USA, 17 min)
Cairo, As Told By Chahine (Youssef Chahine, 1991, Egypt, 23 min)

July 5 – In Memory of David Lynch
A selection of works by David Lynch (60 min)

July 19 – Rematerialising the Archive
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing (Theo Panagopoulos, 2024, UK, 17 min)
Scenes of Extraction (Sanaz Sohrabi, 2023, Canada, Iran, 43 min)

August 2 – Home and Homecoming
Why is My Grandfather’s Bed in Our Living Room? (Sarah Alhashimi, 2021, UAE, 7 min)
Practical Dreams (Yulia Piskuliyska, 2019, UAE, 9 min)
The Tobacconist (Keifer Nyron Taylor, 2024, UK, 22 min)
Tender Loving Care (Kalina Pulit, 2023, UK, 20 min)

Curated by Hind Mezaina, founder of The Culturist Film Club.

Hind Mezaina is an artist, film curator and writer from Dubai. Her interests lie in cinema, cities, visual culture, collective memory and archives. As an artist she works primarily in analogue photography and lately with moving image. As a film curator, she has programmed screenings for local institutions including National Pavilion UAE, NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Sharjah Art Foundation, The Africa Institute, Alliance Française Dubai, and Jameel Arts Centre. In 2024, Mezaina was included in Screen International’s Future Leaders 2024: Film Festival Programmers and Curators to Watch.  In 2009 she founded The Culturist blog, and in 2022 she started The Culturist Film Club hosted at various venues across Dubai.
www.hindmezaina.com

Image: Still from Cairo, As Told By Chahine (Youssef Chahine, 1991)