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Unsettling (15*) + ScreenTalk with director Iris Zaki

,Barbican Cinema 2
A group doing yoga in the open air.

An innovative documentary draws out the insights of a West Bank community on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With its creator, Dr Iris Zaki, in conversation.

Grierson Award-winner Dr Iris Zaki sets up a pop-up film studio in Tekoa, an Israeli settlement on the West Bank where none of the residents are keen to talk to the media. Her simple provocation proves both artistic and impactful in enabling a non-prescriptive conversation with its inhabitants.

Making clear that her political views do not align with theirs, Zaki poses some difficult questions and is confronted with some equally difficult but also surprising responses.

A fresh cinematic insight into the long lasting Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this documentary is somewhere between an artistic practice and political activism, unsettling viewers and views alike.

To follow, Iris is in conversation with Head of Cinema Gali Gold.

Tagged with: Cinema ScreenTalks

Unsettling has screened at BFI London Film Festival, CPH:DOX, DOK.fest München and others, receiving a Special Mention for Best Feature Documentary at the SIMA Awards and a nomination at the One World Media Awards.

Israel UK 2018 Iris Zaki 70 min

  • Dr. Iris Zaki  

Dr. Iris Zaki is a Grierson Award winning documentary filmmaker who uses quirky first-person narratives to depict communities. She finished her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, which explored her own innovative interviewing technique: The Abandoned Camera. Her previous film, Women in Sink, screened at over 150 festivals and received 13 awards. Her films have also been featured on TV and the New York Times.

  • Gali Gold  

Gali Gold is Head of Cinema at the Barbican Centre. She has worked at the Barbican as Film Curator since 2012, and prior to this was Head of Programming at the Birds Eye Film Festival and Artistic Director of the UK Jewish Film Festival.  She has been a lecturer in film and media studies, a film conference convenor, Director of the Jerusalem Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Associate Producer of the Jerusalem International Film Festival and Producer of Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival.

Barbican Cinema 2

Location
Barbican Cinema 2 & 3 are located on Beech Street, a short walk from the Barbican’s Silk Street entrance. From Silk Street, you’ll see a zebra crossing that will take you across the road to the venue. 

Address
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