Due to popular demand 🎞️🇵🇸
Leila and the Wolves screenings Institute of Contemporary Arts extended until 15th May

We are deeply saddened by the news that Narcisa Hirsch passed away in the weekend. It was an honour to present her films at the festival just over a week ago, in 2 programmes beautifully curated by Jessica Sarah Rinland. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.

'Leila and the Wolves 40th anniversary: Heiny Srour on her time-travelling tale of Arab womanhood'
Interview by Elhum Shakerifar for BFI
bfi.org.uk/interviews/lei…

Please read the brilliant text by Nadia Yahlom from Sarha Collective written in response to the film. Commissioned by Open City Documentary Festival

Following its screening at the closing night of Open City Documentary Festival, the ICA is hosting a week of screenings of Heiny Srour's Leila and the Wolves (1984) in a new restoration!

And that’s a wrap on the 2024 festival!

Thank you to every single audience member, filmmaker, panellist, speaker, volunteer, projectionist, partner, sponsor and our amazing festival team.

See you next year ❤️‍🔥

Monday at Open City:
1️⃣ A T A P E takeover day
2️⃣ elena gorfinkel’s 5th Grandma’s Grammar programme w/ Q&A
3️⃣ Akerman & Hirsch presented by Jessica Sarah Rinland
4️⃣ The 9th Non-Aligned Film Archives programme by Annabelle Aventurin & Leá Morin

It’s a full house at Close-Up Cinema for Jessica Sarah Rinland presenting a double bill of films by Narcisa Hirsch and Chantal Akerman

Day 6 of the festival brings plenty more to check out all over town!

Sunday at Open City:
1️⃣+2️⃣ Our surveys of Jessica Sarah Rinland & Simon Liu ended
3️⃣ Combined Programme: I am Writing brought Ann Carolin Renninger, Beatrice Gibson & Maria Anastassiou to Genesis Cinema
4️⃣ elena gorfinkel’s Grandma’s Grammar continued with 2 Naomi Uman films on 16mm

Filmmakers Ann Carolin Renninger, Beatrice Gibson and Maria Anastassiou took part in a Q&A following the screening of their films together in Combined Programme: I Am Writing Genesis Cinema

Jessica Sarah Rinland introducing the second programme in our retrospective of her work earlier this evening BerthaDocHouse

Zhang Mengqi’s performance lecture reflecting on the evolution of her 47km films and the Folk Memory Project, through dance, gesture and moving image Rich Mix

Our In Focus: Simon Liu programme comes to an end Institute of Contemporary Arts with a programme including live projection performances, with Liu manipulating 4 16mm projectors in the auditorium

Our first talk of the day brought together Pablo Alvarez-Mesa, Louis Henderson & Shambhavi Kaul for a discussion on landscape in moving image, moderated by Raquel Schefer

Margaret Salmon sat down with our In Focus artist Jessica Sarah Rinland where they reflected on personal filmmaking practices and cinematography 🔥

Every year Open City commissions a filmmaker previously screened at the festival to create the trailer for the following edition.

Filmmaker Rhea Storr spoke with us about the context, shooting process and future plans for the 2024 trailer 🎥

➡️ opencitylondon.com/notes/rhea-sto…

Alongside more talks, workshops and screenings, today sees two walks around London, a first for Open City!

Here’s everything happening today:

Saturday at Open City saw:

1️⃣ Funding and filming first features with TheDocSociety & Graeme Arnfield
2️⃣ Julie Morel & Annik Leroy’s LA FORCE DIAGONALE
3️⃣ Folk Memory Project 2: MOUNTAIN VILLAGE
4️⃣ 315 & ARTISTES EN ZONE TROUBLÉS w/ Positive East

➕ much more!

Before our screening of LA FORCE DIAGONALE, we were joined by the Delegation of Flanders to the UK & Ireland who have generously supported the presentation of Flemish works in our programme to hear more about the creative opportunities available in Brussels & across Flanders