Sirât

Borders and Belonging

As US immigration policy comes under greater scrutiny and international wars involving territorial aggression continue, this is a moment to bring into dialogue films that share unique perspectives on the broader issues involved in enforcing national boundaries. 

The series includes stories about people crossing borders in pursuit of something essential to their happiness, an AI griot teaching decolonization workshops through voguing, comedies that hinge on visa problems, landmark classics about the impact of colonialism, and urgent films touching on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Together these films paint a picture of how borders relate to the cultivation of national pride, the cost of maintaining those borders, and the shared human need for belonging that supersedes them.

3/30 Assembly
4/4 Lawrence of Arabia
4/4 Problemista
4/7 And Along Come Tourists
4/11 The Battle of Algiers
4/19 Sirât
4/23 The Voice of Hind Rijab
4/30 Pillion
5/1 Touki Bouki
5/14 Mr. Nobody Against Putin
5/21 Casablanca
5/22 Cycle of Love

Borders and Belonging

Spring Films