“BORROWING A FAMILY ALBUM” BY THE EGYPTIAN FILMMAKER TAMER EL SAID IS SELECTED BY BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL
Award-winning Egyptian director Tamer El Said’s video work, “Borrowing a Family Album,” will take part in the 18th edition of the Forum Expanded Programme at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Films and artwork that give fresh perspectives on the relationship between video and reality, as well as the hazy boundaries between documentary and fiction, are highlighted in the programme, which steps outside of cinema as a traditional commercial medium. The “Borrowing a Family Album” initiative by El Said explores the idea of communal recall and the perishability of memory. In order to recapture the memories of a lost sister, the filmmaker created a video installation using private material from another family.
The project will be shown for the first time in the globe alongside 34 films and installations from 20 different nations as part of the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art’s Forum Expanded Programme.
In the Last Days of the City, Tamer El Said’s 2016 debut feature film, which also made its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival and took home the festival’s Caligari Film Award, received numerous honours.
