The Birds Eye View film festival promises spectacular line up of creative voices from the Arab world.
The 2013 Bird's Eye View film festival, an annual event celebrating women filmmakers, opens in London next month, and this year features the work of women from across the Arab world.
There will be an International Women’s Day gala screening of 'Wadija', Saudi Arabia’s first feature film, from breakthrough female director Haifaa Al Mansour, which tells the story of a rebellious schoolgirl who wants a bicycle, and when her parents refuse, determines to raise the money herself.
Wadjda won multiple awards at the Venice Film Festival for its inspiring, sharply humorous and gently subversive look at a life in modern-day Riyadh.
On 3 April the main film festival, Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers, will have an Opening Night Gala featuring 'When I Saw You' from Palestine's first female feature director, Annemarie Jacir, following a free-spirited young boy escaping from a refugee camp in Jordan in 1967.
Other features include 'Coming Forth by Day', which follows an unmarried woman dutifully caring for her sick father as she tries to escape to a life of her own, and 'On the Edge', which depicts two young women as they plunge into the underside of Moroccan life.
The festival will also feature documentaries such as 'In the Shadow of a Man' exploring recent events in Egypt from a woman’s perspective and 'A Tale of Two Syrias', which looks at the country’s mounting unrest from two very different perspectives.
There will also be a series of short films and special events like Sound and Silents, where modern composers perform their own scores to silent movies, and Fashion Loves Film, this year exploring Middle Eastern fashion past and present.
Birds Eye View founder-director Rachel Millward said: ‘I’m thrilled that in 2013 Birds Eye View will celebrate the work of Arab women filmmakers.
"Now, when Arab women are dominating the headlines at the world's most established film festivals, is the perfect time to shine a light on this increasingly important and diverse range of cinematic voices.’
Bird’s Eye View 2013 takes place on International Women's Week, 7 and 8 March 2013, at the Southbank Centre and BFI Southbank.
The main film festival, Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers, runs from 3-10 April 2013 at the BFI Southbank, the Barbican, the ICA and at Hackney Picturehouse.
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