Monday | November 28, 2005 7:00 pm

Wesh Wesh, What's Happening?
(Wesh wesh, qu'est-ce qui se passe?)

Screening on Film

Directed by Rabah Ameur Zaïmeche .
With Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Ahmed Hammoudi, Brahim Ameur-Zaïmeche.
France, 2001, 35mm, color, 83 min.
French and Arabic with English subtitles.

Rabah Ameur Zaïmeche directs and stars in his debut feature film, which was feted at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival and the European Film Awards. He portrays Kamel, an ex-convict who returns to his old Paris neighborhood after serving a five-year prison sentence. He struggles to establish a straight life but the pressures of urban poverty become too much for him and his family.

September 26 – December 12, 2005

Contemporary French Cinema

September 1–October 14

Música de Câmara. The Cinema of Rita Azevedo Gomes

September 4–December 15

From the Harvard Film Archive Collection …

October 6–7

People and their Virtue. Two Films by Wang Bing

October 8–28

Trenque Lauquen by Laura Citarella

October 16–29

I Heard It Through the Grapevine with James Baldwin

October 20–November 11

Filmmaker, Guest Worker: Zelimir Zilnik’s Expatriates

October 30

Adachi Masao’s Revolution+1

November 3–December 3

Out of the Ashes – The US-ROK Security Alliance & the Emergence of South Korean Cinema

November 6–13

Songs of Love and Loss. Elvira Notari’s Cinematic Realism