Network participant Carrie Tarr curated ‘Beur is beautiful’ film season in New York

In November 2007, Carrie Tarr, an internationally leading scholar on Maghrebi-French filmmaking, curated a retrospective entitled  'BEUR IS BEAUTIFUL: MAGHREBI-FRENCH FILMMAKING' in New York. The film programme, which will go on tour, showcases landmark films such as Tea in the Harem, Cheb, Memories of Immigration as well as more recent releases such as Where the Fig Trees Grow or Voisins, Voisins.         

The launch of the film season was accompanied by a conference in which leading scholars on Maghrebi-French cinema (including Alec G. Hargreaves, Will Higbee, Peter J. Bloom, Sylvie Durmelat and Vinay Swamy) critically reappraised how Maghrebi-French cinema has engaged with issues of identity, globalisatio and memory over the past decades.

To mark this important retrospective, Carrie Tarr and Richard Porton also edited a special supplement on 'Beur is beautiful', which was published in Cineaste in Winter 2007.

For a full programme of films and conference papers see: Beur is beautiful

Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 13 Mar 2008 •