How Near is this East
Palestine being a short fuse to an extremely explosive powder keg, the Middle-East has been figuring prominently in the political news for decades. This program sheds special light on the role of the film industry and the big news networks in the representation of ‘the East’.

Please Give Me 50 Cents, I Know Where Bin Laden Is
Jiang Zhi (China 2002, video, 4:00 min)

Hostage: the Bachar Tapes
Walid Ra’ad (Lebanon 2000, video, 16:28 min)

Another Worldy
Anouk de Clercq & Leslie Thornton (USA / Belgium 1999, video, 22:00 min)

On the BG Track. 03
Krassimir Terziev (Bulgaria 2002, video, 6:57 min)
The way in which film industry is dealing with the exotic cultures is investigated in a case study focussing on five feature films, which comment in various ways on Bulgarian culture, customs and identity.

Introduction to the End of an Argument
Jayce Salloum & Elia Sulleiman (USA 1990, video, 43:00 min)
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Saturday 30 October, 14.00 hours, ’t Hoogt, Hall 3