Yasmin Fedda - An Ethnographic Eye
An Ethnographic Eye celebrates the unique voice of director Yasmin Fedda, placing her latest, deeply resonant feature on forcible disappearances in Syria, Ayouni (2020, 85 mins), in the context of fifteen years of insightful, whole-hearted filmmaking.
The earliest film in this collection, Milking the Desert (2004, 25 mins) finds two monks of different denominations and different nationalities in Syria; Breadmakers (2007, 11 mins) meets a group of workers with learning disabilities in an Edinburgh bakery; Queens of Syria (2014, 70 mins) follows women who have fled Syria for Jordan staging an ancient Greek tragedy about the plight of women in war. Yasmin Fedda's films bring marginalised, unseen and unexpected communities and individuals into view, making for a body of work rich in both empathy and insight.
Yasmin Fedda is an award winning filmmaker and artist. her films have been BAFTA-nominated and screened at numerous international festivals including Sundance and Edinburgh. Yasmin has held artist residences at the Mothlight Micro Cinema, Detroit, and at British School at Rome, Italy. She is a lecturer in Film Practice at Queen Mary University, London where she is also the co-convenor for the Centre for Film and Ethics.
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Ayouni - Trailer
Dir. Yasmin Fedda - 75min - 2020 - UK, Qatar
Noura and Machi search for answers about their loved ones – Bassel Safadi and Paolo Dall’Oglio, who are among the over 100,000 forcibly disappeared in Syria.
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Ayouni
Dir. Yasmin Fedda - 75min - 2020 - Syria, UK
Noura and Machi search for answers about their loved ones – Bassel Safadi and Paolo Dall’Oglio, who are among the over 100,000 forcibly disappeared in Syria. Faced with the limbo of an overwhelming absence of information, hope is the only thing they h...
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A Tale of Two Syrias
Dir. Yasmin Fedda - 64 mins - 2012 - UK, Syria
Salem is an Iraqi fashion designer in Damascus. Botrus lives a remote existence in a hillside monastery. This consistently insightful and unexpected documentary offers a unique perspective on what the dream of freedom means to two very different peo...
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Milking the Desert
Dir. Yasmin Fedda - 25min - 2004
Frederic came from France to become a novice at the St. Moses Abyssinian monastery in the desert of Syria. We follow him and Syrian monk Boutrous through their daily chores and routines: milking goats, making cheese and praying. Their lives create a backdrop for ...
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Breadmakers
Dir. Yasmin Fedda - 11min - 2007 - UK
At a unique Edinburgh bakery, a community of workers with learning disabilities makes a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to shops and cafes in the city .The Garvald Bakery is part of a centre inspired by the ideas of Rudolph Steiner where the wor...
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A letter to my mother in the year 1980
Dir. Yasmin Fedda - 2015
Miriam al Attar wrote a poetic letter to her mother, before she was born, and before her mother was exiled from Iraq.
(translated by Nia Davies)
Part of a series of films featuring poetry and translation by UK and Iraqi based writers, made with Highlight Arts.
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In the year ninety
Dir. Yasmin Fedda - 2015
In 1990 the images of the first Gulf War created a deep impression on the then young Nia Davies.
Translation by Ahmad Abdul Hussein
Part of a series of films featuring poetry and translation by UK and Iraqi based writers, made with Highlight Arts.
