For Episode 10 of our Cinematic Dialogs series, writer and curator Rasha Salti will speak with director Heiny Srour about her cinematic work, and the recent restoration and re-release of her seminal feature Leila and the Wolves (1984).
Heiny Srour is a film director from Lebanon. Born in 1945, Heiny first studied Social Anthropology in Paris and later worked as a journalist and film critic. Her areas of focus include Third World cinema and the role of women in revolutionary struggle, often leading her to make films under dangerous circumstances. She is a pioneer of women’s cinema, and was the first Arab woman to have a film chosen for the Cannes Film Festival, with The Hour of Liberation has Arrived in 1974.
Rasha Salti is an independent writer and curator of art and film. She lives and works between Beirut and Berlin. Salti co-curated many film programs at public institutions, including ArteEast, Lincoln Center and Museum of Modern Art in New York, and collaborated with film festivals as a programmer, such as the Abu Dhabi International Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival. Since 2017, she is the commissioning editor for La Lucarne at ArteFrance, a program dedicated to Auteur documentaries.
