Arabic, French with English subtitles

The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who was born in the Galilee in 1942 and died in exile in 2008, is one of the great poets of the twentieth century. This film, completed in 1997, is part of the collection A Century of Writers, broadcast on French public television as the year 2000 approached. As the Land Is the Language… shares the emotion born from the words of Darwish, from his voice and his inimitable poetic cadence – permitting the audience to access his work in its historic and cultural context. Darwish is filmed in the places of his life, his exiles and his poems: airports, hotel rooms, apartments and cafes. The film includes interviews in which he speaks about his work, and is interspersed with exceptional moments recorded over numerous recitals.

Followed by a reading and conversation with Haytham El-Wardany (in English).

• Sektion Section: Artist in Focus. Marwa Arsanios
• Programm Programme: Programme 6