We are thrilled to present three films by the great Lebanese feminist auteur Heiny Srour, including a sneak preview of her work-in-progress epilogue to The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived.Followed by a conversation with the filmmaker, moderated by Ginou Choueiri, Executive Director of Arte East.
Date: October 17, 2025 at 7pm
Ticket Price: $17
Address: Peter Jay Sharp Building, Bam Rose Cinemas
Tickets: Here
This screening is part of the series Where Do We Go Now?: Lebanese Women in Film presented at BAM from Oct. 17–23, 2025.
The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived (1974), 62 min.
Arabic with English subtitles
In her bold 1974 work, Srour details the story of a democratic, feminist guerrilla movement involved in the late-60s uprising of Dhofar against the British-backed Sultanate of Oman. Srour’s courageous documentary was the first film directed by an Arab woman ever to screen at Cannes
The Singing Sheikh (1991), 11 min.
Arabic with English subtitles
Famous throughout the Arab world for his political folk songs, Sheikh Imam Mohammed Ahmad Eissa was considered a voice of the oppressed. Despite being banned from state television and radio, and imprisoned numerous times, the Sheikh always believed that “if a beautiful thing is suppressed today, it will rise tomorrow.”
Filmmaker Bio:
Born in Beirut in 1945, Lebanese filmmaker Heiny Srour studied Sociology at the French University of Beirut before pursuing Social Anthropology at the Sorbonne in Paris. During this time, she was deeply influenced by the ethnographic films of Jean Rouch, which sparked her interest in filmmaking. While working as a journalist and film critic, she became drawn to Third World cinema and the role of Arab women in revolutionary movements. Throughout her career, Srour has used film as a powerful tool to explore themes of resistance and liberation for women across the Middle East. Her groundbreaking documentary The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived (1974) was selected for the Cannes Film Festival, making her the first Arab woman filmmaker to receive international recognition.
Co-presented with BAM and Several Futures
