ArteEast Presents "My Father and Qaddafi" at BAM

OBLIVION: Forced Disappearance, Memory, Absence, and Political Erasure — an Unpacking the ArteArchive program curated by Laila Sharif (NNAAC Fellow), featuring works by Jihan K, Ghassan Halwani, Akram Zaatari, Habiba Djahnine, Argyro Nicolaou, and Muhannad Lamin. This film program examines forced disappearance as a political strategy and enduring lived reality across the SWANA region, centering testimony, memory, and visual absence as counterpoints to state violence and historical erasure. Co-presented by ArteEast and BAM, it is part of the legacy program Unpacking the ArteArchive, which preserves and presents 20 years of ArteEast film and video programming. ─────────────────────────── 🎞 IN-PERSON SCREENING Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2026 at 7pm Venue: BAM, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217 Tickets: $17 → https://www.bam.org/film/2026/my-father-and-qaddafi Program: • My Father and Qaddafi (Jihan K, 2025) — 88 mins Followed by a conversation with Anas El Gomati, moderated by curator Laila Sharif ─────────────────────────── 💻 ONLINE SCREENING Dates: June 18–28, 2026 Available worldwide | FREE / $5 suggested donation RSVP: artearchive.org Full Program: • My Father and Qaddafi (Jihan K, 2025) — 88 mins • Erased, Ascent of the Invisible (Ghassan Halwani, 2018) — 74 mins • All Is Well On the Border (Akram Zaatari, 1997) — 40 mins • Letter to My Sister / Lettre à ma sœur (Habiba Djahnine, 2006) — 68 mins • Screen Recording 2020-11-20 at 1.59.44 PM (Argyro Nicolaou, 2020) — 10 mins • Prisoner and Jailer (Muhannad Lamin, 2019) — 15 mins