Public screening and discussion with filmmaker Mary Jirmanus Saba in conversation with Professor Peter Limbrick, author of Arab Modernism as World Cinema (2020). In her directorial debut, Mary Jirmanus Saba deals with a forgotten revolution, saving from oblivion bloodily suppressed strikes at Lebanese tobacco and chocolate factories. These events from the 1970s—which held the promise of a popular revolution and, with it, of women's emancipation—were erased from collective memory by the country’s civil wars. Rich in archival footage from Lebanon’s militant cinema tradition, the film reconstructs the spirit of that revolt, asking of the past how we might transform the present. FIPRESCI International Critics Prize Winner at the 2017 Berlinale Forum.

By request, please wear a mask to this event.

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ADMISSION

- FREE and open to the public.
- General admission, no ticket (first-come, first-served).
- Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time.
- Located in Communications Building Studio C (620 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CA 95064)

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PARKING 

- Lot 139B is the closest parking lot to the event.
- Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces, Medical spaces, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.
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