Raised in the Institution of Dreaming
This Isn’t the Future I Ordered: Raised in the Institution of Dreaming
Between Lebanon and Bosnia, two artists with frameworks formed under political and cultural disenchantment come together to deliver a whispery, nerdy, playful, anxious examination of how to use your craft to navigate through a world that feels shockingly empty.
If the world was never really magical at all – why did films make it feel like it was?
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Taymour Boulos
Taymour Boulos is a filmmaker and a teacher based in Lebanon. He studied film directing at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts. He also holds a joint master's degree in documentary filmmaking from Doc Nomads and is an Erasmus Mundus merit scholar. Taymour's Sounds of Weariness (2021) won several awards, including Best Portuguese First Film at Doclisboa 2021, the Silver Eye Award from the Institute of Documentary Film, Best Short Documentary at Breedbeeld 2022, and Best International Essay Film at Cagliari Essay Film in 2023. The film has been screened at over twenty international festivals. His other works include It’s Just Another Dragon (Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2021), Encounters on an Uncertain Spring (YIDFF 2023), A Package and a Crane (2020), and Anything Can Happen Now (2019). Taymour has been teaching cinema at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts since 2021.
Farah Hasanbegović
Farah Hasanbegović is a filmmaker from Bosnia and Herzegovina working in animated documentary. Starting from their own experience growing up in war-torn Bosnia, Farah’s films explore the unique emotional space of post-war transition, exploring audio-visual approaches to untangling from trauma, isolation and uncertainty. Farah draws on a strong connection to their childhood to create whimsical personal films that question the borders of private and civic identity. A graduate of film.factory and Doc Nomads, Farah’s films have screened in competition at Visions du Reel, Sarajevo Film Festival, Ji.hlava, Doclisboa, Zagrebdox, Dokufest and beyond and have qualified for the Academy Awards. In 2023, Farah was a finalist for ZVONO, the most significant award for young Bosnian Herzegovinian visual artists. Farah is currently one of the Programmers of the Future at Eye Filmmuseum.
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Production year
2024
Length
60 min.
Event language
English
Country
NL
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Programmers of the Future 2024
Three new Programmers of the Future will present their film programmes in Eye Filmmuseum this July. With films against despair, a colourful trip through the human psyche through animated films, and cinema that sharpens your senses.
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Programmer of the Future Farah Hasanbegović selected films to watch at home, including Dream of Silk, in which director Nahid Rezai zooms in on the lives of young girls in 2003 Tehran.
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