Leila and the Wolves + The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived

The legendary films of Lebanese filmmaker Heiny Srour, a body of searing feminist revolutionary works depicting the Middle East in the 70s and 80s, come to BAM in new restorations. Combining fictional drama, archival footage, and fantasy sequences, Leila and the Wolves follows a young Lebanese woman in modern London as she time-travels through the 20th century, observing the place of Arab women in social struggles and anti-colonial movements in Lebanon and Palestine. To make The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived, Srour and her team crossed 500 miles of desert and mountains by foot, under bombardment by the British Royal Air Force, to capture a rare record of a now mostly forgotten war.