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Past Film/Video | Visiting Filmmakers | Documentaries
Rita Baghdadi in person
Midwest Premiere
$7 members and seniors $9 general public $5 students
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Meet the defiant and dazzling women of the Middle East’s first all-female thrash metal band in this engaging documentary introduced by director Rita Baghdadi.
A magnetic coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Lebanese revolution, Sirens focuses on the band Slave to the Sirens and its founders and guitarists, Lilas Mayassi and Shery Bechara. Defying expectations of gender and sexuality, the pair attempt to navigate keeping the band together and remaining friends after their romantic relationship ended.
Even if you’ve never thrown the “sign of the horns” gesture at a metal concert, it’s hard not to be charmed by the band’s bravery as they contend with countless ups and downs, both personally and professionally, as well as violence and unrest, in their pursuit of becoming rock stars. Executive produced by Natasha Lyonne and Maya Rudolph. In Arabic and English with English subtitles. (78 mins., DCP)
Rita Baghdadi founded Lady & Bird, a female-run documentary production company focused on stories from underrepresented voices, with Camilla Hall and Jennifer Tiexiera. Hall joins us in person for her film Subject, screening October 27.
See the complete Unorthodocs 22 lineup.
IMAGE CAPTION Sirens, image courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories.
Unorthodocs 2022 is organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts and curated by Chris Stults, Associate Curator of Film/Video.
SUPPORT FOR UNORTHODOCS 22 PROVIDED BY FotoFocus
FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY Cardinal Health
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Rohauer Collection Foundation
WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY Greater Columbus Arts Council The Wexner Family National Endowment for the Arts Ohio Arts Council L Brands Foundation The Columbus Foundation Nationwide Foundation Institute of Museum and Library Services Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Mike and Paige Crane Axium Packaging CampusParc Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams President Kristina M. Johnson and Mrs. Veronica Meinhard Nancy Kramer Larry and Donna James Lisa Barton Johanna DeStefano Jones Day Alex and Renée Shumate
Past Film/Video
Sirens
