UnionDocs is proud to host a screening of filmmaker Aida El-Kashef’s The Day I Ate the Fish this coming Tuesday in partnership with ArteEast – they write:
Join us Tuesday, August 7, 7pm at UnionDocs for an evening with Egyptian filmmaker Aida ElKashef, in conversation with Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division. The evening will feature a sneak preview of Aida ElKashef’s “The Day I Ate The Fish,” the feature documentary in-progress revisits stories of women behind bars in Egypt’s infamous women’s prison, Al Qanater, convicted of murdering their husbands. The evening will include a screening of ElKashef’s activist video work with Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment (OpAntiSH), active in Egypt during the revolution to combat sexual harrassment and sexual assaults of female protestors in Tahrir Square.
This program is part of ArteHub 2018
Beer lovingly provided for the reception by Brooklyn Brewery
