A Door to the Sky (Une porte sur le ciel), Farida Benlyazid, 1989, 107 min.
In French and Moroccan Arabic with English subtitles
Screening followed by a Q&A with Director Farida Benylazid, Florence Martin, and Madeleine Dobie

Please join for a screening of Moroccan filmmaker Farida Benylazid’s newly-restored 1989 film A Door to the Sky, the first feature film directed by a Moroccan woman. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the director led by film scholar Florence Martin and Columbia Professor Madeleine Dobie.

A Door to the Sky imagines an emigrant’s return to Morocco, where she creates, in her family home, a zaouiya – a site devoted to spiritual study and worship – specifically for women. The film explores themes of exile and return as well as questions of gender and religion, probing the intersections of feminism and Muslim faith.

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