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Content warning: jump scares, blood, mysterious figure, implied death.\r\nReligious content: Verbal religious invocations. \r\n\r\n- - -\r\n\r\nEnmity Djinn | 2023 | 19 mins | Mauritania\r\nDirected by Mohamed Echkouna\r\n\r\nBased on local Mauritanian djinn folktales, the story follows an elderly woman confronting an ancient, malevolent djinn that haunted her childhood and brings out the worst in human beings. \r\nMohamed Echkouna is a filmmaker and VFX Technical Director from Mauritania. His passion for film and belief in its power to guide emotions and reshape perspectives within and about African cultures are the main drivers of his career. He co-wrote and directed Enmity Djinn for Netflix & UNESCO\u2019s \u201cAfrican Folktales Reimagined\u201d anthology. 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In true Lovecraftian fashion, the ritual goes awry\u2013she can no longer unsee what she now sees, she can no longer un-hear what she now hears, and things will never be the same again.\r\n\r\nAmal Al-Agroobi is a London-based Arab filmmaker who comes from a biomedical sciences and neurosciences background. Her passion lies in social, character-driven stories that discuss identity and social injustice, often in the context of science fiction. Al-Agroobi\u2019s film career began in 2012 when her short documentary HALF EMIRATI premiered at the Dubai Film Festival. She followed up in 2013 with a feature documentary about autism, disability, and special needs in the Middle East titled THE BRAIN THAT SINGS, which won the People\u2019s Choice Award at the Dubai International Film Festival and changed government legislation in the UAE, creating positive social impact for special needs children in education. 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Nasser, however, feels increasingly trapped in this No Man\u2019s Land. With nowhere to escape, boiling tensions in the camp push Nasser to another reality. Highly experimental filmmaking.\r\n\r\nDirector Noaz Deshe works as a director and musician. He composed the soundtrack of Babak Jalali\u2019s FRONTIER BLUES (2009), and was the cinematographer of the Tiger winner RADIO DREAMS (2016). His debut feature film WHITE SHADOW (2013) about a young albino person won the Lion of the Future Award at Venice Film Festival and was showcased at Sundance Film Festival. XOFTEX (2024) is his second feature film, selected for FilmFest M\u00fcnchen. In addition to his artistic work, he has worked as a volunteer on sea rescue missions and in refugee camps.\r\n\r\nHalaloween Horror Rating: 2\/5 Pumpkins \r\n\r\nRating explanation: Not very scary, but eerie, experimental, and suspenseful. Purposefully experimental to capture the difficulty of being in a refugee camp. 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Dr. Rahimi analyzes Moharram in Iran through the five senses\u2014sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste\u2014highlighting how religious practices function as evolving embodied experiences. Senses of Mourning illuminates the changing embodied dimensions of religious practice and situates Moharram rituals within the broader sociopolitical and global transformations of Shi\u02bfi Iran\u2013an especially important site of study in the current time of conflict.\n \n \n Meet the speaker:\n \n Dr. Babak Rahimi is Professor of Culture, Religion, and Technology at the University of California, San Diego. He is also Director of the Program for the Study of Religion and Director of the Middle East Studies Program. Rahimi\u2019s first monograph, *Theater-State and the Formation of the Early Modern Public Sphere in Iran: Studies on Safavid Muharram Rituals, 1590\u20131641 C.E. *(Brill, 2011), offers a historical-sociological exploration of the interplay between public rituals, state power, and social dynamics in the Safavid era.\n \n His latest book, *Senses of Mourning: Moharram Performances in Shi\u2018i Iran from the Qajar to the Covid Era *(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026), examines the role of sensory religion in Iranian historical contexts. Rahimi is also the editor of *Theatre in the Middle East: Between Performance and Politics* (Anthem Press, 2020) and *Performing Iran: Culture, Performance, Theatre *(I.B. Tauris, 2021). In addition, he co-edited *Social Media in Iran* (with David Faris, SUNY Press, 2015), *The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam* (with Armando Salvatore and Roberto Tottoli, Wiley Blackwell, 2018), and *Muslim Pilgrimage in the Modern World* (with Peyman Eshaghi, University of North Carolina Press, 2019).\n \n His research focuses on the intersections of culture, religion, and technology, with particular attention to the historical and social contexts of early modern Islamicate societies and the Global South.\n\nThe University of Pennsylvania Press is offering a 30% press discount on Dr. Rahimi's book to our audience members and friends with the code PENN-RAHIMI30. 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