Join Ali Lalfam, an MFA student in Film Curation and Programming at the National Film and Television School, for the screening of Lost, Banned, Reclaimed, a season he has curated at the ICA in partnership with NFTS, running from 19 November to 12 December.
The season includes Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Night of Counting the Years (1969), his only feature as a director and one of the landmarks of Egyptian cinema. Set in Upper Egypt in 1881, it follows a young man who discovers his tribe has survived by secretly looting the tombs of Thebes, and asks who has the right to claim, sell or protect a nation’s past. The film was restored by Cineteca di Bologna and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, in association with the Egyptian Film Center. The screening on Wednesday 9 December will be introduced by the producer and curator Elhum Shakerifar.