This Guy Fawkes week, while fireworks echo stories of revolt, join The Sandpit Collective and the University of Sussex for a different kind of resistance. We present Silences of the Palace (1994), Moufida Tlatli’s groundbreaking feminist masterpiece exploring memory, trauma, and voice in postcolonial Tunisia.
Alia returns to the palace where her mother once worked as a concubine, uncovering layers of gendered violence and colonial control. In this haunting space, silence becomes a form of survival, and a legacy passed down.
After the screening, stay for Move the Silence, a gathering with North African music selections that invite you to reflect and move. Through rhythm and conversation, we explore the space between silence and voice, grief and resilience.
Part of Aswaat / Voices, a season exploring feminist and postcolonial cinema from the Maghreb, presented by the Other Asias film programme.