Name: Marsm x Portsoken Cinema Club
Start: 2025-10-04T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-04T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Portsoken Community Centre

Marsm x Portsoken Cinema Club

Marsm is an events company that promotes the rich and diverse musical cultures of the Arabic-speaking world across the UK.London-based concert producer and organiser for alternative and underground Arab music events in the UK: from hosting some of the biggest names in the region to emboldening the burgeoning underground music scenes, Marsm supports the exceptional creativity and talent of artists across the Arabic-speaking world.With events spanning from hip-hop and rock to Mahraganat, Dabke and Sufi, we challenge the dogmas of cultural production and present an established UK platform for SWANA arts and culture in its original spirit.

MARSM UK

This screening of Ojalá: La Vuelta Al Origen is part of A Season of Arabic Culture, aiming to share culture from the Arabic-speaking world.

Portsoken Community Centre

Ojalá: la vuelta al origen, meaning ' The Return to the Origin' is a remarkable documentary exploring what it means to be a descendant of Palestine in Chile, and how cultural resistance finds life through movement and rhythm. Following Anne Marie Lolas, the daughter of a Palestinian father and a Chilean mother, and a dedicated teacher of bellydance and Dabke in Santiago. The film traces how dance becomes both a bridge between worlds and a steadfast act of remembrance. Through Anne Marie’s eyes, the story unfolds as an intimate conversation on diasporic identity, heritage, and the embodied power of tradition in exile. Directed by Yasmine Benabdallah, a filmmaker and video artist whose work explores memory, performance, diaspora, archives, and rituals.This community screening is a collaboration between <a href="https://marsm.co.uk/" title="https://marsm.co.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Marsm UK</a> and Portsoken Cinema Club, as part of <a href="https://marsm.co.uk/season-of-arabic-culture/" title="https://marsm.co.uk/season-of-arabic-culture/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">A Season of Arabic Culture</a>, aiming to share culture from the Arabic-speaking world to those who live, work and pass through the City of London. Marsm will be joining the Portsoken Cinema Club on the 4th of October.

Please view our programme for A Season of Arabic Culture <a href="https://marsm.co.uk/season-of-arabic-culture/" title="https://marsm.co.uk/season-of-arabic-culture/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.Sign up to our newsletter <a href="https://marsm.us12.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=767a4a4fe52b136cdaf7700d5&amp;id=464334fbeb" title="https://marsm.us12.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=767a4a4fe52b136cdaf7700d5&amp;id=464334fbeb" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.This event is supported by The City of London Corporation's Community Infrastructure Levy Neighbourhood Fund.

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