Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Ave, New York
Thursday, August 3, 2023
7 pm

Join us for the second installment of our recurring film series at Anthology Film Archives, where we will be hosting a screening of French-Tunisian filmmaker Nadia El-Fani’s low-budget hacker drama, Bedwin Hacker (2003).

Nadia El Fani
Bedwin Hacker
2003, 99 min, 35mm-to-digital. In Arabic and French with English subtitles.
In this campy millennium cyber-thriller, culture jamming hacker Kalt, AKA “Bedwin Hacker,” hijacks European television stations from her Tunisian mountain hideout. With the help of her motley crew of freedom-loving poets, queers, and musicians, she broadcasts cryptic political messages delivered by a cartoon camel. Meanwhile, a French intelligence agent named Julia relentlessly pursues the elusive pirate, with whom she shares multiple romantic entanglements, past and present…