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The Last Queen

(co-directed by Adila Bendimerad & Damien Ounouri)

Part of CINECITY 2023, this film screening will be followed by Q&A with Damien Ounouri and Martin Evans, Professor Of Modern European History at the University of Sussex.

“sumptuous period costumes and sets, well-choreographed fight sequences and strong-willed female characters” CineEuropa

Algeria, 1516. The pirate Aruj Barbarossa frees Algiers from Spanish tyranny but then seizes power over the kingdom. Against all odds, one woman stands up to him - Queen Zaphira – in a remarkable story of personal and political resistance.

Organised by Professor Martin Evans for the Resistance Studies Network at the University of Sussex as part of CINECITY.

About CINECITY

For two weeks every November, CINECITY brings the best in world cinema to Brighton and the South Coast with a festival programme of premieres and previews, artists’ cinema and installations, treasures from the archive, live soundtracks, talks and special events. Described by The Guardian as ‘eclectic and imaginative’, CINECITY also explores ideas around the ‘cinematic’, the space where different practices including music, visual arts, photography, storytelling, literature, design and digital culture, can converge.