January 3 - January 10, 2026 Kaouther Ben Hania: An American Cinematheque Retrospective Series | FOUR DAUGHTERS, THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN, THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB
ABOUT THE SERIES: The American Cinematheque welcomes Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania in-person for a retrospective of her groundbreaking filmography and a screening of her newest film, THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB. Formally audacious and emotionally devastating, the film recreates the final hours of five-year-old Hind Rajab. The film builds on Ben Hania’s highly acclaimed body of experimental, interrogative work that confronts memory, complicity and the question of whose story gets to be told. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, Ben Hania’s FOUR DAUGHTERS employs a hybrid of documentary and fiction techniques to tell the heartrending story of Olfa Hamrouni and her family. Professional actors stand in for the two eldest daughters—as they have left their family to join the Islamic State in Libya. Inspired by Wim Delvoye’s living art piece Tim, Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated satirical drama THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN follows a young Syrian refugee living in Lebanon. Hoping to join his fiancée in Brussels, he agrees to have his back tattooed with a Schengen Area visa, turning him from a person into a work of art though he soon realizes that it may have cost him his freedom. Join us as we celebrate one of the strongest voices in contemporary cinema.