The Culturist Film Club: An Incomplete Calendar on October 2
On Friday, October 2, The Culturist Film Club will be hosted at Alserkal Arts Foundation’s Project Space for the screening of An Incomplete Calendar by Sanaz Sohrabi.
The film premiered at Cinéma du Réel in March this year where it won two awards (First Film Loridan-Ivens Award and Gncr–Young Jury Award), and since then it has be screened at multiple international film festivals and won a couple of more awards.
This screening is supported by Alserkal Arts Foundation.
Date: Friday, October 2 at 7:00pm
Location: Alserkal Arts Foundation, Project Space, Alserkal Avenue (Warehouse 51)
Free to attend, registration link to be added here soon.
AN INCOMPLETE CALENDAR
Sanaz Sohrabi, 2026, 77 min
A little-known 1980 vinyl is the starting point of this film. “Rhymes and Songs for OPEC” is a special record by the Central University of Venezuela’s concert choir to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Layered on songs and rarely seen archives, the film reframes oil not as commodity but as a political leverage for the liberation struggles in Palestine and building Pan-Arab solidarity between 1960-1970.
This is the final episode of a trilogy of essay films by Sanaz Sohrabi that unpack the relationship between political economy of images, archival technologies, and visual cultures of resource extraction in Iran and broader West Asia.
“An exhaustive and artistically fulfilling, essayistic documentary about a region’s struggle for autonomy and solidarity.” — Marc van de Klashorst, International Cinephile Society
Awards:
First Film Loridan-Ivens Award & GNCR – Young Jury Award (Cinéma du Réel International Documentary Film Festival, France, 2026)
Best Feature Film / International Competition (Olhar do Cinema Curitiba International Film Festival, Brazil, 2026)
Best Feature Film / International Competition (Pesaro Film Festival, Italy, 2026)
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Sanaz Sohrani who will join us online and moderated by me.
About Sanaz Sohrabi:
A researcher of visual culture and artist-filmmaker based in Montréal, working on visual histories of resource sovereignty and post-colonial ecologies from the Global South. Her films and installations have been shown and awarded in various festivals and biennials including, Berlinale, IFFR, Ljubljana Biennial (2023), and Museum of Contemporary Art Montréal (MAC). Her first documentary feature “An Incomplete Calendar” (2026) premiered at Cinema du Réel, where it won the Loridan-Ivens first feature and the Young Jury award.
