Bush Mama is an exceptional film by Haile Gerima, deeply influenced by his Ethiopian storyteller grandmother. Gerima was a cinema student in Los Angeles in the 1970s and his film became part of what would retrospectively be labeled the L.A. Rebellion movement. Set in the neighborhood of Watts, which is famous for the 1965 Watts riots, the film’s protagonist Dorothy has to fight many demons: not only a white supremacist society, but also her partner, Vietnam veteran T.C., imprisoned on false charges, who lovingly but poorly continues to try and influence her decisions from inside prison. All while Dorothy is pregnant and taking care of her first daughter Luann. Despite the challenges of a society seeking her submission, Dorothy develops a political consciousness of her own. In Cinema Zawya Bush Mama will be screened for the first time in Cairo with Arabic subtitles in Palestinian dialect. The subtitles were translated by Maisan Hamdan and Ibrahim Mahfouz in the process of Basma al-Sharif and Philip Rizk’s research project "This World is Strange."