Palestinian Film Festival | Palestine Trilogy
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Cinema Politica London
Friday January 30, 2009
Screening begins 20h30
Venue: Wemple Lounge | Kings University College | 266 Epworth Ave.
Passionate and poignant, the Palestinian Film Festival is a celebration of Palestinian cinema and culture.
Presented by Cinema Politica London | Centre for Social Concern - Social Justice and Peace Club King's University College.
This festival is co-sponsored by People for Peace.
The bombings in Gaza are over just in time for Obama to become the new US president, but that doesn't mean important and powerful media on Palestine/Israel isn't still needed.
Please join us for first film festival of the Winter 2009 Cinema Politica London programmer. It will be a night of powerful moving images that show the complexities of the conflict and occupation in the Middle East - from both an Israeli and Palestinian perspective. Everyone is welcome. Our six films can be founded listed in separate events. Watch one or immerse yourself for the night and watch them all.
Admission is by-donation.
Bring a blanket, a pillow, anything you need to get comfortable. Fair trade organic coffee with fair trade organic sugar, fair trade organic cream or fair trade organic soy milk will be available compliments of Social Justice and Peace Club King's University College. BYOM - Bring Your Own Mug.
Palestine Trilogy | Documentations in History, Land and Hope
A hope that the ‘sounds of peace’ may predominate.
b.h. Yael / Canada / 2006 / 75 min / Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles
With profound depth and grace these three, thematically related videos tell the tragic story of Palestine and dispel many myths. Deir Yassin Remembered deals with the past by focusing on a well-documented incident of the Nakba (Catastrophe, the Palestinian term for the takeover of their land in 1948) - the destruction of the thriving community of Deir Yassin. Even in the Desert explores the contemporary ramifications of the Israeli occupation – the displacements, checkpoints, surveillance, walls. And the final segment A Hot, Sandfilled World is a visual/auditory poem signifying, perhaps, hope for the future. What makes the whole experience particularly moving is that the reasonable, non-confrontational voices throughout are those of peace and social justice activists from every side – Israeli, Palestinian, and international.
Credits
b.h. Yael
b.h. Yael is an Israeli-born Canadian who is Professor and Chair of Integrated Media at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and a passionate advocate for a just and sustainable peace in Israel/Palestine. She has directed and produced a number of video projects that reflect on the personal and political connections to the land of her birth. Positioning herself amidst controversy, Yael offers a unique perspective, challenging the traditional Canadian perception of peace efforts in the Middle East.
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