[tadamon-l] [Montreal] Palestinian Perspectives: May 15th 2008 at Cinéma du Parc.

[Tadamon!]

* Palestinian Perspectives: May 2008
May 15th 2008. Cinéma du Parc, 3575 Avenue du Parc.

http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/1404

An evening of Palestinian films to commemorate 60 years since Al-Nakba - the 
catastrophe of dispossession brought about by the establishment of the State of 
Israel - and to celebrate the Palestinian voice.

1947-1948: Zionist forces provoke the exodus of 750,000 refugees, forcibly 
evicted from their homes and villages. May 15 has been chosen to mark the 
tragedy.

2008: 5 million Palestinians live scattered throughout the world and demand 
recognition of their right to return. 4 million Palestinians live under brutal 
occupation in the West Bank and under a state of permanent siege in Gaza, while 
over 1 million live in Israel as second-class citizens.

Palestinian directors living under occupation or in exile shed light on history 
and reality, through outstanding films, some of them award-winners.

Since 2007, a Montreal collective has focussed on the organisation of events 
dedicated to Palestinian artistic and cultural expression: Palestinian 
Perspectives. These film and video screenings mark the 60th anniversary of the 
NAKBA (for Palestinians, the catastrophe precipitated by the establishment of 
the State of Israel in 1948).

Palestinian Perspectives celebrates the persistance and resistance of 
Palestinian culture through out the world and in the occupied territories, by 
sharing a selection of outstanding new audio-visual works with a broad Montreal 
public.

These events are also an opportunity to propose concrete actions, notably the 
International Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign against Israeli 
Apartheid, organized in response to an appeal by the Palestinian civil society.

Entrance 10$
7,50$ students/senior citizens
7,50$ before 6pm
6$ with cinécarte
(8 films for 48$)


---> 17h00 / 5:00 (length 94 min.)

* Beyond Blue and Grey
Canada/États-Unis/Palestine 2008
Jessica Habie, Nirah Shirazipour, 11 min.

Portraits of Palestinian creativity under Occupation. Reflecting the aesthetics 
of the Palestinian narrative... past and present.
(Original English and Arabic version with English s.-t.) 
http://www.beyondblueandgrayfilms.com

* Coming Back
Palestine 2003, Ahmad Habash, 6:20 min.

Some birds migrate but all the birds keep coming back, seeking the warmth of a 
homeland. (no dialogue)

* Testimonies from the Nakba Archive
Liban/États-Unis 2008, Diana Allan, Mahmoud Zeidan, 25 min.

Since 2002, the Nakba Archive has recorded over 450 eyewitness testimonies with 
Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon. The collection reconstructs through 
personal memories life in Palestine prior to 1948, and documents the events 
that led up to the expulsions.
(Original Arabic version with English s.-t.)
http://www.nakba-archive.org

* Pasolini pa* Palestine
Palestine/États-Unis 2006, Ayreen Anastas, 51 min.

1964: Searching for location sites for the shooting of his film "The Gospel 
according to St. Matthew", Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini explores the 
Holy Land and describes its beauty and contradictions, through a dialogue with 
a priest, Don Andrea Carraro. The footage shot will become "Seeking locations 
in Palestine". Twenty-five years later, a filmmaker of Palestinian origin 
follows his steps and mirrors his scene selection. It's the same film, and yet 
another.
(Original Arabic version with English s.-t.)


---> 19h00 / 7:00 (length 90 min.)

* Deir Yassin Remembered
Canada 2006, b. h. Yael, 28 min., in English

This is the 3rd episode of Yael's Palestine Trilogy, that uses a variety of 
approaches to focus on activist initiatives: this one considers the pivotal 
repercussions of the massacre at Deir Yassin in 1948, resulting in widespread 
Palestinian dispossession, and calls for the need to remember.
(Original English and Arabic version with English s.-t.)
http://www.bhyael.com

* Leila Khaled
Suède 2007, Lina Makboul, 62 min.

Leila Khaled was the first woman to hijack a flight in 1969 and became famous 
worldwide, and a hero for many Palestinians. Thirty-five years later, a young 
Palestinian-Swedish woman visits her and films her at home in Amman. The result 
is a multi-dimensional film about the complexities of liberation movements.
(Original Swedish and Arabic version with English s.-t.)
http://www.leilakhaled.com


---> 21h00 / 9:00 (length 96 min.)

* Sons of Eilaboun
Germany-Palestine 2008, Hisham Zreiq, 23:44 min.

On October 30, 1948, the Israeli Army marches into the northern Galilee village 
of Eilaboun. The people, who have taken refuge in two churches, are marched to 
the Lebanese border, except 19 men who are executed. The village is then looted 
and ransacked. This story was repeated hundreds of times across the land that 
today is called Israel. The survivors remember.
(Original Arabic version with English s.-t.)
http://www.sonsofeilaboun.com

* Reste tranquille
Palestine-France 2006, Sameh Zoabi, 18:27 min.

A young boy and his father are on their way home to the city of Nazareth. What 
should be a simple car trip is beset by politically charged tension and a 
militarized reality, each of which serves as a foil to represent the struggle 
of a complacent father raising a strong willed son.
(Original Arabic version with French s.-t.)

* A Palestinian Journey
Royaume-Uni/Palestine 2006, Osama Qashoo, 54 min.

A three-part documentary recording the filmmaker's journey from Palestine into 
exile in London. The first part examines the people's struggle to defend the 
olive trees against Israeli attempts to destroy them. Next, a family of emigres 
explain the sickness of exile to the filmmaker. Finally, the filmmaker himself 
is caught in the same trap, and questions whether life must be lived on a "no 
choice basis".
(Original Arabic version with English s.-t.)


---> a project of:
Tadamon Montreal! http://tadamon.resist.ca
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid http://caia.web
Coalition pour la justice et la paix en Palestine http://cjpp.org

In collaboration with Cinéma du Parc
http://regardspalestiniensmtl.blogspot.com

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