[tadamon-l] [Montreal] Monday! Hijacker: Leila Khaled of Palestine.

[Tadamon!]

* Hijacker: film screening on Leila Khaled of Palestine
a co-presentation from Cinema Politica and Tadamon! Montreal

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MONDAY OCTOBER 6th, 19h30.
Concordia University
room H-110. 1455 de maisonneuve
metro Guy-Concordia
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http://tadamon.resist.ca/post/1734

including the screening of War of 33 on Israel's 2006 attack on Lebanon from 
Big Noise Films.

A film screening presented at Concordia University in Montreal, which will 
feature striking cinematic works on the Middle East, from the 2006 Israeli 
military attack on Lebanon captured by the celebrated Bid Noise Films from New 
York City, to the story of Leila Khaled, a Palestinian resistance fighter 
portrayed in film.


* WAR OF 33:
Big Noise Films. Lebanon/U.S. 2007 / 35 min.

An intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in 
Lebanon. A series of letters written by Hanady Salman - a mother living through 
the war in Beirut - carve a narrative arc through the intense and haunting 
images of conflict. She tells the stories of her family and the people she 
lives the war with - the refugees, the wounded, and the everyday Lebanese, 
struggling to maintain their sanity and their humanity during a time of war. 
The War of 33 is more than a document of a particular historical experience. 
What emerges is a universal story - a complex picture of love, pain, resistance 
and survival in the face of uncertainty and violence.

* HIJACKER:
a film from Lina Makboul. Sweden. 2005 / 58 min

In 1969 Palestinian Leila Khaled made history by becoming the first woman to 
hijack an airplane. As a Palestinian child growing up in Sweden, filmmaker Lina 
Makboul admired Khaled for her bold actions; as an adult, she began asking 
complex questions about the legacy created by her childhood hero. This 
fascinating documentary is at once a portrait of Khaled, an exploration of the 
filmmaker's own understanding of her Palestinian identity, and a complicated 
examination of the nebulous dichotomy between "terrorist" and "freedom 
fighter."


An event taking place in the context of Tadamon!'s ongoing political campaigns 
operating in Canada, including the campaign for boycott, sanctions & divestment 
of the apartheid Israeli state and the campaign to challenge the listing of 
Hezbollah as a terrorist organization by the Canadian government.

* Tadamon!: Challenging Hezbollah.s listing as a "Terrorist" Group in Canada

http://tadamon.resist.ca/campaigns/de-listing-hezbollah

* Tadamon!: Boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid

http://tadamon.resist.ca/campaigns/boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-against-israeli-apartheid

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* Cinema Politica: to watch the trailers, read the full synopses and check out 
the Cinema Politica schedules across the network, visit us online at: 
http://www.cinemapolitica.org

Cinema Politica is an überculture project, and is co-sponsored by CitizenShift 
(http://citizen.nfb.ca) and Concordia University Television (CUTV) 
(http://cutv.concordia.ca). Additional support comes from our friends at the 
Concordia Co-op Bookstore (http://www.co-opbookstore.ca), the Cinema Politica 
Network is also supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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