Archive: Film & Documentary / Reading Palestine Solidarity Campaign

FILM: Jaffa at our March Meeting

March 9th, 2012 • Events, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: cannes, film, meeting, november, oscar, Salt of This Sea

As part of our March branch meeting we’ll be showing Eyal Sivan’s film “Jaffa, the orange’s clockwork”:

… narrates the visual history of the famous citrus fruit originated from Palestine and known worldwide for centuries as “Jaffa oranges”.

The history of the orange is the history of this land. Through photography and cinema, poetry, paintings, workers of the citruses’ industry and historians, memory and present mythologies, Palestinians and Israelis cross and combine. The close reading of the Jaffa brand’s visual representation is a reflection on western orientalist phantasms surrounding the ‘holy land’ and the ‘State of Israel’ and a tool to reveal the untold story of what was once a commune industry and symbol to Arabs and Jews in Palestine.

When? 8pm Thursday 15th March 2012

Where? Room 3, RISC, London Street, Reading , RG1 4PS (above the Global Cafe)

FREE Talk & Film: Valley of Hope and Despair, 3 March 2-5pm

February 17th, 2012 • Events, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: film, Friends Meeting House, Quakers, reading, talk, The Friends of Wadi Fuqeen, Valley of Hope and Despair

Friends of Wadi Fuqeen will be holding a free talk and film-show about the Palestinian village of Wadi Fuqeen.

When? 2-5pm Saturday March 3, 2012

Where? The Friends Meeting House, 2 Church Street, Reading, RG1 2SB

Download: Event Flyer – Event Poster

2.30pm: Joe Odell speatks about his recent experiences in Palestine
3.15pm: Film “Valley of Hope and Despair: The Director’s Cut”, trailer:
Fairtrade tea and coffee will be available from 2pm to 5pm and Fairtrade Palestinian handicrafts and foodstuffs will be on sale throughout the afternoon.

The event is part of Fairtrade Fortnight

FILM: Gaza Lives On at our February Meeting

February 9th, 2012 • Events, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: cannes, film, meeting, november, oscar, Salt of This Sea

UPDATED: Thanks to all those that attended the meeting. Please share the film, embedded above.

As part of our February branch meeting we’ll be showing Ashraf Mashharawi’s film “Gaza Lives On”: The Israeli blockade may have taken a heavy toll on Gazans, but this film reveals life and hope among the devastation.

Some have said of the film: “… it is very precious and captures the beauty, struggle and spirit of Gazans in a very intimate way.”

“I just wanted by this film to show how people here have a nice building spirit and to show their love of life and peace so we can see this nice color pictures despite the hard conditions that they have.” – Ashraf Mashharawi

When? 8pm Thursday 16th February 2012

Where? Room 3, RISC, London Street, Reading , RG1 4PS (above the Global Cafe)

BBC Three: Mixed up in the Middle East

November 14th, 2011 • 1 comment Awareness, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: bbc, BBC Three, Mixed Up in the Middle East, Reya El-Salahi, tv

Watch on iPlayer (UK) or Youtube (above)

Reya’s half Arab, half Jewish. Her parents fell in love across the Middle East divide, but she’s grown up in Britain. So what happens when she goes to Israel and the Palestinian territories for the first time?

Read Reya’s blog: Reya El-Salahi: Mixed Up in the Middle East

9pm Monday 14 November 2011 BBC Three Repeated 1.05am Tue / 4am Wed

BBC Press Office:

This is a journey of understanding for the BBC Three audience as Reya gets to meet people from both sides of the divide – whose shattered lives are the fallout from the conflict. Spending time with her own cousins, she’ll reveal how everyday life for them has been made shockingly different – often very dangerous – by the long-running hostilities they were born into. It’s a world away from the life she knows but one all too familiar for her ancestors. She’ll explore what the two sides have in common, as well as what divides them; and explore the prospects for peace as the Arab world undergoes its most radical change for generations.

FILM: Salt of this Sea at our November Meeting

November 10th, 2011 • Events, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: cannes, film, meeting, november, oscar, Salt of This Sea

As part of our November branch meeting we’ll be showing the award-winning film “Salt of this Sea” – a 2008 Official Selection at Cannes and Palestine’s OSCAR entry for Best Foreign Language Film.

When? 8pm Thursday 17th November 2011

Where? Room 3, RISC, London Street, Reading , RG1 4PS (above the Global Cafe)

Soraya, born in Brooklyn in a working class community of Palestinian refugees, discovers that her grandfather’s savings were frozen in a bank account in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948. Stubborn, passionate and determined to reclaim what is hers, she fulfills her life-long dream of “returning” to Palestine. Once there, slowly she is taken apart by the reality around her and is forced to confront her own anger. She meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever. Tired of the constraints that dictate their lives, they know in order to be free, they must take things into their own hands, even if it’s illegal.

Find out more at the Official Website…

FILM: Budrus at our September Meeting

September 9th, 2011 • Events, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: Budrus, documentary, meeting, september

“It takes a village to unite the
most divided people on earth.”

We’ll be showing the award-winning film Budrus, an inspiring film chronicling the peaceful protests of Palestinians in the West Bank, at our September meeting. Trailer:

When? 8pm Thursday 15th Sept 2011

Where? Room 3, RISC, London Street, Reading , RG1 4PS(above the Global Cafe)

Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that quickly moves to the front lines. Struggling side by side, father and daughter unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground today. In an action-filled documentary chronicling this movement from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on people who choose nonviolence to confront a threat.

Find out more at the Official Website…
Watch AJE’s Fabulous Picture Show on the Budrus

FILM: Death in Gaza – Free Screening

July 1st, 2011 • Events, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: Basingstoke Activist Film Group, Death in Gaza, free, QMC, screening

Our friends at Basingstoke Activist Film Group will be showing the “Death in Gaza” this Saturday. A harrowing, Emmy award-winning, documentary that portrays the horror of conflict.

The film opens in the West Bank, moving to Gaza and eventually Rafah. It concentrates on 3 children (Ahmed, Mohammed and Najla), concluding with the tragic death of its director, James Miller.

Admission is FREE + free cake & homemade lemonade! To be followed by Q&A and discussion with BAFG and PSC.

Saturday 2nd July @ 10.30am – 1.30pm

Queen Mary’s College, Cliddesden Road, Basingstoke, RG21 3HF

(look out for BAFG members at the QMC Reception)

*The film is rated 15, so may not be suitable for a young audience.

Jewish-American Harassed, then Arrested, in Jerusalem

June 11th, 2011 • Action, Awareness, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: arrest, harass, jersualem, jewish american

from Youtube:

American-Jewish young man is being harassed and treated unfairly he is then arrested in Jerusalem for speaking out against the Israeli occupation. How sad ,he had the courage to speak out but then was arrested … so unfair.

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Stranglehold on Wadi Fuqeen Tightens

June 7th, 2011 • Film & Documentary, News
Tags: The Friends of Wadi Fuqeen, video, wadi fuqeen

Friends of Wadi Fuqeen sent us this video by Jakob Schiller and Lubna Sharief outlining the growing problems faced by the Palestinian village of Wadi Fuqeen, sandwiched between the illegal Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit and the illegal Apartheid Wall.