Archive for Film & Documentary
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
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?
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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.
Leave a comment if you know more about this story.
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.
2011 London Palestine Film Festival
May 20th, 2011 • Film & Documentary
Tags: 2011, A Boy, A Wall and A Donkey, London Palestine Film Festival, palestine film festival, Soup Over Bethlehem, Targeted Citizen
3 short films we showed at our May branch meeting
A Boy, A Wall and A Donkey by Hany Abu-Assad
Targeted Citizen by Adalah
Soup Over Bethlehem by Larissa Sansour
Find out more about the other films and future festivals at the LPFF website:
Saeb Erekat on the Palestine Papers
February 4th, 2011 • Film & Documentary, News
Tags: al jazeera, David Frost, Frost Over World, Palestine Papers, Saeb Erekat
AJE’s Frost Over the World – Posturing in Palestine:
The story of the week has been the release, by Al Jazeera, of leaked documents showing the inside story of the Middle East negotiations.
The Palestine Papers controversially revealed the Palestinian position in negotiations with Israel.
Sir David is joined by Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator at the talks.
Louis Theroux: My time among the Ultra-Zionists
February 4th, 2011 • Film & Documentary, News
Tags: bbc, documentary, israel, Louis Theroux, palestinian, Zionists
UPDATED: Informative ‘Behind the Scenes’ report with Executive Producer Nick Mirsky at Broadcast Now...
BBC 2 documentary with Louis Theroux [@Louis_Theroux], Ultra Zionists:
Louis Theroux spends time with a small and very committed subculture of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers. He discovers a group of people who consider it their religious and political obligation to populate some of the most sensitive and disputed areas of the West Bank, especially those with a spiritual significance dating back to the Bible.
Throughout his journey, Louis gets close to the people most involved with driving the extreme end of the Jewish settler movement – finding them warm, friendly, humorous, and deeply troubling.
- BBC Breakfast: “I waited 10 years to make the film on Zionists”
- BBC Radio: Richard Bacon interviews Louis Theroux
- BBC Magazine – My time among the ‘ultra-Zionists’:
The anger and despair of the Palestinians at the settling of foreigners in their midst is palpable. Many say they would be happy to have Jewish neighbours but not while they don’t enjoy the same rights or have the same sovereignty. Towards the end of my stay, one of the settler security guards in East Jerusalem shot and killed a Palestinian man. Rioting was widespread and it seemed clear to me the country was close to a third intifada.
Not long after that I left Jerusalem, but not before I visited Yair again. Once again I found him friendly, likeable, and yet profoundly lacking in perspective of how his national aspirations were trampling on the rights of millions of Palestinians.
With the very vague possibility of peace on the horizon, I asked if he wasn’t worried about being told to leave.
“If they want they can take me by power and I’m going to come back illegally,” he said. “This is our land. You can come and kill us and do whatever you want. We’re going to die for this country.”
Read more…
- The Guardian interview: ‘I’m not that comfortable doing polemic’
- The Guardian TV Review:
The weirdest encounter was with a group of American Christians who had volunteered to pick grapes at a West Bank vineyard. “It’s a labour of love for the nation of Israel,” said one. Like Daniel, they seemed incapable of viewing the situation as in any way complex. In general, when Theroux goes on one of his adventures one is forced to admire his daft, naive courage. In this case I was left admiring his patience.
