Posts Tagged ‘film’
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.
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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)
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: Valley of the Wolves – Palestine
January 28th, 2011 • Film & Documentary, News
Tags: film, flotilla, gaza, KUTLAR VADISI - FILISTIN, turkish, Valley of the Wolves - Palestine
New Turkish action movie, Valley of the Wolves – Palestine, based on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla:
Showing at Cineplex, Wood Green, London: “KUTLAR VADISI – FILISTIN”
Reviews: Guardian, New York Times (during production) & Al Jazeera report:
Israeli Troops Ordered to “Cleanse” Gaza
January 27th, 2011 • Film & Documentary, News
Tags: Concrete, documentary, film, gaza, idf, interview, Nurit Kedar, Operation Cast Lead, Testimony, war crimes
Stunning new testimony from IDF troops sent into Gaza during Operation Cast Lead from Nurit Kedar’s film ‘Concrete’:
Nurit Kedar’s film, Concrete, hears from Israeli soldiers who blame their military leaders for encouraging a “disproportionate” response to Hamas’s rockets.
They claim their commanders used to “psych up” soldiers before an operation so they were ready to shoot indiscriminately.
This is the first time Israeli soldiers have come forward publicly with claims which counter those of their bosses.
In a report first aired on Channel 4 News on Wednesday, 24-year-old tank commander Ohad remembers being told the night before the operation that the entry into Gaza was to be “disproportionate”.
Once into Gaza, he says his orders were unambiguous: “We needed to cleanse the neighbourhoods, the buildings, the area. It sounds really terrible to say “cleanse”, but those were the orders….I don’t want to make a mistake with the words.”
The IDF [Israel Defence Forces] has said its operational orders during the war emphasised “proportionality” and “humanity”.
The importance of minimising harm to civilians was made clear to soldiers, the IDF said at the time. By the end of the 22 day long operation some 1,400 Palestinians had been killed and large areas of Gaza razed. Ten Israeli soldiers and three Israeli civilians also died.
Read more at Channel 4 News…
Israeli Embassy response:
“Unlike much of the region, the open society within Israel allows for all allegations such as these to be aired and investigated.
“Israel has already authorised over 100 separate investigations into the operation, five broader investigations, and close to 50 criminal investigations are also taking place.
“All this in the context of having to respond to over 12,000 missiles raining on our citizens – such an operation could unfortunately never be flawless given these circumstances.
“Our judicial process is renowned across the world for its independence. This is a country after all, which holds even the very top of society to account, as has been proven in recent days. This is Israel in the 21st Century, a flourishing democracy, thriving amongst a desert of tyranny in the Middle East.”
Interview with filmmaker Nurit Kedar:
Nurit Kedar’s other films include ‘One Shot’:
GAZA-STROPHE, the day after…
December 9th, 2010 • Awareness, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: film, gaza, GAZA-STROPHE, the day after...
We came to Gaza in the aftermath of the war, and with our friends the Palestinian Human Rights delegates, we discovered the extent of the Gaza-strophe. The accounts of dozens of witnesses of Israel’s war against Gaza who take us to depth of the Palestinians’ nightmare.
WATCH ONLINE HERE…
(via & thanks to Ted from Liverpool)
BUDRUS: It Takes a Village to Unite the Most Divided People on Earth
November 19th, 2010 • Awareness, Film & Documentary
Tags: Budrus, documentary, film, Julia Bacha, village
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.
While this film is about one Palestinian village, it tells a much bigger story about what is possible in the Middle East. Ayed succeeded in doing what many people believe to be impossible: he united feuding Palestinian political groups, including Fatah and Hamas; he brought women to the heart of the struggle by encouraging his daughter Iltezam’s leadership; and welcoming hundreds of Israelis to cross into Palestinian territory for the first time and join this nonviolent effort. Many of the activists who joined the villagers of Budrus are now continuing to support nonviolence efforts in villages from Bil’in to Nabi Saleh to Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem.
The only scheduled UK screening is in York on November 29 – Worldwide theatrical release information is here
Al Jazeera has had extensive coverage of the film, including interviews with filmmaker Julia Bacha on Riz Khan and The Fabulous Picture Show:
Lifeline to Gaza: The Return
September 5th, 2010 • Action, Events, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: convoy, film, hassan ghani, presstv, viva palestina
Hassan Ghani’s Press TV documentary following Viva Palestina’s third convoy which started in December 2009.
[6-part playlist - direct link]
FILM: Lemon Tree – Film 4, 1am Friday 25 June
June 23rd, 2010 • Film & Documentary
Tags: film, film4, lemon tree, tv
Lemon Tree on Film 4 FRIDAY 1AM!
The Israeli Defense Minister Israel Navon moves to a house on the border between Israel and the West Bank, with the building sitting on the Israeli side just next to the dividing line. The Israeli Secret Service views the neighboring lemon grove of Salma Zidane, a Palestinian widow whose family has cared for the area for generations, as a threat to the Minister and his wife. The security forces soon set up a guard post and a barbed wire fence around the grove. They then obtain an order to uproot the lemon trees. [Wiki]
