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Palestine Summer 2005 Film Series
The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
and The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development
present
Voices of Palestine
Summer 2005 Film Series
Wednesdays @ 6:30 PM
June 22 - August 10, 2005
All films screened at The Palestine Center
2425 Virginia Ave, NW / Washington, D.C. 20037
All films begin promptly at 6:30pm. All films are in English or have English subtitles. Attendance is free and open to the public. No RSVP required, however space is limited. For directions and parking information, see www.thejerusalemfund.org. For all other inquiries, see details below or contact Jessica Robertson Wright, Cultural Coordinator, at 202-338-1958.
FILM SYNOPSES:
Wednesday, June 22 @ 6:30 PM
FILM: "Until When..."
Palestine, USA, 2004 / Director: Dahna Abourahme / 76 min.
Set during the current Intifada, this documentary follows four Palestinian families living in Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. Fadi is 13 and cares for his 4 younger brothers, the Hammashes are a close-knit family who pass on the lessons of life with humor and passion, Sana is a single woman who endures long commutes to do community work, and Emad and Hanan are a young couple trying to shield their daughter from the harsh realities of the occupation. They talk about their past and discuss the future with humor, sorrow, frustration and hope.
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Wednesday, June 29 @ 6:30 PM
FILM: "Arna's Children"
Israel, 2004 / Director: Juilano Mer Khamis / 84 min.
This film tells the story of a theater group that was established by Arna Mer Khamis, who came from a Zionist family and in the 1950s married a Palestinian Arab, Saliba Khamis. She opened an alternative education system for children in the West Bank whose regular lives were disrupted by the Israeli occupation. The theater group that she started engaged children from Jenin, helping them to express their everyday frustrations, anger, bitterness and fear. Arna's son Juliano, director of this film, was also one of the directors of Jenin's theater. He filmed the children during rehearsal periods from 1989 to 1996, and then returned eight years later to see what happened to them. Shifting back and forth in time, the film reveals the tragedy and horror of lives trapped by the circumstances of the Israeli occupation.
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Wednesday, July 6 @ 6:30 PM
Film: "Ticket to Jerusalem"
Palestine, 2002 / Director: Rashid Masharawi / 85 min.
Jaber tries to make a good life with his wife in a Palestinian refugee camp near Ramallah, just north of Jerusalem. He runs a mobile cinema, bringing entertainment to both children and adults throughout the occupied territory of the West Bank. Due to the conflict, his mission meets more and more obstacles. Encouraged by Rabab, a female schoolteacher, to organize a screening in Jerusalem's old city, his perseverance is put to the test when he investigates the complicated possibilities of staging this screening. Tension erupts in Jaber's relationship with his wife, Sanah, who questions her husband's motives for continuing to take risks in his repeated trips to Jersusalem. Jaber's determination to follow through with the Jerusalem screening, despite a strained political and domestic atmosphere, is the inspiration that carries this film through to the end.
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Wednesday, July 13 @ 6:30 PM
FILM: "Edward Said: The Last Interview"
USA, 2004 / Director: Mike Dibb / 114 min.
Edward Said was one of the most important literary critics of the late 20th century and for many years the most prominent spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in the United States. Born in Jerusalem, Said and his family were dispossessed and settled in Cairo in 1948. Educated in the U.S., he lived in New York for many years. Said was diagnosed with incurable leukemia in 1991 and struggled with the disease throughout the decade. Towards the end of his life, he stopped giving interviews, but less than a year before his death, he made an exception. Over the course of three days, he spoke at length with the filmmakers in this remarkable final testament.
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Wednesday, July 20 @ 6:30 PM
FILM: "I am Palestine"
Palestine, USA, 2003 / Director: Suha Araj / 16 min.
Millions of separate lives, yet a collective experience. What does it mean to be Palestinian while Palestine does not exist on a map? Through the thoughts and eflections of six Palestinians from diverse backgrounds, this short film affirms the uniqueness of the Palestinian identity, and the reasons to believe in a future of self-determination.
FILM: "Soraida, Woman of Palestine"
Canada, Palestine, 2004 / Director: Tahani Rached / 52 min.
In chronicling daily injustices and routine indignities, this powerful documentary paints a subtly devastating portrait of life under occupation. Soraida is a Palestinian woman living in Ramallah, a city under siege and a strict curfew. Despite the military occupation, violence and oppression, she is determined not to lose her humanity. Soraida wonders how to reconcile the multiple facets of her identity - as a woman, a mother and a committed Palestinian. The questions that haunt Soraida, her family and her neighbors take us to the heart of human experience: How to preserve one's humanity in the midst of oppression? How to resist being consumed by hate and anger, caught up in the cycle of victim and victimizer? How to love one's homeland without laying exclusive claim to it?
Note: "I am Palestine" and "Soraida, Woman of Palestine" will be shown together as the fifth event in the "Voices of Palestine" Summer 2005 Film Series.
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Wednesday, July 27 @ 6:30 PM
FILM: "Paradise Lost"
Israel, 2003 / Director: Ebtisam Mara'ana / 56 min.
Arab Israeli filmmaker Ebtisam Mara'ana grew up in Paradise (Fureidis in Arabic), a small fishing village overlooking the Mediterranean. One of the few Arab communities remaining after the 1948 war, Paradise became culturally and politically isolated as Jewish settlements sprung up around it, and today it is a place defined by silence and repression. This film diary follows the director's attempt to recreate the village's lost history, including the story of her childhood hero Suad, the legendary local "bad girl" who was imprisoned as a PLO activist in the 1970's and banished from the community. Stunning cinematography and evocative music underscore the power of Mara'ana's film, whose lyrical, emotionally charged tone is strikingly honest and straightforward. Presenting the rarely heard voice of an Arab Israeli, this important film offers valuable insight into the contradictions and complexities of modern womanhood and national identity in the Middle East.
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Wednesday, August 3 @ 6:30 PM
FILM: "The Inner Tour"
Israel, 2002 / Director: Ra'anan Alexandrowicz / 98 min.
Just months before the second Intifada began in 2000, Israeli director Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, along with his Palestinian co-producers, filmed a group of West Bank Palestinians on a three-day bus tour to Israel, where many of the passengers once lived. Their weekend trip becomes an extremely charged journey of deep emotional distances and contradicting realities as the travelers interact with ordinary Israelis and visit places that they feel simultaneously rooted to and alienated from. Their contemplative observations of and encounters with the country they are visiting lie at the heart of this piercingly resonant documentary.
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Wednesday, August 10 @ 6:30 PM
FILM: to be announced
Mark your calendar! The final film in the Summer 2005 Film Series Voices of Palestine will be shown on Wednesday, 10 August 2005 at 6:30 PM. The film has yet to be confirmed, so the title and description will follow in a separate announcement.
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The annual summer film series is hosted jointly by The Jerusalem Fund for Education & Community Development and The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University.
For the online brochure of the Summer 2005 Film Series, entitled Voices of Palestine visit the Jerusalem Fund Gallery website at www.thejerusalemfund.org.
For more information on The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, please visit our website at: ccas.georgetown.edu
For more information on The Jerusalem Fund for Education & Community Development and the Palestine Center, please see www.thejerusalemfund.org
and The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development
present
Voices of Palestine
Summer 2005 Film Series
Wednesdays @ 6:30 PM
June 22 - August 10, 2005
All films screened at The Palestine Center
2425 Virginia Ave, NW / Washington, D.C. 20037
All films begin promptly at 6:30pm. All films are in English or have English subtitles. Attendance is free and open to the public. No RSVP required, however space is limited. For directions and parking information, see www.thejerusalemfund.org. For all other inquiries, see details below or contact Jessica Robertson Wright, Cultural Coordinator, at 202-338-1958.
FILM SYNOPSES:
Wednesday, June 22 @ 6:30 PM
FILM: "Until When..."
Palestine, USA, 2004 / Director: Dahna Abourahme / 76 min.
Set during the current Intifada, this documentary follows four Palestinian families living in Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. Fadi is 13 and cares for his 4 younger brothers, the Hammashes are a close-knit family who pass on the lessons of life with humor and passion, Sana is a single woman who endures long commutes to do community work, and Emad and Hanan are a young couple trying to shield their daughter from the harsh realities of the occupation. They talk about their past and discuss the future with humor, sorrow, frustration and hope.
----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ----------
Wednesday, June 29 @ 6:30 PM
FILM: "Arna's Children"
Israel, 2004 / Director: Juilano Mer Khamis / 84 min.
This film tells the story of a theater group that was established by Arna Mer Khamis, who came from a Zionist family and in the 1950s married a Palestinian Arab, Saliba Khamis. She opened an alternative education system for children in the West Bank whose regular lives were disrupted by the Israeli occupation. The theater group that she started engaged children from Jenin, helping them to express their everyday frustrations, anger, bitterness and fear. Arna's son Juliano, director of this film, was also one of the directors of Jenin's theater. He filmed the children during rehearsal periods from 1989 to 1996, and then returned eight years later to see what happened to them. Shifting back and forth in time, the film reveals the tragedy and horror of lives trapped by the circumstances of the Israeli occupation.
----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ----------
Wednesday, July 6 @ 6:30 PM
Film: "Ticket to Jerusalem"
Palestine, 2002 / Director: Rashid Masharawi / 85 min.
Jaber tries to make a good life with his wife in a Palestinian refugee camp near Ramallah, just north of Jerusalem. He runs a mobile cinema, bringing entertainment to both children and adults throughout the occupied territory of the West Bank. Due to the conflict, his mission meets more and more obstacles. Encouraged by Rabab, a female schoolteacher, to organize a screening in Jerusalem's old city, his perseverance is put to the test when he investigates the complicated possibilities of staging this screening. Tension erupts in Jaber's relationship with his wife, Sanah, who questions her husband's motives for continuing to take risks in his repeated trips to Jersusalem. Jaber's determination to follow through with the Jerusalem screening, despite a strained political and domestic atmosphere, is the inspiration that carries this film through to the end.
----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ----------
Wednesday, July 13 @ 6:30 PM
FILM: "Edward Said: The Last Interview"
USA, 2004 / Director: Mike Dibb / 114 min.
Edward Said was one of the most important literary critics of the late 20th century and for many years the most prominent spokesperson for the Palestinian cause in the United States. Born in Jerusalem, Said and his family were dispossessed and settled in Cairo in 1948. Educated in the U.S., he lived in New York for many years. Said was diagnosed with incurable leukemia in 1991 and struggled with the disease throughout the decade. Towards the end of his life, he stopped giving interviews, but less than a year before his death, he made an exception. Over the course of three days, he spoke at length with the filmmakers in this remarkable final testament.
----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ----------
Wednesday, July 20 @ 6:30 PM
FILM: "I am Palestine"
Palestine, USA, 2003 / Director: Suha Araj / 16 min.
Millions of separate lives, yet a collective experience. What does it mean to be Palestinian while Palestine does not exist on a map? Through the thoughts and eflections of six Palestinians from diverse backgrounds, this short film affirms the uniqueness of the Palestinian identity, and the reasons to believe in a future of self-determination.
FILM: "Soraida, Woman of Palestine"
Canada, Palestine, 2004 / Director: Tahani Rached / 52 min.
In chronicling daily injustices and routine indignities, this powerful documentary paints a subtly devastating portrait of life under occupation. Soraida is a Palestinian woman living in Ramallah, a city under siege and a strict curfew. Despite the military occupation, violence and oppression, she is determined not to lose her humanity. Soraida wonders how to reconcile the multiple facets of her identity - as a woman, a mother and a committed Palestinian. The questions that haunt Soraida, her family and her neighbors take us to the heart of human experience: How to preserve one's humanity in the midst of oppression? How to resist being consumed by hate and anger, caught up in the cycle of victim and victimizer? How to love one's homeland without laying exclusive claim to it?
Note: "I am Palestine" and "Soraida, Woman of Palestine" will be shown together as the fifth event in the "Voices of Palestine" Summer 2005 Film Series.
----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ----------
Wednesday, July 27 @ 6:30 PM
FILM: "Paradise Lost"
Israel, 2003 / Director: Ebtisam Mara'ana / 56 min.
Arab Israeli filmmaker Ebtisam Mara'ana grew up in Paradise (Fureidis in Arabic), a small fishing village overlooking the Mediterranean. One of the few Arab communities remaining after the 1948 war, Paradise became culturally and politically isolated as Jewish settlements sprung up around it, and today it is a place defined by silence and repression. This film diary follows the director's attempt to recreate the village's lost history, including the story of her childhood hero Suad, the legendary local "bad girl" who was imprisoned as a PLO activist in the 1970's and banished from the community. Stunning cinematography and evocative music underscore the power of Mara'ana's film, whose lyrical, emotionally charged tone is strikingly honest and straightforward. Presenting the rarely heard voice of an Arab Israeli, this important film offers valuable insight into the contradictions and complexities of modern womanhood and national identity in the Middle East.
----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ----------
Wednesday, August 3 @ 6:30 PM
FILM: "The Inner Tour"
Israel, 2002 / Director: Ra'anan Alexandrowicz / 98 min.
Just months before the second Intifada began in 2000, Israeli director Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, along with his Palestinian co-producers, filmed a group of West Bank Palestinians on a three-day bus tour to Israel, where many of the passengers once lived. Their weekend trip becomes an extremely charged journey of deep emotional distances and contradicting realities as the travelers interact with ordinary Israelis and visit places that they feel simultaneously rooted to and alienated from. Their contemplative observations of and encounters with the country they are visiting lie at the heart of this piercingly resonant documentary.
----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ----------
Wednesday, August 10 @ 6:30 PM
FILM: to be announced
Mark your calendar! The final film in the Summer 2005 Film Series Voices of Palestine will be shown on Wednesday, 10 August 2005 at 6:30 PM. The film has yet to be confirmed, so the title and description will follow in a separate announcement.
----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ----------
The annual summer film series is hosted jointly by The Jerusalem Fund for Education & Community Development and The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University.
For the online brochure of the Summer 2005 Film Series, entitled Voices of Palestine visit the Jerusalem Fund Gallery website at www.thejerusalemfund.org.
For more information on The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, please visit our website at: ccas.georgetown.edu
For more information on The Jerusalem Fund for Education & Community Development and the Palestine Center, please see www.thejerusalemfund.org