Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 3:00 pm. EDT, 1900 UTC
Featuring:
Online only
Style: documentary
Overall Run Time: 1:29
Projection media: blu-ray discs
Tickets: free with registration
Coming Home
Co-writers/directors: Naim Naif & Margot Bowman
Run time: 9 minutes
Language: English
Style: documentary
Year: 2022
About Coming Home
Amer Abdelrasoul, leader of the Freedom Dabka Group, describes the group and what it means to his community living in Bay Ridge (Brooklyn). Debka, a folk dance from the Levantine region, represents Palestinian aspirations, struggle, and history. “Doing Debka is the closest thing I know to being back home in Palestine … Something that’s warm and filled with hope,” one of the dancers said. […]
Liwan: a Story of Cultural Resistance
Director: Doris Hakim
Producer: Adam Newby
Run time: 29 minutes
Language: English
Style: documentary
Year: 2021
About Liwan
Liwan: A Story of Cultural Resistance is about a “culture café” in Nazareth. It opened in 2016 when the old market of Nazareth was a no-go area, run down following an Israeli “redevelopment” project. Despite many difficulties, they opened, and many new cultural spaces have followed, driving a revival of the souq. They practice ‘cultural resistance’, organizing activities that focus on the Palestinian identity. […]
Hummus: a Story of Appropriation
Director/narrator: Lafi Abood
Run time: 51 minutes
Language: English, open captioned
Style: documentary
Year: 2022
About Hummus
Since the start of the occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967, the Israeli government has placed restrictions on the Palestinian population, which in turn has left them in an unprecedented time bubble. Using the cultural appropriation of the popular chickpea dip Hummus as a frame, the film chronicles the lives of some ordinary Palestinians in Jerusalem. Conditions in the city affect their lives such that they cannot mourn the past, live the present, or contemplate a future. Their very humanity is appropriated. In many ways, their lives parallel the fate of Hummus. […]