Films – Page 2 – Witness Palestine Film Festival

Boycott (2021)

Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 3:00 pm. and Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 6:00 pm. Over the past six years, unbeknownst to most Americans, 33 states passed laws intending to silence boycott and other nonviolent measures aimed at pressuring Israel on its human rights record. These dangerous bills remove the legal protection that has been awarded to boycotts for generations, granting governments the power to condition jobs on political viewpoints […]

This film will be screened with “We Never Left, Palestine”.

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Siri Miri (2021)

Saturday, October 29, 2022 at 3:00 pm. Two young men, struggling to find something to do for entertainment, ask iPhone’s Siri for suggestions […]

Screened with “The Journey of the Others” and “We Never Left, Palestine”

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We Never Left, Palestine (2022)

October 22, 23, 29, and 30, 2022 at 3:00 pm. Susan Albulhawa’s beautiful poem, “We Never Left, Palestine”, is set to music in this short movie. She eloquently expresses the story of the Palestinian people of the land and keepers of the story […]

Screened with each main feature of the 2022 festival.

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WPFF Featured in Art/Work Series

Witness Palestine Film Festival was part of the video series Art/Work, “These are the people who make art come alive in Rochester.” It was released in March 2022 by journalists / videographers at City, a ca. 50-year-old local newspaper, and also screened on local public television […]

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Objector (Fall, 2021)

Wednesday, October 13, 2021: Atalya Ben-Abba comes from a family of military professionals. She always dreamed of becoming a combat soldier. But as she comes of age during political turmoil, she begins to question the narratives she grew up with and seeks to understand the perspectives of her so-called enemies […]

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Solidarity (Fall, 2021)

Saturday, October 16, 2021: Drawing on both historical and current struggles for Palestinians under siege, occupation and forced displacement, including the Great March of Return in Gaza, the film provides a stirring indictment of Israel’s settler project as well as that of the cable networks’ deliberate spin to shield Israel from accountability […]

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Gaza Fights for Freedom (Fall, 2021)

Sunday, October 17, 2021: The creation of Gaza Fights for Freedom was Abby Martin’s debut documentary. In order to document fully the realities of the occupation, Martin joined forces with journalists in Gaza, and that collaboration resulted in this story of the Great March of Return, a nonviolent demonstration that protested Israel’s illegal and inhumane treatment of Palestinian refugees […]

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Imprisoning a Generation (Fall, 2021)

Saturday, October 23, 2021: Imprisoning a Generation features four young Palestinians who have been imprisoned in Israel. This sympathetic portrayal of how the Occupation has humiliated and permanently scarred Palestine’s youngest citizens offers a counter narrative to the prevailing one in the West: that the Israelis are the victims […]

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The Present (Fall, 2021)

Sunday, October 24, 2021: Each morning, Yusef, a doting father-of-one, has no other choice but to queue for hours and navigate the harrowing Checkpoint 300, an infamous, crowded Israeli crossing point between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, to get to work on time. But, on his wedding anniversary, Yusef has arranged to pick up a new fridge for his wife […] (screened with Occupation & De Factor Annexation)

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Occupation & De Facto Annexation (Fall, 2021)

Sunday, October 24, 2021: Leading Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard explains the Israeli government’s decades-long project to settle Palestinian land on the West Bank, entrench permanent Israeli control, and prevent Palestinian self-determination and statehood […] (screened with The Present)

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