29 November 2012
One-day Palestinian film festival on Saturday 1 December in Dublin's Temple Bar
TO mark International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (29 November), and to coincide with the 'World Social Forum – Free Palestine' in Brazil, the Progressive Film Club has joined with the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign to bring you a one-day Palestinian film festival on Saturday 1 December.
Admission free (Donations welcome!)
A scene from 'Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land: US Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict'
1pm (First Film) - 3pm (Final Film)
RUNNING ORDER:
1.00pm - The Land Speaks Arabic (2007)
In this award-winning documentary, the late 19th century birth of
Zionism—and its repercussions for Palestinians—is detailed with original
source documents, Zionist leaders’ quotations, rare archival footage,
testimonies of witnesses and interviews with historians. All help to
illustrate that the expulsion of the indigenous Arab population from
Palestine was far from an accidental result of the 1948 war, but was a
deliberate policy.
In English, Arabic and Hebrew, with English Subtitles
Directed by Maryse Gargour
Runtime: 62 mins
2.30pm - Bassem - Story of a Martyr (2009)
Bassem Abu Rahmah was an non-violent anti-Apartheid Wall activist from
the West Bank village of Bil'in. On April 17th 2009 he was murdered by
the Israeli military when he was shot at point blank range in the chest
with a tear gas cannister. This tragic and moving film, the first
directed by the award-winning director of Five Broken Cameras (2012),
looks at the situation in Bil'in through the lens of Bassem's short
life.
In Arabic, with English Subtitles
Directed by Emad Burnat
Runtime: 22 mins
3.05pm - Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land (2004)
This film provides an analysis of U.S. and international media coverage
of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural
distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It analyzes and explains how, through the
use of language, framing and context, the Israeli occupation of the West
Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media. This film is perhaps
more important than ever as the recent Israeli assault on Gaza has seen
the exporting of the type of shallow reportage, distorted in favour of
the Israeli narrative, to screens in Ireland and Europe.
In English
Directed by Sut Jhally and Bathsheba Ratzkoff
Runtime: 80 mins
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