Voices of Palestine Film Series
Zindeeq
Director: Michel Khleifi / 85 minutes / 2009
M (Mohammad Bakri), a film director living in Europe, returns to Palestine to work on a documentary based on eyewitness accounts of the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland. He is soon drawn into a crisis involving a vendetta against his family in Nazareth. The film takes us on a journey through the hours M spends as he awaits dawn, a journey which drives him into the depths of his mythical town, Nazareth, and forces him to rediscover his inner world where nostalgia for the past is in conflict with a strong desire for a future free of that past. Will he achieve the much-desired mourning for all that has disappeared in his personal life and in the collective history of his people?
Event Details: This film is the first in the "Voices of Palestine" Summer 2010 Film Series. The annual film series is hosted jointly by The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development and The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University. Films begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. All films are in English or have English subtitles. Attendance is free and open to the public. No RSVP required. Films are screened at The Jerusalem Fund, 2425 Virginia Ave, NW, Washington, D.C. 20037. For more information, call The Jerusalem Fund at 202-338-1958 or email info@thejerusalemfund.org.
Wednesday | 21 July | 6:30 p.m. Wednesday | 28 July | 6:30 p.m. Lesh Sabreen?
Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza)
Director: Nicolas Wadimoff / 85 minutes / 2010
Director: Muayad Alayan / 20 minutes / 2009
Degrees of Incarceration
Director: Amahl Bishara / 59 minutes / 2009
Wednesday | 4 August | 6:30 p.m.
Corner Store
Director: Katherine Bruens / Work in progress, in post-production
Wednesday | 11 August | 6:30 p.m.
Laila’s Birthday (Eid Milad Laila)
Director: Rashid Masharawi / 71 minutes / 2008
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