7th edition of Palestinian film week in Loire-Atlantique, from Tuesday January 24 to Sunday February 4, 2024.
Wednesday January 25, opening session of Palestinian film week
Palestinian film week invites the public to the Concorde cinema in Nantes at 8:30 p.m. for the opening session – The screening of the film Alam, in the presence of director Firas Khoury and Sandrine Mansour, historian of Palestine.
Alam
Fiction, 2022, France, Tunisia, Palestine, 1h44 (VOST) – Director: Firas Khoury.
Tamer, Palestinian, lives in Israel. He spends a certain amount of time on his smartphone, smokes joints, tries to escape the authority of his parents and painfully follows his studies in a high school where the teachers give lectures on the greatness of the Hebrew state. Tamer does not seem destined to lead militant actions until Mayssa arrives. To please him, Tamer agrees to take part in a mysterious flag operation on the eve of Israeli Independence Day, a day of mourning for Palestinians (the Nakba).
Yallah Gaza
Documentary, 2023, France, 1h41 (VOF) – Director: Roland Nurier.
The Gaza Strip, Palestinian territory, where more than 2 million people are crowded together, regularly and violently bombarded, kept under blockade by Israel since 2007, feels abandoned but does not give up. This documentary whose common thread is a group of dancers from Dabke, evolving on and in the ruins of Gaza, testifies to this “rage for life”. He gives a voice to Gazans and those responsible
local politicians, but also to Israelis, historians, jurists, journalists specializing in this region.
Bir’em
Fiction, 2022, France, 1h15 (VOST) – Director: Camille Clavel.
Nagham is a young Palestinian Christian from what is now the Galilee (northern Israel). His grandfather carries the memory of the village. Nagham is nourished by the memories and poems of this peaceful man with whom she finds an anchor that life in Israel denies her. Nagham gradually reconnects with the history of Bir’em, with the Nakba – Kefar Bir’em is a very beautiful Christian Arab village destroyed in 1948. Nagham decides to override the ban on returning to the ruins and undertakes to give back life in these places left as if frozen.LE CONNÉTABLE – Clisson 8:30 p.m. Bir’em, in the presence of director Camille Clavel
The reports on Sarah and Saleem
Fiction, 2018, Palestine, Netherlands, Germany, Mexico, 2h07 (VOST)
Director: Muayad Alayan.
The extramarital affair of a Palestinian, Saleem, a pastries delivery man, and an Israeli, Sarah, manager of a café in Jerusalem, takes on a dangerous political dimension when they are spotted in the wrong place, at the wrong time, the facing much more than their failed marriages…
Palestine, one thing leading to another
Documentary, 2017, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, 1h18 (VOST) – Director: Carol Mansour.
Twelve Palestinian women sit in front of us and talk about their existence before the Diaspora, their memories, their lives and their identity. The narrators share the constant fear that the ancient art of embroidery will disappear.
Twelve resilient, determined women from very different backgrounds stitch together the story of their motherland, their dispossession, and their unwavering faith in the triumph of justice.
3000 Nights
Fiction, 2017, Palestine, 1h43 (VOST) – Director: Mai Masri.
In the 1980s, revolt brewed in an Israeli prison. Layal, a young Palestinian teacher from Nablus has just arrived, sentenced to 8 years in prison for an attack in which she was not involved. She must face the attacks of her fellow Israeli prisoners, convicted under common law, and the distrust of other Palestinian women. Layal discovers that she is pregnant and decides to keep the child.
Palestinian film week from Wednesday January 24 to Sunday February 4, 2024 in participating Loire-Atlantique cinemas. An event organized by AFPS in partnership with the CCFD-Terre solidaire 44, the ABJC of Bouguenais and the Friends of Abu Dis Solidarité Palestine of Rezé.
2024-01-16 02:27:27
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