“Palestinian Cinema Week” demonstration
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The Tunisian Ministry of Culture developed a special program to support the Palestinian people through art, and chose cinema to highlight the Tunisians’ standing alongside the Palestinians suffering from the scourge of war in Gaza, according to what those organizing the “Palestinian Cinema Week” demonstration confirmed to “Erm News.”
Starting next Tuesday, the City of Culture in the Tunisian capital will be the scene of the “Palestinian Cinema Week” demonstration, which comes in line with the call of the Tunisian Ministry of Culture to organize cultural demonstrations in support of the Palestinian cause and to highlight the role of art in it, according to the organizers.
Palestinian Cinema Week is organized at the initiative of the Tunisian Film Library and under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, from October 31 to November 5. The Ministry says that “this demonstration comes within the framework of Tunisia’s support and advocacy for the Palestinian cause.”
The program includes film screenings, readings and panel discussions in the presence of Palestinian directors, and the opening will be on Tuesday, October 31, at 6:30 pm local time, with a showing of the film “The Wedding of Galilee,” directed by Michel Khleifi in 1988.
This will be followed by the screening of the films “Gaza Monamor” by directors Tarzan and Arab Nasser, and “Laila’s Birthday” by director Rashid Masharawi, on November 1.
On November 2, the Seventh Art audience will watch the film “Science” by director Firas Khoury (2022), then on November 3, it will be with the film “Writing on Snow” by Rachid Masharawi (2017), and the screening of this film will be preceded by readings. “Cinema of Resistance” at the Mohamed Mahfouz Library.
The two films, “Jenin, Jenin” (2002), by Muhammad Bakri, and “Eyes of the Thief” (2014), by Najwa Al-Najjar, will be screened on November 4, and the Palestinian Cinema Week will conclude the next day with the screening of “Palestine Stereo,” also directed by Rashid Masharawi. It was produced in 2013.
The Tunisian Ministry of Culture explained that dedicating a week to Palestinian cinema comes after the Ministry announced the cancellation of the 34th session of the Carthage Cinema Days, which was scheduled to be held from October 28 to November 4, 2023.
This comes in solidarity with the Palestinian people and “in consideration of the critical humanitarian conditions witnessed in the Gaza Strip and all the occupied Palestinian territories.”
According to a statement by the Tunisian Ministry of Culture published on its official Facebook page, the proceeds of the Palestinian Cinema Week are allocated to the Palestinian people in coordination with the Tunisian Red Crescent.
Last week, the Ministry organized the “An Evening of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” in a ceremony in which the Tunisian artist Lotfi Bouchnak, the Jordanian artist Makadi Nahhas, and the artists Dorsaf Al-Hamdani and Lubna Noman participated, in addition to the Tunisian Symphony Orchestra led by Kamal Al-Ferjani.
