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Summer 2009 Film Series
Wednesdays | 1 July - 5 August | 6:30 p.m.
The
Jerusalem Fund and the Center for Contemporary
Arab Studies at Georgetown University are
pleased to present their annual
summer film
series highlighting recent
documentary and feature films from and about
Palestine that explore the social, cultural and
political complexities of Palestinian life and
identity.
All films begin promptly at 6:30 p.m.
All films are screened at The Jerusalem Fund
and are in English or have English subtitles.
Attendance is free and open to the public. No
RSVP required. However, space is limited. For
directions and parking information, click
here. For all other inquiries,
call The Jerusalem Fund at (202) 338-1958, or
email info@thejerusalemfund.org.
Wednesday | 1 July |
6:30 p.m.
Pomegranates and Myrrh (Al Mor wa al
Rumman)
Director: Najwa Najjar
/ 95 minutes /
2009
The director will be present at the
screening.
Wednesday | 8 July | 6:30
p.m.
Young Freud in
Gaza
Director: PeA Holmquist and
Suzanne Khardalian / 58 minutes /
2009
Wednesday | 15 July | 6:30 p.m.
VENUE CHANGE:
McShain Lounge in McCarthy Hall at Georgetown
University
Campus Map: http://explore.georgetown.edu/locations/index.cfm?Action=View&LocationID=79
Slingshot Hip
Hop
Director: Jackie Reem
Salloum / 94 minutes / 2008
Wednesday | 22 July | 6:30
p.m.
Salt
of this Sea (Milh Hadha
al-Bahr)
Director: Annemarie Jacir /
109 minutes /
2008
Wednesday | 29 July | 6:30
p.m.
Made in
Palestine
Director: Benoit Faiveley /
15 minutes /
2008
Chronicles of a Refugee: Identity
Without a
Homeland
Director: Perla Issa, Aseel
Mansour and Adam Shapiro / 78 minutes /
2008
Wednesday | 5 August | 6:30
p.m.
Wounds of the Heart: An Artist and Her
Nation
Wednesday | 1 July |
6:30 p.m.
Pomegranates and Myrrh (Al Mor wa al
Rumman)
Director: Najwa Najjar / 95
minutes / 2009
The director will be
present at the
screening.
View
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgofDQxSGRQ
View episode of "The
Fabulous Picture Show" on Al Jazeera English
featuring Pomegranates and Myrrh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYCJ7mUYtMc
Kamar, a
free spirited dancer, finds herself as the wife
of a prisoner, Zaid, and away from everything
she loves until she returns to the dance,
defying society’s taboos. When she
returns to dance, Kamar is confronted with
Kais, a Palestinian returnee, who has taken
Kamar's role as the head choreographer. Sparks
fly between Kamar and Kais, creating more than
a passionate, emotional dance for the both of
them. Matters become even more
complicated when Zaid's sentence is extended.
At the same time, the family's legal case
against land confiscation faces one obstacle
after another, and the villagers from the
nearby villages are unable to reach the
family's olive groves, placing the annual
harvest and consequently the family's
livelihood in danger. Kamar's life is thrown
into turmoil as she becomes increasingly
attached to Kais and is caught in the midst of
her desire to dance while breaking the family
and societal taboos of the prisoner's wife's
role as life under occupation rages
on.
There will be a Q&A
with Director Najwa Najjar after the
screening.
This film is the first in the
"Voices of Palestine" Summer 2009 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 | 8 July | 6:30
p.m.
Young Freud in
Gaza
Director: PeA Holmquist and
Suzanne Khardalian / 58 minutes /
2009
Courtesy of Icarus
Films
http://www.icarusfilms.com/new2009/yf.html
Young Freud in Gaza profiles
Ayed, a young psychotherapist for the
Palestinian Authority's Clinic for Mental
Health. Filmed during 2006-2008, against the
violent backdrop of armed clashes between Hamas
and Fateh factions, Israeli missile attacks and
the constant overhead presence of a
surveillance dirigible, the film shows Ayed
training young wives and mothers in
deep-breathing exercises to calm anxiety,
counseling maimed Hamas and Fateh militants in
meditation techniques, and leading children in
group therapy sessions in which they discuss
their reaction to the death of siblings and
draw pictures to cope with their emotions. The
film also shows Ayed at home, relating to his
parents and other family members and friends,
in the process revealing that this young
mental-health doctor is struggling with some
personal issues of his own, including serious
doubts that he is able to help his patients.
This film is the second in the "Voices of Palestine" Summer 2009 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 | 15 July | 6:30
p.m.
Slingshot Hip
Hop
VENUE CHANGE: McShain
Lounge in McCarthy Hall at Georgetown
University
Campus Map: http://explore.georgetown.edu/locations/index.cfm?Action=View&LocationID=79
Director:
Jackie Reem Salloum / 94 minutes / 2008
The director and one
of the featured hip hop artists will be present
at the
screening.
http://slingshothiphop.com/
Slingshot Hip
Hop braids together the stories
of young Palestinians living in Israel, Gaza,
and the West Bank as they discover Hip Hop and
employ it as a tool to surmount divisions
imposed by occupation and poverty. From
internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to
gender norms and
generational differences,
this is the story of young people crossing the
borders that separate them.
There will be a Q&A with Director
Jackie Reem Salloum and Hip Hop Artist Abeer
Alzinaty, who was featured in the film, after
the screening.
This
film is the third in the "Voices of Palestine"
Summer 2009 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. This film will be screened at McShain
Lounge in McCarthy Hall at Georgetown
University. For a campus map, please visit http://explore.georgetown.edu/locations/index.cfm?Action=View&LocationID=79. All other
films will be 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 | 22 July | 6:30
p.m.
Salt
of this Sea (Milh Hadha
al-Bahr)
Director: Annemarie Jacir /
109 minutes /
2008
View Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBbPUxbjiuc&feature=related
Soraya, born
in Brooklyn in a working class community of
Palestinian refugees, discovers that her
grandfather’s savings were frozen in a bank
account in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948.
Stubborn, passionate and determined to reclaim
what is hers, she fulfills her life-long dream
of “returning” to Palestine. Slowly she is
taken apart by the reality around her and is
forced to confront her own internal anger. She
meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition,
contrary to hers, is to leave forever. Tired of
the constraints that dictate their lives, they
know in order to be free, they must take things
into their own hands, even if it’s
illegal.
This film is the fourth in the "Voices of Palestine" Summer 2009 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 | 29 July | 6:30
p.m.
Made
in Palestine
Director: Benoit Faiveley /
15 minutes /
2008
Directed
by French journalist Benoit Faiveley, this
documentary follows the industry and symbolism
of the Keffiyah, the traditional headdress of
Palestine. The Keffiyah has seeped into popular
western culture and at the same time fallen
victim to the strict trade restrictions
throughout the West Bank and cheaper Chinese
imports. Made in Palestine
explores the changing landscape of the
Keffiyah trade, how it impacts the 76-year-old
man who is the only remaining manufacturer
within Palestine, and how its symbolism has
developed throughout the recent changes in the
West Bank.
Chronicles of a Refugee: Identity
Without a Homeland
Director: Perla Issa, Aseel
Mansour and Adam Shapiro / 78 minutes /
2008
http://www.chroniclesofarefugee.org/
Chronicles of a Refugee: Identity
Without a Homeland, the fourth part of
the series, starts to unpack the meaning and
attributes of Palestinian identity today, given
the experience of 60 years of dispossession and
refugee status around the world. Taboo
subjects, such as the role of refugee camps and
the usefulness of citizenship, are debated by
those who live with the consequences of
decisions taken about these matters. Chronicles of a
Refugee is a 6-part documentary
series looking at the global Palestinian
refugee experience over the last 60
years.
The series will be
available for purchase at the
screening.
These
films are the fifth and sixth in the "Voices of
Palestine" Summer 2009 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 | 5 August | 6:30
p.m.
Wounds of the Heart: An Artist and Her
Nation
Director: John Halaka / 52
minutes /
2009
http://www.sittingcrowproductions.com/WoundsOfTheHeart.html
Born and
raised in the village of Tarsheha in the
Galilee, Rana Bishara is a Palestinian visual
artist whose creative practice includes
sculpture, installation work and performance
art. Her artwork functions simultaneously as an
elegy to the Palestinian Nakba (the Arabic term
for "The Great Disaster" that began in 1948),
an unmasking of the brutality of the Israeli
occupation of Palestine and a critique of the
biased Western media’s depiction of the
Palestinians’ struggle against their occupiers.
The objects employed in her artwork perform as
surrogates for the body and spirit of Palestine
and its people. Her work, in both its physical
and conceptual manifestations, is an expression
of the inseparable blending of the personal and
political experiences that define the identity
of every Palestinian.
This film is the last in the "Voices of Palestine" Summer 2009 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.