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Summer 2010 Film Series
Wednesdays | 14 July - 11 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 | 14 July | 6:30
p.m.
Zindeeq
Director: Michel Khleifi / 85 minutes / 2009
Wednesday | 21 July | 6:30
p.m.
Aisheen (Still Alive in
Gaza)
Director: Nicolas Wadimoff
/ 85 minutes /
2010
Wednesday | 28 July | 6:30 p.m.
Lesh Sabreen?
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
Wednesday | 14 July | 6:30
p.m.
Zindeeq
Director: Michel
Khleifi / 85 minutes / 2009
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.
Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza)
Director: Nicolas Wadimoff / 85 minutes / 2010
View Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbdokBK_tGw&feature=related
Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) tells the story about the wait after the disaster. The wait for a better future inside the biggest prison in the world where planes still prowl around above the heads of its people, bombings don't stop, men and women roam around in the ruins and fishermen savor the only fish caught by their nets in this now forbidden sea. Amidst all of this pain, suffering, lack of resources and support, families struggle to pick up the pieces. From a family of farmers lamenting the past while gathering wood from the 56 olive trees that have been their livelihood for generations, a mother dressing the wounds of her son who dreams of becoming a martyr to an adolescent who is discretely mourning her mother.
This film is the second 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 | 28 July | 6:30 p.m.
Lesh Sabreen?
Director: Muayad Alayan / 20 minutes / 2009
http://www.leshsabreen.com
Lesh Sabreen? tells the story of two young lovers as they navigate dreams and dead-ends in their socially-conservative and Israeli-controlled community. The film illustrates the several layers of authority, from the patriarchal social norms and taboos to economic pressures and the military occupation continually facing young Arab Jerusalemites.
Degrees of Incarceration
Director: Amahl Bishara / 59 minutes / 2009
http://www.degreesofincarceration.com
Degrees of Incarceration explores the effects of political imprisonment on the Palestinian community of Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem. Through observational footage and interviews filmed over the course of six years, the documentary traces how a group of youth are imprisoned for protesting against the building of the separation wall around their refugee camp and addresses how imprisonment changes their lives after their release. Scenes of the everyday ways families cope reveal the emotional intensity of this situation.
These
films are the third and fourth 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 | 4 August | 6:30 p.m.
Corner Store
Director: Katherine Bruens / Work in progress, in post-production
View Trailer: http://vimeo.com/10874355
Corner Store
is the true story of Yousef Elhaj:
beloved shop owner, Palestinian immigrant and
long-distance father. Yousef left his wife and
three small children in Palestine ten years ago
to start a new life for them all in San
Francisco. The film profiles Yousef’s life in
San Francisco and the challenges of the
immigration process for his family. It
then follows his journey back to his fractured
homeland to finally reunite with his wife and
kids. But a lot has changed, and Yousef
must confront the current realities in both his
family and his country and decide if a new life
in America is really still the right path for
them to take. This film being
screened is a work in progress.
This film is the fifth 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 | 11 August | 6:30 p.m.
Laila’s Birthday (Eid Milad Laila)
Director: Rashid Masharawi / 71 minutes / 2008
"At eight o'clock, it's Laila's birthday, okay?" Palestinian judge turned cab driver Abu Laila's wife reminds her husband. But on his young daughter's birthday, like any day, Abu Laila faces a nerve-wracking shift in a Ramallah yellow cab armed only with an ex-jurist's misplaced pride, a father's loyalty and a sticker reminding passengers that smoking and carrying AK-47's are prohibited. Rather than address politics or document holy war heroics and villainy, Laila's Birthday focuses on the toll that the unending Israeli-Palestinian conflict extracts from civilians clinging to both employment and a semblance of normal life amidst chaos and corruption, missile attacks and bursts of gunfire.
This film is the last 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