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Past Summer Film Series
2009
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.
2008
Voices of Palestine:
Summer 2008 Film Series
Wednesdays | 25 June - 13
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, see http://thejerusalemfund.org/ht/d/sp/i/191/pid/191
. For all other
inquiries, call the Jerusalem Fund at (202)
338-1958, or email info@thejerusalemfund.org
.
Wednesday | 25
June | 6:30 p.m.
The Presence of
Absence in the Ruins of Kafr Bir'im
Director:
John Halaka / 60 minutes / 2007
Wednesday | 2 July |
6:30 p.m.
Open
Heart
Director: Claire Fowler / 22 minutes /
2006
With Blood (Bidam)
Directors: Juliana Fredman, Dan
O'Reilly-Rowe / 57 minutes / 2006
Wednesday | 9 July | 6:30
p.m.
Kemo Sabe
Director: Rana
Kazkaz / 12 minutes / 2005
Driving to
Zigzigland
Directors: Nicole
Ballivian / 92 minutes / 2006
Wednesday
| 16 July | 6:30 p.m.
USA Vs.
Al-Arian
Director: Line
Halvorsen / 99 minutes / 2007
Wednesday | 23
July | 6:30 p.m.
Swings
Director: Basil Ramsis / 98 minutes /
2007
Wednesday | 30
July | 6:30 p.m.
The Color of
Olives
Director: Carolina Rivas / 97 minutes
/ 2006
Wednesday | 6 August
| 6:30 p.m.
Secret Hebron:
The School Run
Director: Donna
Baillie / 28 minutes / 2003
Jerusalem: The
East Side Story
Director: Mohammed Alatar / 57 minutes
/ 2008
Wednesday | 13 August |
6:30 p.m.
The
Roof
Director: Kamal Al
Jafari / 61 minutes / 2007
Wednesday | 25
June | 6:30 p.m.
The
Presence of Absence in the Ruins of Kafr
Bir'im
Director:
John Halaka / 60 minutes / 2007
Shot
on location in the ruins and cemetery of Kafr
Bir'im, a Palestinian
village located in the Northern Galilee, the
film introduces the viewer
to Mr. Ibrahim Essa, an elderly poet who
survived the ethnic cleansing
of his village in 1948. Through his
narrative and poetry, Ibrahim Issa
recounts his experiences as a youth in the
village, the hardships of a
life in exile and the intense emotional,
physical and historical
connections to the land that he shares with the
5,000,000 Palestinians
who currently live in the Palestinian Diaspora.
This
film is the first in the "Voices of Palestine"
Summer 2008 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 r.s.v.p.
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 | 2
July | 6:30 p.m.
Open
Heart
Director: Claire Fowler / 22 minutes /
2006
Four
years ago Iham and Jihad lost their third child
on the operating table.
Now their 9 month old son Jamal's life is
threatened by congenital
heart disease. With the aid of the
charity The Palestine Children's
Relief Fund (PCRF), a British surgeon's arrival
in Palestine offers
hope for the future. But first the Samara
family must travel from their
home in the West Bank and through Israeli
checkpoints to Makassed
hospital in Jerusalem, before the real journey
can even begin.
With
Blood (Bidam)
Directors: Juliana
Fredman, Dan O'Reilly-Rowe / 57 minutes / 2006
*Dan O'Reilly-Rowe will be present
Bidam (With
Blood)
follows ordinary people's efforts to overcome
extraordinary obstacles
in pursuit of routine health care in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip. Shot
on location with patients and health workers
over seven months in an
intimate verite style, this film offers a
thought-provoking,
compassionate perspective on life in the
Occupied Palestinian
Territories. With Blood weaves together
several storylines, following
subjects whose personal situations illustrate
aspects of the central
theme of health care under military occupation.
These two films will be shown together as the second event in the "Voices of Palestine" Summer 2008 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 r.s.v.p. 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 | 9 July | 6:30
p.m.
Kemo Sabe
Director: Rana
Kazkaz / 12 minutes / 2005
Kemo Sabe
tells the story of Yussef, a six year old boy
who longs to be the
Cowboy instead of the Indian on the
playground. Daring to challenge
the role his race has determined, Yussef learns
the playground rules of
becoming a Cowboy: he needs blue jeans and a
belt.
Driving to Zigzigland
Director: Nicole
Ballivian / 92 minutes / 2006
A chronicle of a day
in the life of a Palestinian cab driver in Los
Angeles, Driving to Zigzigland
portrays the social struggle of the Arab
immigrant in post-9/11
America. An unceasing flow of passengers
ride in Bashar's taxi and
give
