mm מ"מ

27.11
28.11
29.11
21:00 – 23:00
10:00 – 11:30
15:00 – 16:00
Opening event
Screening four films
produced especially for this
festival
Cinema Palestine
Dir.: Tim Schwab
Where Should the Birds Fly
Dir.: Fida Qishta
12:00 – 14:00
16:30 – 17:45
Panel: Nakba and
Return in Palestinian
and Israeli Cinema
Flying Paper
Dir.: Nitin Sawhney & Roger Hill
[Thursday]
The Iris Blooms in May
Dir.: Michael Kaminer
The National Park
Dir.: Amir Yatziv
Welcome Back
Dir.: Guy Königstein
All Rights Reserved
Dir: Laila Bettermann &
Anael Resnick
[Friday]
‫מ"מ‬
‫ممل‬
[Saturday]
48
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The 2nd International Film Festival
on Nakba and Return
‫الدولي الثاني ألفالم‬
‫املهرجان‬
ّ
‫النكبة والعودة‬
‫הפסטיבל הבינלאומי השני‬
‫לסרטי נכבה ושיבה‬
18:00 – 19:00
14:30 – 16:00
A World Not Ours
Dir.: Mahdi Fleifel
1948
Dir.: Mohammad Bakri
27-29.11.2014
Tel Aviv Cinematheque
Al-Saraya Theater in Jaffa
19:00 – 21:00
16:30 – 17:45
Turtle's Rage
Dir.: Pary El-Qalqili
Following the screening,
a panel discussion will be
held with the filmmakers.
Ismail
Dir.: Nora Alsharif
After the film, a lecture on
Nakba and refugeehood
in Palestinian art - the first
generation as a test case
[Al-Saraya Theater]
21:30 – 23:00
A People without Land
Dir.: Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon
The festival takes place around November 29, marking the
67th anniversary of the 1947 UN Resolution on the Partition
of Palestine. The Partition Plan fixated the idea of partition
and separation between Jews and Arabs in historical
Palestine and was a key milestone in the ongoing conflict
and the uprooting of hundreds of thousands, who have by
now become millions of Palestinian refugees. The festival
seeks to creatively challenge the partition concept and
suggest new pathways for just and equitable life for all of
this divided country's present inhabitants and refugees.
All films will be screened at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque,
except for the film “Ismail”, that will be screened at AlSaraya Theater in Jaffa
Tel Aviv Cinematheque: Shprintsak St 2. Tickets at the box
offices on screening day or at the Cinematheque website.
Free for subscribers
Al-Saraya theater: Jaffa's old city (near the Hammam)
Tickets at the box offices on screening day
For further details please contact us at:
[email protected] / 03-6953155
[From the movie Ismail]
Panel: Nakba and Return in Palestinian
and Israeli Cinema
Speakers: Dr. Khalil Rinnawi (Departments
of Communication and Sociology, College of
Management Academic Sudies), Rachel Leah
Jones (documentary filmmaker), Dr. Itay
Harap (Department of Film and Television,
Tel Aviv University).
(120 min. the panel will be in Heb)
Opening Event
Screening four films produced especially for this festival. Following the screening,
a panel discussion will be held with the filmmakers.
Each film is 10 minutes long, in Hebrew and Arabic with subtitles in both languages.
The Iris Blooms in May
Dir.: Michael Kaminer
Palestine/Israel, 2014
Mariam Abu-Latifa was born 86 years ago
in the village of Sar’a. Michael was born in
1964 in Kibbutz Tzor’a, years after the houses
moved from Sar’a to the nearby valley. As a
child, he used to walk up to the Village Chief’s
House up on the mountain. Nobody told him
and his friends that this house belonged to
other people. Michael ventures on a journey
to discover the hidden secret. At age 20, in
1948, Mariam and her family were expelled
from the village. Before the expulsion, she
had lost a baby who was buried in Sar’a,
where the iris blooms in May.
Welcome Back
Dir.: Guy Königstein
Israel, 2014
In the midst of the recent round of violence in
Southern Israel, the filmmaker invites a group
of friends to the rural community where he
was born, in the Upper Galilee, to organize a
reception for Palestinian returnees. How will
the group face this challenge?
The National Park
Dir.: Amir Yatziv
Palestine/Israel, 2014
Computer animation based on dozens of
structures in uprooted Palestinian villages,
laser scanned and sequenced to form a single
virtual village. A female character describes
the view - a description borrowed from
brochures of so-called National Parks built
over the ruins of these villages.
All Rights Reserved
Dir : Laila Bettermann & Anael Resnick
Palestine/Israel, 2014
Taboo - Social prohibition against certain
names, objects, activities, people and
conversation subjects considered undesirable
in a certain community. Violating a taboo is
considered a despicable act.
Tabu (Tapu) - In Ottoman law, property
title deed.
When the walls of the house and its tenants
have something to tell but are silenced by the
taboo, objects have to speak in their stead. A
house turns into a tile, a landlord into a lock
and a meeting into a cup of coffee.
CINEMA PALESTINE
Dir.: Tim Schwab
Canada, 2014
79 min. Arabic & Eng. Eng & Arabic sub
Cinema Palestine is a feature-length
documentary on several generations of
Palestinian filmmakers and media artists.
Told through intimate interviews with
Palestinian artists living in the Middle East,
North America and Europe, and featuring
excerpts from their works, the film explores
personal experiences, artistic development,
and sociopolitical concerns, as well as the
relationship to the landscape and what it
means to be a Palestinian artist in the context
of the struggle for nationhood.
The Turtle’s Rage
Dir.: Pary El-Qalqili
Germany, 2012
70 min. German & Arabic. Eng sub
The Turtle’s Rage tells the story of an
enigmatic man, whose life is shaped by flight
and expulsion, exile, and the failed attempt
to return to Palestine. His is a life torn by
the Israel-Palestine conflict. It is the story
of the director’s father and of a daughter’s
search for answers. It is the story of their
journey together through Egypt, Palestine and
Jordan. A story so nuanced as to thwart the
simplified notions of victim and perpetrator,
good and evil, black and white.
Flying Paper
Dir.: Nitin Sawhney and Roger Hill
Gaza, 2013-2014
71 min. Arabic & Eng. Arabic & Eng sub
Flying Paper is the story of Palestinian
children in Gaza engaged in kite making and
flying. The film follows Musa, a charismatic
teenaged kite-maker, and Abeer, an aspiring
young journalist. Along with thousands of
other children, they try to break the Guinness
World Record for the most kites ever flown.
The film showcases the creative resilience
– and resistance – of these children, despite
the difficult daily realities.
Watch the trailer
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Ismail
Dir.: Nora Alsharif
Jordan, 2013
28 min. Arabic. Eng sub
Inspired by a day in the life of Palestinian
painter Ismail Shammout (1930-2006), Ismail
tells the compelling story of a young Palestinian
struggling to support his parents after their
expulsion to a refugee camp in 1948.
Despite the wretched living conditions he
holds on to his dream to go to Rome to study
painting. One day he and his little brother
heedlessly enter a minefield. As Ismail faces
death, and in his struggle to save himself and
his brother, we discover his true spirit.
Following lecture: Dr. Ismail Nashef / Nakba
and refugeehood in Palestinian art - the
first generation as a test case (45 min in Arabic).
[Al-Saraya Theater, Ticket price: 20 NIS]
Watch the trailer
A World Not Ours
Dir.: Mahdi Fleifel
UK, Lebanon, Denmark, Palestine,
UAE, 2012
93 min. Arabic & Eng. Eng sub
A World Not Ours is an intimate, humorous
portrait of life in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee
camp in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth
of personal recordings, family archives, and
historical footage, the film is an illuminating
study of belonging, friendship, and family.
Filmed over more than 20 years by three
generations of the same family, A World
Not Ours is more than a family portrait;
it documents what is being forgotten,
and marks what must not be erased from
collective memory.
Watch the trailer
Where Should the Birds Fly
Dir.: Fida Qishta
Gaza, 2012
58 min. Arabic & Eng. Eng sub
This is the first film about Gaza made by
Palestinians living under the Israeli siege.
It is the story of two young women, survivors
of Israel’s attack in 2008-9. Mona Samouni,
now 12 years old, and the filmmaker, Fida
Qishta, now 27, represent the spirit and
future of Palestinians. The film is a visual
documentation of the Goldstone Report. More
than that, it reveals the strength and hope,
the humanity and humor that flourish in Gaza.
Few films have documented so powerfully and
personally the impact of modern warfare and
sanctions on a civilian population.
Watch the trailer
1948
Dir.: Mohammad Bakri
Palestine, 1998
54 min. Arabic. Heb sub
The film1948 is a record of memories of
a group of elderly Arabs. The director,
Mohammad Bakri, employs poems by
Mahmoud Darwish. In their own words,
the Palestinians interviewed describe the
moments when they became refugees. They
described the brutality in which they were
deported, or the fear of massacre that made
them and their families flee for their lives.
They speak without blame or even protest.
A People Without a Land
Dir.: Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon
USA, 2014
79 min. Arabic, Heb & Eng. Heb sub
A compelling documentary that tells the
story of individuals who have moved beyond
traditional notions of Zionism and are
working to build a future based on integration
rather than separation.
Watch the trailer