The largest festival of its kind in Europe; with a selection of vital documentary, fiction, art, and animation work by Palestinians, or about Palestine.
Opening with Elia Suleiman’s latest feature The Time That Remains, festival highlights include the first Palestinian animation (Fatenah, Ahmad Habash), the UK premieres of Eyal Sivan’s groundbreaking documentary Jaffa: The Orange’s Clockwork and Kamal Aljafari’s astonishing Port of Memory.
Q&A sessions with visiting artists including Najwa Najjar (screening debut feature Pomegranates and Myrrh), Nasri Hajjaj (UK premier of documentary As The Poet Said, an elegiac tribute to the late Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish), Mohamad Soueid (UK premier of My Heart Beats Only for Her, the doc latest from Lebanon's iconoclastic film essayist) and Rachel Leah Jones (with her myth-busting documentary Ashkenaz).... plus much more..
Dozens of thematic sessions highlight new video art, profile iconoclastic Palestinian women now and in history, examine the aftermath of last year’s war on the Gaza Strip, and bring together rarely screened work from Palestine , Japan , Lebanon , and Vietnam .
Complemented by a photo exhibition by Palestinian artists Noel Jabbour and Taysir Batniji in the Barbican Foyer.
PROGRAMME, TICKETING, AND DOWNLOADABLE BROCHURE ONLINE. TICKETS ON SALE NOW....
http://www.palestinefilm.org/
Opening with Elia Suleiman’s latest feature The Time That Remains, festival highlights include the first Palestinian animation (Fatenah, Ahmad Habash), the UK premieres of Eyal Sivan’s groundbreaking documentary Jaffa: The Orange’s Clockwork and Kamal Aljafari’s astonishing Port of Memory.
Q&A sessions with visiting artists including Najwa Najjar (screening debut feature Pomegranates and Myrrh), Nasri Hajjaj (UK premier of documentary As The Poet Said, an elegiac tribute to the late Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish), Mohamad Soueid (UK premier of My Heart Beats Only for Her, the doc latest from Lebanon's iconoclastic film essayist) and Rachel Leah Jones (with her myth-busting documentary Ashkenaz).... plus much more..
Dozens of thematic sessions highlight new video art, profile iconoclastic Palestinian women now and in history, examine the aftermath of last year’s war on the Gaza Strip, and bring together rarely screened work from Palestine , Japan , Lebanon , and Vietnam .
Complemented by a photo exhibition by Palestinian artists Noel Jabbour and Taysir Batniji in the Barbican Foyer.
PROGRAMME, TICKETING, AND DOWNLOADABLE BROCHURE ONLINE. TICKETS ON SALE NOW....
http://www.palestinefilm.org/
Start Time:
Friday, April 30, 2010 at 3:15pm
End Time: Friday, May 14, 2010 at 6:15pm
Location: Barbican Cinema and SOAS
