Film
Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2019: Cinema of the Palestinian Revolution + Q&A
- Director
- Various
- Certificate
- TBA
- Running Time
- 52 mins
In 1982, the Palestine Film Unit archive was destroyed, and its contents stolen during the Israeli invasion of Beirut. It is now known that the Israeli military seized it.
Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University have participated in the work of digitising and restoring films which were produced in the Revolution in the 1960s and 70s – a lost part of Palestinian culture.
Dr. Anandi Ramamurthy, the lead researcher who has given these films a new life, gives context and historical background to the following selected films in this Bristol Palestine Film Festival event:
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Zahrat Al-Madain aka The Flower of all Cities 7 mins
Dir. Mustafa Abu Ali
A rare example of work from one of the founding fathers of Palestinian Cinema Hani Jawharieh. Produced as part of a cinematic magazine, “The Flower of all Cities”, the film presents a harmonious picture of Palestinian civil life that is disturbed by the Israeli army’s occupation of the city following the 1967 war with Israel.
Palestine in the Eye 28 mins
Dir. Mustafa Abu Ali
A documentary reflecting on the profound impact of Hani Jawharieh through interviews with family, colleagues and his own cinematography, including the moment of his death which he shot with his own camera.
The Urgent Call of Palestine 5 mins
Dir. Ismail Shammout
A short film following the making of a solidarity song by the Palestinian Egyptian singer Zeinab Shaath to announce the most urgent call of Palestine. The song and the words of Kamal Nasser that break through the ballad continue to hold striking relevance today.
Glow of Memories 12mins
Dir. Ismail Shammout
Centring around a Palestinian man who is the subject Shammout’s painting Memories and Fire. The film acts to unravel his memories using archival photographs and Shammout’s own painting to tell the story of Palestinian experience and resistance.
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