Palestine libre
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A Fidai Film
Duration: 2h34
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In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, _A Fidai Film_ explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.
Palestinian Women
Duration: 22 minutes
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Filmmaker Jocelyne Saab gives a voice to Palestinian women, often overlooked victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Paradiso, XXXI, 108
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_Paradiso, XXXI, 108_ ironically questions our view of war and occupation through archival footage from the Israeli army in the 1960s and 1970s. Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari creates a montage revealing scenes where acts of war appear simultaneously comic, mundane, and surreal, inviting a deep reflection on the representation of violence and power.
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
Duration: 3h38What is a military occupation? Through the testimonies of soldiers who carried it out, Avi Mograbi reveals the mechanisms of a colonialist occupation and sheds light on the logic behind such practices. In this exposé, the filmmaker refers to the 54 years of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to outline a “brief manual of military occupation.”
Canada Park
Google Maps, Wikipedia, and early 20th-century colonial landscape photography provide the material for this absorbing techno-meditation on the status of Palestine and the notion of the "Holy Land."
Jenin, Jenin
In April 2002, the Israeli army launched Operation Defensive Shield and reoccupied the entire West Bank. The Jenin refugee camp was invaded and journalists and humanitarian organisations were denied access for several days. The Palestinians and many NGOs accused Israel of war crimes. Israel refused access to the UN fact-finding mission... Mohammad Bakri decided to enter the camp in spite of eve...
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
Duration: 1h43_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
In the Desert - Omar's Dream
_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
Foragers
_Foragers_ depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. The restrictions prohibit the collection of the artichoke-like ’akkoub an...
Samouni Road
In the rural outskirts of Gaza City a small community of farmers, the extended Samouni family, is about to celebrate a wedding. It’s going to be the first celebration since the latest war. Amal, Fuad, their brothers and cousins have lost their parents, their houses and their olive trees. The neighborhood where they live is being rebuilt. As they replant trees and plow fields, they face their mo...
How I Learned to Overcome My Fear and Love Arik Sharon
How I Learned to Overcome My Fear and Love Arik Sharon
Price: CAD$3.00As the 1996 elections approach, director Avi Mograbi sets out to make a documentary about a figure both admired and disliked, a former minister and a legendary army general, Ariel Sharon. Mograbi, who was a conscientious objector to the 1982 Lebanon War, has a very personal point of view on Sharon, the mastermind of that war. Nevertheless, while making the film, he seems to begin to see Sharon ...
Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi
A director is hired to make a film about the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel. During the shooting, he realizes that two other anniversaries are taking place at the same time: his own and the Nakba, the "catastrophe" for the Palestinians. At the same time, he recounts the problems caused by a piece of land he bought several years ago. The director is Avi Mograbi himself and it ...
Z 32
A former Israeli soldier who participated in a revenge operation where two Palestinian policemen were murdered seeks forgiveness for what he has done. His girlfriend does not think it is that simple, and she raises issues he is yet not ready to address. The soldier willingly testifies in front of the camera as long as his identity is concealed. While the filmmaker keeps looking for the right so...
An Unusual Summer
Following an act of vandalism, the father of the Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari decides to install a surveillance camera in order to record the scenes unfolding in front of his house.
A Fidai Film
Duration: 2h34
Subscription access
In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, _A Fidai Film_ explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.
Palestinian Women
Duration: 22 minutes
Subscription access
Filmmaker Jocelyne Saab gives a voice to Palestinian women, often overlooked victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Paradiso, XXXI, 108
Subscription access
_Paradiso, XXXI, 108_ ironically questions our view of war and occupation through archival footage from the Israeli army in the 1960s and 1970s. Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari creates a montage revealing scenes where acts of war appear simultaneously comic, mundane, and surreal, inviting a deep reflection on the representation of violence and power.
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
Duration: 3h38What is a military occupation? Through the testimonies of soldiers who carried it out, Avi Mograbi reveals the mechanisms of a colonialist occupation and sheds light on the logic behind such practices. In this exposé, the filmmaker refers to the 54 years of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to outline a “brief manual of military occupation.”
Canada Park
Google Maps, Wikipedia, and early 20th-century colonial landscape photography provide the material for this absorbing techno-meditation on the status of Palestine and the notion of the "Holy Land."
Jenin, Jenin
In April 2002, the Israeli army launched Operation Defensive Shield and reoccupied the entire West Bank. The Jenin refugee camp was invaded and journalists and humanitarian organisations were denied access for several days. The Palestinians and many NGOs accused Israel of war crimes. Israel refused access to the UN fact-finding mission... Mohammad Bakri decided to enter the camp in spite of eve...
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
Duration: 1h43_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
In the Desert - Omar's Dream
_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
Foragers
_Foragers_ depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. The restrictions prohibit the collection of the artichoke-like ’akkoub an...
Samouni Road
In the rural outskirts of Gaza City a small community of farmers, the extended Samouni family, is about to celebrate a wedding. It’s going to be the first celebration since the latest war. Amal, Fuad, their brothers and cousins have lost their parents, their houses and their olive trees. The neighborhood where they live is being rebuilt. As they replant trees and plow fields, they face their mo...
How I Learned to Overcome My Fear and Love Arik Sharon
How I Learned to Overcome My Fear and Love Arik Sharon
Price: CAD$3.00As the 1996 elections approach, director Avi Mograbi sets out to make a documentary about a figure both admired and disliked, a former minister and a legendary army general, Ariel Sharon. Mograbi, who was a conscientious objector to the 1982 Lebanon War, has a very personal point of view on Sharon, the mastermind of that war. Nevertheless, while making the film, he seems to begin to see Sharon ...
Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi
A director is hired to make a film about the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel. During the shooting, he realizes that two other anniversaries are taking place at the same time: his own and the Nakba, the "catastrophe" for the Palestinians. At the same time, he recounts the problems caused by a piece of land he bought several years ago. The director is Avi Mograbi himself and it ...
Z 32
A former Israeli soldier who participated in a revenge operation where two Palestinian policemen were murdered seeks forgiveness for what he has done. His girlfriend does not think it is that simple, and she raises issues he is yet not ready to address. The soldier willingly testifies in front of the camera as long as his identity is concealed. While the filmmaker keeps looking for the right so...
An Unusual Summer
Following an act of vandalism, the father of the Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari decides to install a surveillance camera in order to record the scenes unfolding in front of his house.
