Palestinian filmmaker Ahmed Mansour’s new film, “Angel of Gaza,” tells the story of a Gazan family’s experience with war, separation, and diaspora through a focus on the family’s young daughter. Nadia Yaqub writes that the film raises troubling political questions about the steadfastness which for decades has been a cornerstone of Palestinian resistance. What does it mean for the Palestinian struggle that families like Malak’s must leave Palestine to survive?
Over 200 people from the entertainment industry have signed a letter denouncing the Palestinian-led boycott…
Netflix has added 32 Palestinian films to its streaming service. Pro-Israel groups have attacked the move because many of the directors support BDS.
The Middle East Union festival is a literary festival that includes musical and queer performances, readings, live panels, and online discussions, held in Berlin from August 12 to 15.
In Ben Grayzel’s documentary about going to Israel on Birthright indoctrination program in 2019, Wael, a Palestinian student, tells him about the absurdity of Birthright. He says it’s crazy that an American Jew who has never come close to the Middle East has such a birthright. most of my cousins are Palestinian and maybe 90 percent cannot enter Palestine,” he says. “That doesn’t make sense.”
Last week an Israeli district court ruled against a Palestinian filmmaker and actor, Mohammad Bakri in a defamation and libel case, ordering him to pay hefty compensation to an officer in the Israeli military who was accused of carrying out war crimes in the 2002 documentary “Jenin, Jenin.” Ramzy Baroud says the verdict can be understood within two contexts: one, Israel’s regime of censorship aimed at silencing any criticism of the Israeli occupation and apartheid and, two, Israel’s fear of a truly independent Palestinian narrative.
In its sixth year, the Leeds Palestinian Film Festival will feature discussions with filmmakers Annemarie Jacir and Saeed Taji Farouky, as well as a panel discussion including US filmmaker and social-justice activist Dr. Alice Rothchild to accompany the UK Premiere of documentary Jews Step Forward.
Palestinian rights organizations, filmmakers, other artists and cultural organizations call on Tribeca Enterprises to exclude the Jerusalem Film Festival from the We Are One film festival, and we urge conscientious filmmakers to withdraw if it does not, due to the the festival’s blatant complicity in lsrael’s human rights violations.
Four years after working on the feature documentary project “Gaza,” Mondoweiss’ Walaa Ghussein interviews directors Andrew McConnell and Garry Keane. McConnell tells her, “we both agreed that the best way to tell people about Gaza is to let the people of Gaza tell the story for themselves because we rarely see that.”
The film “The Voice of Ahmad” is screening in Israel, following the journey of Ahmad Masrawa, one of hundreds of Palestinian teenagers in Israel who were adopted by a kibbutz, agricultural communes that were at the core of the Zionist movement’s efforts to Judaize lands just stolen from the Palestinian people.