Short Films By Palestinian Filmmakers (Emergence: A Brief Introduction to Palestinian Cinema) September 28, 2006

SHORT FILMS BY PALESTINIAN FILMMAKERS
Series: Emergence: A Brief Introduction to Palestinian Cinema
Runtime: 84

A selection of extraordinary short works by an emerging generation of filmmakers from across the Palestinian diaspora.

Four Songs for Palestine / Arba'a Aghani Li Filasteen
Nada El-Yassir, Palestine, 2001; 13m
Every day is a bad-news day in a tiny place in this world called Palestine. Death has become very much part of daily life on the West Bank and Gaza. A Palestinian woman goes through the daily routines of eating, drinking, and feeding her son while the news of the conflict permeates her mundane chores.

Like Twenty Impossibles / Ka'inna 'Ashrun Mustaheel
Annemarie Jacir, Palestine/USA, 2003; 17m
In a landscape now interrupted by military checkpoints, a group of Palestinian filmmakers attempt to reach Jerusalem. When they decide to avoid a closed checkpoint by taking an unused side road, the landscape unravels, and the passengers are slowly taken apart by the mundane brutality of military occupation. Like Twenty Impossibles is both a visual poem and a narrative, questioning the space between fiction and reality, and the politics of art and resistance. (2003 Cannes Film Festival)

Jenin, Jenin
Muhammad Bakri,Palestine, 2002; 54m
A few days after the April 2001 invasion of the Jenin refugee camp by the Israeli military, a camera crew shoots at the site: it captures the camp at a time when the people still have not fully understood what happened. The film is not an informational report about these events, but a description of the traces left by the events that marked the souls of the inhabitants. It depicts resistance, heroism and victory despite disasters, despite victims, and despite the destruction of lives. (2003 Locarno Film Festival)

Followed by a Q&A with Columbia University Professor Hamid Dabashi

Official Website: http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/emergence/shortfilmsbypalestinianfilmmakers.html