DARC’s Cinema for Palestine series is presenting Cinema Politica’s Fluid Frames from the Palestinian Diaspora collection.
Curated by Palestinian filmmaker Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy, the collection features films that explore the refusal of right of return to the Palestinian homeland and the bitter irony of living inside Canada’s settler-colonial state.
Don’t miss this FREE screening in the Microcinema.
FEATURED FILMS:
VIBRATIONS FROM GAZA by Rehab Nazzal, 2023
Vibrations from Gaza offers a glimpse into the experiences of Deaf children in the colonized and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine.
I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT by Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy, 2017
An experimental short that combines text and film to explore the simple desire to travel, through the cultural and political realities of being Palestinian.
P IS FOR PALESTINE by Muhammad Nour-Elkhairy, 2017
Language is political in this subtle short film, which depicts how phonetics are coded socially and economically.
ZINCO by Serene Husni, 2021
An urban chronicle of the construction material used in building Palestinian refugee homes in Al Talbieh Camp in Jordan.
BODIES IN MOTION by Rehab Nazzal, 2017
An artistic study of the bodily movement of the Palestinian youth while protesting the Israeli military occupation forces during the 2015-2016 Uprising.
CANADA PARK by Razan Alsalah, 2019
An exile, unable to return to Palestine, becomes a digital spectre floating over the infrastructure of Israeli military occupation in Palestine.
YOUR FATHER WAS BORN 100 YEAR OLD, AND SO WAS THE NAQBA by Razan Alsalah, 2018
An experimental short film on displacement and returning to Palestine via Google Streetview.
SOMETHING FROM THERE by Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, 2017
This short film considers the complicated implications of fighting to belong to a land after displacement.
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