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heavenlydark · 6 months

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🎬 Tale of the Three Jewels 1995, dir. Michel Khleifi

#film #films #tale of the three jewels #screencaps #palestine #palestinian film #free palestine

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fiercynn · 6 months

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queer palestinian short film: "houria"

queer short cuts is a biweekly newsletter where i share queer & trans short film recommendations. i’m featuring some of my favorite films on tumblr because why not

palestine | 7 minutes | 2010 | experimental short film audio in arabic; english subtitles embedded

houria | حـ(و)ـرية, an experimental film directed by raafat hattab, intercuts between a violinist (boodi el esawi) playing on a beach at manshiye who is joined unexpectedly by a mermaid (played by raafat hattab himself), a person getting their chest tattooed, and an interview with hattab’s grandmother, yousra, talking about her parents’ flight from their home in jamaseen al-garbi when she was a baby, during the 1948 nakba (��catastrophe”), during which thousands of palestinians were killed and an estimated 700,000 were displaced because of Israeli ethnic cleansing. The gender fluidity of hattab’s mermaid, the permanence of the tattoo, and the impermanence of palestinian life and homeland in yousra’s story come together to illustrate the paradoxes and grief of dislocation that palestinians face daily. - deepa's full review, including content notes at the end

watch on youtube, and learn more about creator raafat hattab, who is a queer palestinian interdisciplinary artist based in tel aviv, at his website

#queer short cuts #free palestine #queer film #short film #palestine #palestinian film #palestinian queer film #experimental film #raafat hattab #boodi el esawi #undescribed #knowing me knowing queue

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parm4carm · 6 months

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habibi rasak kharban (2011), dir. susan youssef

palestine film institute

#palestine film institute #palestine #free palestine #palestinian film #habibi 2011 #habibi rasak kharban #darling something's wrong with your head #film screencaps #sorry to spam this film is just so beautiful and so devastating

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augustheir · 2 months

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The Time That Remains (2009) dir. Elia Suleiman, cinematography by Marc-André Batigne

#the time that remains #elia suleiman #marc-andre batigne #cinematography #film screencaps #film stills #palestine #palestinian film

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hassanatforusmk · 4 months

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What is verified cannot be brushed off as conspiracy theory !!

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jyndor · 3 months

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spoilers for farha, which you all should watch but is very, very brutal even if it is not terribly graphic.

tw: infant murder, settler colonial violence. read with caution.

the scene where the one israeli genocider doesn't end up killing the infant is such a powerful scene for a number of reasons. but one aspect of it that sticks out to me is that when his commanding genocider tells him not to "waste a bullet" and he can't go through with curb stomping the fucking newborn to death, he ultimately condemns the baby to a crueler death - to starve to death, alone in the night, beside his family's bodies.

it is of course a crueler death, and I am sure the soldier is aware of what will become of that baby when he places the kerchief over his face and walks away. but this moment is not about the soldier being decent or kind at all, of course - if he was halfway decent he would die rather than kill that baby.

he doesn't care what will happen to that baby as long as he doesn't have to bear witness to it. to cover the baby's face is to cover his eyes to the cruelty of his and by extension israel's actions. it makes him uncomfortable to think of curb stomping a baby to death, but not of starving him. of leaving him alone and screaming.

he doesn't even consider for a second disobeying the order and shooting the baby, putting him out of his misery - as horrific as that would be.

because it isn't about the baby for him - it is about HIS comfort. he's comfortable with ethnic cleansing, he's comfortable with terrorizing a woman who has just given birth and her family, it is not at all about shame or horror or a tiny spot of decency in him. he's just not comfortable with having to step on a baby and kill him.

he is more comfortable with letting that baby starve out of sight than he is taking direct action against him.

this is the liberal zionist or frankly the liberal colonizer even beyond zionism - because it's all connected. as long as they do not have to be the ones to crush the infant to death under their boot, as long as they can shield their eyes from the brutality of their country, they'll take that option.

I think about israelis living so close to the gaza strip, living in relative security and having food and shelter and yes bomb shelters because THEY are citizens of a settler colonial state and people who are being colonized are going to resist the violence of occupation.

I think about how generally they are so removed and detached from the brutality of what israel does to palestinians, and how after oct 7th, many people who considered themselves liberal zionists went completely apeshit racist and genocidal, and this is according to actual peace activists in israel, actual anti-zionists in israel, actual leftists in israel. the ones who have refused to cover their eyes to the realities of the occupation and the genocide.

you see it on social media - people who consider themselves non-zionists or liberal zionists have been laughing at hateful genocidal zionist memes, and centering their own pain, and it reminds me of how liberals in the united states will do ANYTHING not to witness the horrors of us imperialism when it threatens their comfort.

this is not unique to zionists, this is a symptom of settler colonialism. I do believe that sometimes liberals can do better than that, but they often end up useless as allies to resistance, actual resistance, when it fucking matters the most.

so many liberal americans will continue to watch their favorite racist shows or buy disposable vapes or support joe biden, and they'll make all kinds of excuses about why they have to but the truth is this: they value their comfort more than they care about genocide.

I mean frankly even I do to some extent. I pay my taxes. I'm not gonna go to prison on tax evasion because I want to make a point about genocide. I wish I had the courage of my convictions to that level but I don't. I know that I would never go serve in the military even if it was conscription, I'd go to jail for that but that's never been a real concern for me here.

meanwhile, there are people who do not have the comfort to lose. in the film, farha does not have the privilege to choose comfort. she can close her eyes, she can look away, but she hears the baby cry and cry and cry until the baby passes away. she has no choice.

in choosing his own comfort, the soldier unknowingly condemns a child to witness trauma he can choose to ignore. now farha, a 14 year old girl, has to live with not being able to free herself from her sanctuary/prison to save the baby.

a 14 year old girl injures herself to save a baby, but a grown man covers a baby's face and lets it starve so he can live with himself. he still murdered that baby, but he'll tell himself that he didn't.

people often say they know what they'd have done if they'd lived during the holocaust or other atrocities. but honestly these same people don't do shit now. they cover their eyes.

if you're going to accept the deaths of innocent people, at least say that your comfort, your security, matters more to you than their lives.

because it clearly does.

anyway go watch farha on netflix.

#farha 2021 #farha #palestinian film #palestinian cinema #free palestine #child death tw #child murder tw #settler colonialism #anti-zionism #racism #genocide #liberalism :(#thing is we all start somewhere #i was a liberal - you can grow too #but you have to acknowledge reality

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news4dzhozhar · 29 days

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rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world · 1 year

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“What we are doing here will not restore the past.”

“Entire nations are built on fairytales. Facts are too sterile for cohesive understanding. Soon, what we have achieved here will create a myth of its own.”

- In Vitro, 2019

#Palestinian film #Palestine #free palestine #Nakba #israeli occupation #sci fi #hiam abbass #Maisa abd elhadi #Israel #ethnic cleansing

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heavenlydark · 6 months

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Tale of the Three Jewels (1995) dir. Michel Khleifi

“Listen, can you hear the sharks, the whales and the ringing of the shellfish?”

#film #films #tale of the tree jewels #tale of the three jewels (1995)#palestine #palestinian film #free palestine

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fiercynn · 7 months

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queer short cuts week 31: free palestine

queer short cuts is a biweekly newsletter where i share queer & trans short film recommendations; each set of films is themed and comes out to no more than one hour cumulatively. content notes are included at the end of each post. you can also check out the full spreadsheet of films i've recommended.

this week, i am recommending short films created by or about queer palestinians. and i wish it were a given that i could write this week’s newsletter without first having to explain why it’s necessary to support palestinian liberation. but i’m seeing some of the worst misinformation and suppression of pro-palestinian speech, and the worst dehumanization of palestinian people, that i have seen in my entire life. if you feel unequivocal of your support for palestine, then you can skip down to the second section in the link where i talk about films, but if you are on the fence in any way, please do read the whole intro.

check out the film recs

and along with watching this week’s films, please do what you can to fight for palestinian freedom:

donate, if you have the means, to organizations working on the ground in occupied palestine, like baitulmaal, medical aid for palestine, palestine children’s relief fund, and doctors without borders

contact your local leaders to demand support for palestine – people in the u.s. can send emails and/or make calls to your legislators, and people in the u.s., u.k., and canada can use these templates created by palestinian organizers to write to politicians, universities, news outlets, businesses, and more

learn more about the fight for palestinian liberation through decolonize palestine, the palestine resource library, coverage at jadaliyya, and free e-books offered by haymarket books, and about jewish support for palestinians and opposition to zionism at jewish currents and jewish voices for peace

uplift palestinian voices and combat misinformation you’re seeing and hearing on social media or in your communities

#free palestine #queer short cuts #queer film #short film #palestinian film #id in alt text

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finch-kidarchives · 1 month

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They Do Not Exist (1974) is on the Internet Archive

#they do not exist #they do not exist (1974)#mustafa abu ali #1974 #palestine #film #documentary #short film #palestinian film #internet archive

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parm4carm · 6 months

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habibi rasak kharban (2011), dir. susan youssef

palestine film institute

#palestine film institute #palestine #free palestine #palestinian film #habibi 2011 #habibi rasak kharban #darling something's wrong with your head #film screencaps #i cried. so much

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speakingparts · 10 months

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OUROBOROS 2017, Basma Alsharif

#Basma Alsharif #cinema #movies #film #gaza #palestinian film #palestinian cinema #Ouroboros

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hassanatforusmk · 2 months

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Israeli soldiers with an american flag, promoting for a construction company in New Jersey

“Coming soon, The luxury neighborhood of Michael Mansions! luxury buildings on the seafront (formerly Gaza). Initiatives and construction M.K-N.J. BLUE CREEK CONSTRUCTION”

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divdevdump · 4 months

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@atlajala: found this gem tn: "Towards A Revolutionary Arab Cinema" from the early years of Cinéaste (Vol. 6, N0.2, 1974) an interview with Mustafa Abu Ali, Hassan Abu Ghanimeh, & other unnamed members of the newly formed/reformulated Palestinian Cinema Association, in Beirut, September '72

#palestine #palestinian history #palestinian culture #palestinian cinema association #palestinian film #palestinian cinema #interview #twitter

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news4dzhozhar · 29 days

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#farha #naila and the uprising #divine intervention #a world not ours #palestinian film #palestinian art #apartheid #save palestine #ethnic cleansing #israel is an apartheid state #seek truth #free palestine 🇵🇸#genocide #illegal occupation #israel is committing genocide #israeli war crimes

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