Provoked Narratives: Films about Palestine Tuesday 12 November, 3pm to 6pm, BLOC Cinema, Arts One
The Centre for Film and Ethics, the Global South Cinémathèque, and the Palestine Film Institute present ‘Provoked Narratives’, a set of films made between 1967 and 1984 on the Palestinian people’s struggle for their homeland. The four films that will be screened, made by different filmmakers across geographies and time, create an archive of belonging of a people without ‘home’. The films in the programme reflect varying cinematic forms that the filmmakers have used to further Palestinian resistance. They present an unflinching look at the continued struggle for a Palestinian homeland, the brutality of the Israeli regime and what it leaves in its wake in the everyday lives of people, especially children. And yet, the films also evoke a sense of beauty and tenderness that is enmeshed in the everyday lives of people, non-heroic small acts that bind people to each other. It is in this paying careful and deep attention to the everyday practices in people’s lives, that the filmmakers provide a lodestar that paves the way for all of us to think, watch, write about Palestine, along with the documentary form and its affective encounters.
The event is free to attend and aims to raise funds for the Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund: https://gascf.org/. For further details and to register: https://tinyurl.com/5yub2twk.
Francesca Albanese, ‘Genocide in Gaza: The Tomb of International Law?’
QM event co-sponsored by Centre for Film and Ethics
12 November, 12-2pm, Skeel Lecture Theatre
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, will speak at QM on 12 November at noon on ‘Genocide in Gaza: The Tomb of International Law?’. The event will be moderated by Prof. Neve Gordon and followed by a Q&A from the audience. Further details, including how to book a free place, are here.