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2019 Summer Film Series: “The Apollo of Gaza” by Nicolas Wadimoff

August 9, 2021May 2, 2019 by Samirah Alkassim

In 2013, a 2,000-year-old statue of Apollo was found near Gaza, only to disappear all of a sudden. Apollo, god of art, beauty and divinations, incites all sorts of rumors, even the craziest ones. The Apollo of Gaza is at once an inquiry and a meditation on history, plunging us into the barely known reality of a territory that is still paying the price of wars and a merciless blockade, but where life also subsists, undefeated.

2019 Summer Film Series: “Personal Affairs” by Maha Haj

August 9, 2021May 2, 2019 by Samirah Alkassim

Maha Haj’s first feature film revolves around the dynamics characterizing a family from her hometown of Nazareth, where only the grumpy, middle-aged parents remain. One of their adult sons lives in Sweden, working as a photographer; their other son and daughter live in the West Bank in Ramallah, where the daughter’s mechanic husband is cast in a U.S. film after the director passes through his shop.

2019 Summer Film Series: Three Restored Films by the Palestine Film Unit (1969)

August 9, 2021May 2, 2019 by Samirah Alkassim

The following films were recently restored by researcher and filmmaker of the Palestine Film Unit, Khadijeh Habashneh Abu Ali, to honor the 50th anniversary of the founding of the PFU and the 10 year anniversary of the death of filmmaker and PFU founder, Mustafa Abu Ali: Scenes from Occupation in Gaza, by Mustafa Abu Ali (12 min.), They Do Not Exist, by Mustafa Abu Ali (23 min.), The Children of…., by Khadijeh Habashneh Abu Ali (22 min.)

2019 Summer Film Series: “Wajib” by Annemarie Jacir

August 9, 2021May 2, 2019 by Samirah Alkassim

A father and his estranged son must come together to hand deliver his daughter’s wedding invitations to each guest.

2019 Summer Film Series: “To My Father” by Abdel Salam Shehada

August 9, 2021May 2, 2019 by Samirah Alkassim

Set partly in a refugee camp in Rafah, Gaza, this film is a remarkable look back at fifty years of Palestinian and Arab history, through photographs, reportage and the voices of these photographers today.

2019 Summer Film Series: “Ambulance” by Mohamed Jabaly

August 9, 2021May 2, 2019 by Samirah Alkassim

Mohamed Jabaly spent the summer of 2014 working with an ambulance crew before and during “Operation Protective Edge”. While numerous articles and media stories are published on the recurring violence in Gaza, they are most often from a privileged outsider perspective. Jabaly’s film is unique in presenting events from a point of view that hails from the ground.

Why we protest

April 26, 2019 by JF Administrator

“More than 200 Palestinians have been killed since the launch of the Great March of Return along Gaza’s boundary with Israel on 30 March 2018.

Palestinians participating in the protest series are demanding their right to return to the lands on the other side of the boundary from which their families were expelled decades earlier.”

I co-founded the BDS movement. Why was I denied entry to the US?

April 26, 2019April 23, 2019 by JF Administrator

“Last Wednesday, as I was preparing to depart for the United States for a series of speaking engagements, I was abruptly stopped and prevented from boarding my flight at Ben Gurion airport. The US consulate informed the airline staff that US immigration has banned me from entering the country, despite having a valid visa, without providing a reason.”