PALESTINIAN FILM SERIES
DOCUMENTA MADRID
Date
10
14 May 2011
Venue
Matadero Madrid
Location
El Taller.
Institution
Matadero Madrid
The Madrid Palestinian Film Show is on for the second time from 25 November to 4 December 2011. The festival is dedicated exclusively to Palestinian film and is organised by the Handala Association. It aims to inform about Palestinian history, culture and art to Spanish-speaking audiences, as well as to present different viewpoints to show how rich this culture is and to create its own vision of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
From this perspective, the show primarily promotes Palestinian self-representation, from conceptual and experimental approaches to artistic innovation and activist filmmaking.
This second show features 38 films, divided into two sections: Palestinian films, with 27 entries (5 fictional and 22 documentaries); and films about Palestine, with 11 documentary films.
> Saturday 26 / Cineteca
6.30pm. This Is My Picture When I Was Dead (Mahmoud Al Massad / 83’ / 2010 / Netherlands-Jordan). Arabic O.V. with subtitles in Spanish.
Athens, 1983. The international press reports the death of Bashir, a four-year-old Palestinian child killed when his father Mamoun Meraish, a senior PLO official, is assassinated. But what if death is not the end of the journey? Examining what his life would have been like takes us back to what his father was. Like his father, he would be a politician. And yet, while still expressing himself with weapons, he would use what he loved doing as a child: he would draw. This boy would have become the best political draughtsman in Jordan.
8.30pm. Masterclass by Mahmoud Al Massad
9.45pm. My Name Is Ahlam (Rima Essa / 80’ / 2010 / Palestine). Arabic O.V. with subtitles in Spanish.
The incredible story of a Palestinian woman who fights the leukaemia of her 5-year-old daughter Ahlam against her husband, the occupiers and anyone else who stands in the way of a cure for her daughter.
> Sunday 27 / Cineteca
6.30pm. The Catastrophe, Part I (Rawan El Damen / 100’ / 2008 / Qatar). Arabic, Hebrew and English O.V. with subtitles in Spanish.
With unique archive material and testimony from Israeli, Palestinian and British historians, this film tells an extraordinary tale: that of the Palestinian catastrophe (Al Nakba) that still shapes issues in the Middle East today. The first part covers the period from 1799 to 1947. The second part examines what happened in 1948, with the ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians who became refugees and recently reached 5 million worldwide.
8.30pm. Masterclass by Rawan el Damen
9.45pm. The Catastrophe, Part II (Rawan El Damen / 100’ / 2008 / Qatar). Arabic, Hebrew and English O.V. with subtitles in Spanish.
> Tuesday 29 / Intermediae
5.30pm. Bilin, My Love (Shai Carmeli Pollack / 2006 / Israel / 84’). Arabic, Hebrew and English O.V. with subtitles in Spanish.
Under the pretext of security, Israel confiscates the lands of a Palestinian town, Bilin, to build the Wall, but the community puts up daily resistance. This is the story of a town that doesn’t want to lose its lands and confronts the Israeli Army non-violently.
Colloquium on non-violent resistance movements
7.30pm. Budrus (Julia Bacha / 2009 / 70’ / Israel). Arabic, Hebrew and English O.V. with subtitles in Spanish.
This film follows a Palestinian leader who tries to unite Fatah, Hamas and the Israelis in a non-violent movement to successfully save his people from ruin. And he won’t achieve it until his 15-year-old daughter joins in the fight.
> Wednesday 30 / Cineteca
6.30pm. Blanche’s Homeland (Maryse Gargour / 28’ / 2002 / France-Palestine). Arabic, French and English O.V. with subtitles in Spanish..
This intimate, evocative and poetic film follows the life of an old woman between 1988 and 2001. Blanche was born in Jaffa, where her parents were landowners, but she is exiled during the war of 1948. Her life then becomes a series of exiles, from Jaffa to Beirut, Europe and the United States. Looking back on the life she has lived, Blanche rebels against the world’s amnesia with respect to the fate of the Palestinian people, and through dialogues between her and the new generations of exiled Palestinians she testifies to the tenacity and endurance of their identity.
The Land Speaks Arabic (Maryse Gargour / 61’ / 2002 / Palestine-Greece). Arabic, French and English O.V. with subtitles in Spanish.
This documentary explores the birth of Zionism at the end of the 19th century and its implications for the Palestinian population, enriched with original documents, meetings with Zionist leaders, unique archive film footage, testimonies by eyewitnesses and interviews with historians. This information helps to illustrate the fact that the expulsion of the indigenous Arab population of Palestine was hardly an accidental result of the war of 1948.
8.30pm. Masterclass by Maryse Gargour
9.45pm. Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (Mai Masri / 56’ / 2001 / Palestine-USA). Arabic O.V. with subtitles in Spanish..
From the Shatila camp in Lebanon to the Dheisha camp in the West Bank, friendship blooms between two refugee girls. This is their story of exile, forced to lead lives separate from each other and shut out of their homeland.
> Thursday 1 December
5.30pm. Palestine (Off the Record), Andrés Domínguez, 2010, 60 min. Talk on Palestine and civil society with Hanady Muhiar Muñumer and Andrés Domínguez.
[Matadero-Sala Terrario]
6.30pm. The Shadow of Absence, Nasri Hajjaj, 2007, 84 min.
Meeting with the director and masterclass (8.30pm).
[Cineteca-Matadero]
7.15pm. Short documentaries (60 min): short films by young artists Heb2, various authors, 2010, 5 min; The Palestinian Window, Eran Torbiner, 2010, 31 min; In the Shadow of King David, Natasha Dudinski, 2008, 24 min.
[Matadero-Sala Terrario]
8.30pm. Masterclass by Nasri Hajjaj
[Cineteca-Matadero]
8.30pm. (No) Laughing Matter, Vanessa Rousselot, 2010, 54 min. Meeting with the director, talk on Palestinian culture and humour (9.30pm).
[Matadero-Sala Terrario]
9.45pm. 5 Minutes from Home, Nahed Awwad, 2008, 52 min.
[Cineteca-Matadero]
> Friday 2
5.30pm. Canticle of the Stones, Michel Khleifi, 1990, 100 min.
[Cine Doré]
5.30pm. Jaffa, the Orange’s Clockwork, Eyal Sivan, 2010, 88 min.
[Matadero-Sala Terrario]
6pm. Hard Ball, Suha Arraf, 2007, 52 min; As the Poet Said, Nasry Hajjaj, 2009, 58 min.
[Cineteca-Matadero]
7.15pm. 9-Star Hotel, Ido Haar, 2007, 78 min. Talk on the occupied territories, refugees and displaced populations with Isaías Barreñada (8.40pm).
[Matadero-Sala Terrario]
8pm. Last Spring. Abu Dis, Issa Freij, 2005, 26 min; Jerusalem... The East Side Story, Mohammed Alatar, 2008, 56 min.
[Cineteca-Matadero]
9.45pm. The Colour of Olives, Carolina Rivas, 2006, 97 min.
[Cineteca-Matadero]
> Saturday 3
5.30pm. Gueto 2009, Diego Gebelin and Carlos Pla, 2009, 56 min. Meeting with the directors, talk on fragmentation and ghettos in Palestine (6.30pm).
[Matadero-Sala Terrario]
6.30pm. Siege: A Writer’s Diary, Liana Badr, 2002, 33 min; The Gates Are Open Sometimes, Liana Badr, 2006, 42 min.
[Cineteca-Matadero]
7.15pm. The Colour of Olives, Carolina Rivas, 2006, 97 min. Talk on the Wall and the settlements with Teresa Aranguren (9pm).
[Matadero-Sala Terrario]
8pm. 9-Star Hotel, Ido Haar, 2007, 78 min.
[Cineteca-Matadero]
9.45pm. Jaffa, the Orange’s Clockwork, Eyal Sivan, 2010, 88 min.
[Cineteca-Matadero]
From this perspective, the show primarily promotes Palestinian self-representation, from conceptual and experimental approaches to artistic innovation and activist filmmaking.
This second show features 38 films, divided into two sections: Palestinian films, with 27 entries (5 fictional and 22 documentaries); and films about Palestine, with 11 documentary films.
> Saturday 26 / Cineteca
6.30pm. This Is My Picture When I Was Dead (Mahmoud Al Massad / 83’ / 2010 / Netherlands-Jordan). Arabic O.V. with subtitles in Spanish.
Athens, 1983. The international press reports the death of Bashir, a four-year-old Palestinian child killed when his father Mamoun Meraish, a senior PLO official, is assassinated. But what if death is not the end of the journey? Examining what his life would have been like takes us back to what his father was. Like his father, he would be a politician. And yet, while still expressing himself with weapons, he would use what he loved doing as a child: he would draw. This boy would have become the best political draughtsman in Jordan.
8.30pm. Masterclass by Mahmoud Al Massad
9.45pm. My Name Is Ahlam (Rima Essa / 80’ / 2010 / Palestine). Arabic O.V. with subtitles in Spanish.
The incredible story of a Palestinian woman who fights the leukaemia of her 5-year-old daughter Ahlam against her husband, the occupiers and anyone else who stands in the way of a cure for her daughter.
> Sunday 27 / Cineteca
6.30pm. The Catastrophe, Part I (Rawan El Damen / 100’ / 2008 / Qatar). Arabic, Hebrew and English O.V. with subtitles in Spanish.
With unique archive material and testimony from Israeli, Palestinian and British historians, this film tells an extraordinary tale: that of the Palestinian catastrophe (Al Nakba) that still shapes issues in the Middle East today. The first part covers the period from 1799 to 1947. The second part examines what happened in 1948, with the ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians who became refugees and recently reached 5 million worldwide.
8.30pm. Masterclass by Rawan el Damen
9.45pm. The Catastrophe, Part II (Rawan El Damen / 100’ / 2008 / Qatar). Arabic, Hebrew and English O.V. with subtitles in Spanish.
> Tuesday 29 / Intermediae
5.30pm. Bilin, My Love (Shai Carmeli Pollack / 2006 / Israel / 84’). Arabic, Hebrew and English O.V. with subtitles in Spanish.
Under the pretext of security, Israel confiscates the lands of a Palestinian town, Bilin, to build the Wall, but the community puts up daily resistance. This is the story of a town that doesn’t want to lose its lands and confronts the Israeli Army non-violently.
Colloquium on non-violent resistance movements
7.30pm. Budrus (Julia Bacha / 2009 / 70’ / Israel). Arabic, Hebrew and English O.V. with subtitles in Spanish.
This film follows a Palestinian leader who tries to unite Fatah, Hamas and the Israelis in a non-violent movement to successfully save his people from ruin. And he won’t achieve it until his 15-year-old daughter joins in the fight.
> Wednesday 30 / Cineteca
6.30pm. Blanche’s Homeland (Maryse Gargour / 28’ / 2002 / France-Palestine). Arabic, French and English O.V. with subtitles in Spanish..
This intimate, evocative and poetic film follows the life of an old woman between 1988 and 2001. Blanche was born in Jaffa, where her parents were landowners, but she is exiled during the war of 1948. Her life then becomes a series of exiles, from Jaffa to Beirut, Europe and the United States. Looking back on the life she has lived, Blanche rebels against the world’s amnesia with respect to the fate of the Palestinian people, and through dialogues between her and the new generations of exiled Palestinians she testifies to the tenacity and endurance of their identity.
The Land Speaks Arabic (Maryse Gargour / 61’ / 2002 / Palestine-Greece). Arabic, French and English O.V. with subtitles in Spanish.
This documentary explores the birth of Zionism at the end of the 19th century and its implications for the Palestinian population, enriched with original documents, meetings with Zionist leaders, unique archive film footage, testimonies by eyewitnesses and interviews with historians. This information helps to illustrate the fact that the expulsion of the indigenous Arab population of Palestine was hardly an accidental result of the war of 1948.
8.30pm. Masterclass by Maryse Gargour
9.45pm. Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (Mai Masri / 56’ / 2001 / Palestine-USA). Arabic O.V. with subtitles in Spanish..
From the Shatila camp in Lebanon to the Dheisha camp in the West Bank, friendship blooms between two refugee girls. This is their story of exile, forced to lead lives separate from each other and shut out of their homeland.
> Thursday 1 December
5.30pm. Palestine (Off the Record), Andrés Domínguez, 2010, 60 min. Talk on Palestine and civil society with Hanady Muhiar Muñumer and Andrés Domínguez.
[Matadero-Sala Terrario]
6.30pm. The Shadow of Absence, Nasri Hajjaj, 2007, 84 min.
Meeting with the director and masterclass (8.30pm).
[Cineteca-Matadero]
7.15pm. Short documentaries (60 min): short films by young artists Heb2, various authors, 2010, 5 min; The Palestinian Window, Eran Torbiner, 2010, 31 min; In the Shadow of King David, Natasha Dudinski, 2008, 24 min.
[Matadero-Sala Terrario]
8.30pm. Masterclass by Nasri Hajjaj
[Cineteca-Matadero]
8.30pm. (No) Laughing Matter, Vanessa Rousselot, 2010, 54 min. Meeting with the director, talk on Palestinian culture and humour (9.30pm).
[Matadero-Sala Terrario]
9.45pm. 5 Minutes from Home, Nahed Awwad, 2008, 52 min.
[Cineteca-Matadero]
> Friday 2
5.30pm. Canticle of the Stones, Michel Khleifi, 1990, 100 min.
[Cine Doré]
5.30pm. Jaffa, the Orange’s Clockwork, Eyal Sivan, 2010, 88 min.
[Matadero-Sala Terrario]
6pm. Hard Ball, Suha Arraf, 2007, 52 min; As the Poet Said, Nasry Hajjaj, 2009, 58 min.
[Cineteca-Matadero]
7.15pm. 9-Star Hotel, Ido Haar, 2007, 78 min. Talk on the occupied territories, refugees and displaced populations with Isaías Barreñada (8.40pm).
[Matadero-Sala Terrario]
8pm. Last Spring. Abu Dis, Issa Freij, 2005, 26 min; Jerusalem... The East Side Story, Mohammed Alatar, 2008, 56 min.
[Cineteca-Matadero]
9.45pm. The Colour of Olives, Carolina Rivas, 2006, 97 min.
[Cineteca-Matadero]
> Saturday 3
5.30pm. Gueto 2009, Diego Gebelin and Carlos Pla, 2009, 56 min. Meeting with the directors, talk on fragmentation and ghettos in Palestine (6.30pm).
[Matadero-Sala Terrario]
6.30pm. Siege: A Writer’s Diary, Liana Badr, 2002, 33 min; The Gates Are Open Sometimes, Liana Badr, 2006, 42 min.
[Cineteca-Matadero]
7.15pm. The Colour of Olives, Carolina Rivas, 2006, 97 min. Talk on the Wall and the settlements with Teresa Aranguren (9pm).
[Matadero-Sala Terrario]
8pm. 9-Star Hotel, Ido Haar, 2007, 78 min.
[Cineteca-Matadero]
9.45pm. Jaffa, the Orange’s Clockwork, Eyal Sivan, 2010, 88 min.
[Cineteca-Matadero]