London Palestine Film Festival - 2007





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Palestine Film Festival 2007



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	The 2007 London Palestine Film Festival runs from Friday April 27th to Thursday May 10th at the Barbican Cinema and SOAS (University of London). The Festival aims to showcase the finest in films on the subject of Palestine, with a particular focus on new films made by Palestinian writers and directors. Incorporating documentary, experimental, and fiction work, the festival provides a unique forum for the exhibition of a broad range of work by both new and established directors, writers and producers. In addition to screening over 40 rare, new, and archival films, this year, the Festival is delighted to host some 18 participating artists, activists, scholars, and curators for a unique series of key panel discussions, book launches, and Q & A sessions alongside the screenings. All profits from the Festival are donated to selected benevolent Palestinian educational and cultural projects. Updated information concerning the 2007 festival program will be maintained on this website. All ticket sales information and bookings can be made through the Barbican Cinema's Website and via this site. About PFF

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Venue | Barbican, Cinema 1:

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The 2007 Festival will be opened by Festival patron, the acclaimed Egyptian novelist, Ahdaf Soueif. Following the screenings, Ahdaf Soueif will chair a panel discussion with emerging Palestinian filmmakers Najwa Najjar and Sameh Zoabi.

Special Opening Session on Emerging Palestinian Fiction Directors:

		Title \| West.. East Director \| Rina Khoury /2006 Running Time \| 8 minutes

		Title \| Make a Wish Director \| Cherien Dabis /2006 Running Time \| 12 minutes

		Title \| Be Quiet Director \| Sameh Zoabi /2005 Running Time \| 19 minutes

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Title | Yasmine Tughani (Yasmine�s Song)
Director | Najwa Najjar /2006
Running Time | 21 minutes

NB: As only limited tickets are available for this opening session, it will be repeated on Saturday 28th at 17:15 in Barbican Cinema 3.

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Venue | Barbican, Cinema 3:

15:00

		Title \| The Seventh Dog Director \| Zeina Durra /2005 Running Time \| 20 minutes

		Title \| Paradise Now Director \| Hany Abu-Assad /2005 Running Time \| 90 minutes

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Venue | Barbican, Cinema 3:

17:15

Special Session on Emerging Palestinian Fiction Directors:

		Title \| West.. East Director \| Rina Khoury /2006 Running Time \| 8 minutes

		Title \| Make a Wish Director \| Cherien Dabis /2006 Running Time \| 12 minutes

		Title \| Be Quiet Director \| Sameh Zoabi /2005 Running Time \| 19 minutes

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Title | Yasmine Tughani (Yasmine�s Song)
Director | Najwa Najjar /2006
Running Time | 21 minutes

Followed by Panel Discussion on Emerging Palestinian Fiction Cinema, chaired by Mike Dibb and with the participation of directors Najwa Najjar and Sameh Zoabi.

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Venue | Barbican, Cinema 3:

19:30

Special Session: Two Generations of Palestinian Political Filmmaking:

		Title \| Palestine, Summer 2006 Director \| The Palestinian Filmmakers' Collective /2006 Running Time \| 40 minutes (13 x 3min shorts)

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Title | They Do Not Exist
Director | Mustafa Abu Ali /1974
Running Time | 24 minutes

Followed by Panel Discussion on Current and Past Concerns of Palestinian Political Fimmaking, chaired by Sheila Whitaker and with the participation of directors Mustafa Abu Ali and Palestinian Filmmakers' Collective co-founder Ismail Habbash.

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Venue | Barbican, Cinema 3:

18:15

Special Session: Socialist Anti-Zionism: Now and Then:

		Title \| Our Kuffiyyah in London Director \| Dalia al-Kury /2007 Running Time \| 5 minutes

		Title \| Matzpen - Anti-Zionist Israelis Director \| Eran Torbiner /2003 Running Time \| 54 minutes

Followed by Panel Discussion on the issues raised by the documentary chaired by Nira Yuval-Davis and with the participation of Director Eran Torbiner, Matzpen-founder Moshe Machover, and Palestinian socialist activist Adel Samara.

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Venue | Barbican, Cinema 3:

20:30

		Title \| Ligne Verte Director \| Laurent Mareschal /2005 Running Time \| 3 minutes

		Title \| The Last Supper - Abu Dis Director \| Issa Freij /2005 Running Time \| 26 minutes

		Title \| Palestine Blues Director \| Nida Sinnokrot /2006 Running Time \| 72 minutes

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Venue | Barbican, Cinema 3:

18:00

Special Double-Bill: Classic Syrian Documentaries

		Title \| The Dream Director \| Mohammad Malas /1982 Running Time \| 47 minutes

		Title \| A Plate of Sardines - Or the First Time I Heard of Israel Director \| Omar Amiralay /1997 Running Time \| 17 minutes

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Venue | Barbican, Cinema 3:

19:30

		Title \| The Specialist Director \| Eyal Sivan /1999 Running Time \| 128 minutes

Followed by Q & A session with director Eyal Sivan, chaired by Dr Eyal Weizman.

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Venue | Barbican, Cinema 3:

18:00

		Title \| Leila Khaled - Hijacker Director \| Lina Makboul /2007 Running Time \| 58 minutes

		Title \| 'Arus el-Jaleel Director \| Basel Tannous /2006 Running Time \| 50 minutes

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Venue | Barbican, Cinema 3:

20:00

Special Session: Video Art and Palestine

		Title \| Happy Days Director \| Larissa Sansour /2006 Running Time \| 3 minutes

		Title \| Chic Point - Fashion For Israeli Checkpoints Director \| Sharif Waked /2003 Running Time \| 7 minutes

		Title \| Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y Director \| Johan Grimonprez /1997 Running Time \| 68 minutes

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Venue | Barbican, Cinema 3:

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Special Session: Oral History - The Nakba and Beyond

		Title \| Impermanent Director \| Mario Rizzi /2006 Running Time \| 15 minutes

		Title \| The Fourth Room Director \| Nahed Awwad /2005 Running Time \| 25 minutes

		Title \| A Journey Director \| Lamia Joreige /2006 Running Time \| 41 minutes

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Venue | Barbican, Cinema 3:

20:00

Special Session: Exile and Return

		Title \| Galoot Director \| Asher de Bentolila Tlalim /2003 Running Time \| 97 minutes

Followed by Panel Discussion on issues raised by the film chaired by Karma Nabulsi and with the participation of Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin and Director Asher de Bentolila Tlalim.

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Venue | Barbican, Cinema 3:

18:15

		Title \| Save and Burn Director \| Julian Samuel /2004 Running Time \| 80 minutes

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Venue | Barbican, Cinema 3:

20:00

Special Session: Media, Cultures, and Representation

		Title \| Reel Bad Arabs � How Hollywood Vilifies a People Director \| The Media Education Foundation /2006 Running Time \| 55 minutes

Followed by Book Launch and Talk with Prof. Ella Shohat: Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices (2006: Duke University Press)


		Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices brings together for the first time a selection of Ella Shohat's trailblazing essays. Written over the past two decades, these twelve essays-some classic, some less known, some new-trace a powerful intellectual trajectory as Shohat rigorously teases out the consequences of a deep critique of Eurocentric epistemology. Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices not only illuminates many of the concerns that have animated the study of cultural politics over the past two decades, it also points toward new scholarly possibilities click here for more information

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Venue | SOAS SOAS Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT):

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Special Session: Book Launch with Ella Shohat: Flagging Patriotism

Book talk and signing with Festival guest, Prof. Ella Shohat (NYU). Flagging Patriotism (2006: Routledge, co-authored with Robert Stam).


		While many books focus on Anti-Americanism, and many on patriotism, Flagging Patriotism audaciously links the two issues� The authors reframe the usual "why do they hate-us" question, asking how do other nations love themselves, and how is that self-love linked to their views of the US? Is love of country "monogamous," or can one love many countries? In the age of imperial democracy, how can Americans learn from international critics, but also point out that anti-Americans "get it wrong?"�The book scores both the anti-French hysteria of the right and the submerged narcissism of some French Anti-Americanism. The boisterous superpatriots, meanwhile, are exposed as not being patriots at all. click here for more information

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Venue | SOAS KLT:

14:00

		Title \| Out of Place � Memories of Edward Said Director \| Sato Makoto /2005 Running Time \| 137 minutes

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Venue | SOAS KLT:

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		Title \| Still Life Director \| Diana Allan /2005 Running Time \| 23 minutes

		Title \| Gaza � Another Kind of Tears Director \| Abed el Salam Shehada /2006 Running Time \| 50 minutes

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Venue | SOAS KLT:

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		Title \| A Palestinian Woman Director \| Andrew Courtney & Emily Perry /2006 Running Time \| 24 minutes

		Title \| Bil�in Habibti Director \| Shai Carmeli-Pollak /2006 Running Time \| 85 minutes

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Venue | SOAS KLT:

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		Title \| The Colour of Olives Director \| Carolina Rivas /2006 Running Time \| 97 minutes

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		Title \| Offside Director \| Daniel Sivan & Dorit Tadir /2006 Running Time \| 12 minutes

		Title \| The Iron Wall Director \| Mohammad Alatar /2006 Running Time \| 52 minutes

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	For all information relating to the Palestine Film Foundation, and the London Palestine Film Festival please email: [email protected] For information relating to the Palestine Society at SOAS, please email: [email protected] To book tickets online, please follow the links to secure online purchase pages next to each film listed in the schedule. Alternatively, to book by telephone, please contact the Barbican Box Office: Barbican box office number: 020 7638 8891



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