From and Of Struggles, films from Rojava and Palestine
- ONDERTITELING EN
- Prijzen 9.50 €, 7.50 €, 6.50 €, 6.00 €
- Moderatorkaartje Article 27, Arsène 50
- Abonnement Carte 5 places Cinema Galeries, UGC Unlimited, Cineville Pass
Inleiding
This programme hosts films that come out of ongoing liberation struggles. It brings into conversation cinema that is produced from and about the immediate present of Rojava and Palestine. The films in the programme were all produced as part of collectives that have been formed within the scope of revolutionary movements.
Synopsis
The screening will be followed by a conversation between the director Sevinaz Evdike and Reem Shilleh, about the experiences of making and circulating films collectively as part of revolutionary and liberatory work.
Inleiding
This programme hosts films that come out of ongoing liberation struggles. It brings into conversation cinema that is produced from and about the immediate present of Rojava and Palestine. The films in the programme were all produced as part of collectives that have been formed within the scope of revolutionary movements.
Synopsis
The screening will be followed by a conversation between the director Sevinaz Evdike and Reem Shilleh, about the experiences of making and circulating films collectively as part of revolutionary and liberatory work.
Palestine in the Eye
Mustafa Abu Ali – Lebanon/Palestine, 1977, 27′ – VO st EN
Palestine in the Eye was made as a eulogy to Hani Joharieh, a Palestinian cinematographer shot and killed while filming during a gun battle in the snowy hills of Ein Toura (Lebanon) in 1976. A co-founder of the Palestine Film Unit (PFU), he was immortalized as a martyr of Palestinian militant cinema. Made by his close friend and comrade, Mustafa Abu Ali, the film shows family, friends, and comrades recounting the filmmaker’s contributions to the revolution and its cinema thus paying tribute to the fellow filmmaker’s craft, and yet in many ways it operates as a self-portrait of the PFU, its ethos and cadre.
Berbû (The Wedding Parade)
Sevinaz Evdike – Syria, 2022, 70’′ – VO st EN
Gule is preparing a long-way dream wedding day in Serekaniye, a city in Syrian Kurdistan. But the city is bombed by the Turkish army, and the invasion starts. She has to flee from the city. On the way, she meets Barin, who could not finish her wedding that day, and Naze, with whom she ends up sharing life and broken dreams in the school conditioned as a shelter for refugees.
Sevinaz Evdike was born in Serekaniye/Rojava in 1992. She studied elementary education in Deir-A-Zor and film directing at the Cigerxwin Academy in Diyarbakir/Turkey. She was the co-director of Komina Film a Rojava/ Rojava Film commune, an organization which functions as a film academy, production and distribution house in Northern Syria. Sevinaz lectures on
filmmaking, screenwriting and production and organizes screenings for Kurdish cinema in Syria and the rest of the world. She co-founded the Rojava Film Festival.
Kezî is a collective of women filmmakers from both Kurdish and international backgrounds, based in Rojava, in northeastern Syria. Over the years, their work has encompassed film production, movie screenings, and the training of women interested in cinema in Rojava.
Gule Welat is a Kurdish musician and filmmaker from Rojava. She worked as a Director Assistant in many productions of Rojava Film Commune like The End will Be Spectacular, Kobane and The Lonely Trees. Now she is a member of Kezî Women Film Collective.
Zilan Hemo is a young writer and director from Kobanê. She studied filmmaking at the Academy of Arts Martyr Yekta Herekol. After graduated she was one of the first members of the Rojava Film Commune in Kobane where she directed many short films and worked in all the production of the Commune since 2018.
