Reel Palestine / 2nd Edition / 2016
The 2nd installment of Reel Palestine ran from January 22nd - 30th, 2016 and presented stories that sometimes slip under the radar: stories of skateboarders, cows, women driving race cars and nostalgia for a better time. Reel Palestine film festival attempts to tear down the wall (literally) and allow viewers to cinematically travel to Palestine through the power of storytelling. Screenings and events were held across Dubai and Sharjah. |
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2016 Festival Films
Speed SistersDirected by Amber Fares
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On The Bride's SideDirected by Gabriele Del Grande, Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry & Antonio Augugliaro
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Villa ToumaDirected by Suha Arraf
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Love, Theft and Other EntanglementsDirected by Muayad Alayan
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InfiltratorsDirected by Khaled Jarrar
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The Wanted 18Directed by Amer Shomali & Paul Cowan
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RoshmiaDirected by Salim Abu Jabal
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When I Saw You
Directed by Annemarie Jacir
Drama | 2012 | 98 min 1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, 11, and his mother Ghaydaa, are amongst this latest wave of refugees. Placed in "temporary" refugee camps made up of tents and prefab houses until they would be able to return, They wait, like the generation before them who arrived in 1948. With difficulties adjusting to life in Harir camp and a longing to be reunited with his father, Tarek searches a way out, and discovers a new hope emerging with the times.
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Epicly Palestine'dDirected by Phil & Theo
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The WarrenDirected by James Adolphus
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Though I Know The River Is DryDirected by Omar Robert Hamilton
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Ave Maria
Directed by Basil Khalil
Short | Comedy | 2014 | 15 min The nuns of the "Sisters of Mercy" Convent, in the middle of the West Bank wilderness, have their daily routine of silence and prayer disrupted when a family of Jewish settlers come knocking at their door for help after crashing into the convent’s wall.
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Revisit some memories from Reel Palestine 2016
2016 Festival Pop-ups
Open BethlehemSaturday 7th May 19:00 at A4 Space, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai
Directed by Leila Sansour Documentary | 2014 | 90 min Presented in partnership with Cinema Akil The screening was followed a Q&A session with the Director, Leila Sansour Leila takes us on a tour of her hometown, Bethlehem, and through her film, focuses our attention on a human rights issue that, without sounding dramatic, is a cause for us all, irrespective of religion and nationality. For some, the political situation in Palestine seems either intractably complicated or hopeless, however Leila’s way of telling Bethlehem’s story, makes the story of Palestine legible and deeply personal and the determination and courage it has taken for her to tell it, is an inspiration for us all.
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Trip Along ExodusSaturday May 21 at A4 Space, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai
Directed by Hind Shoufani Documentary | 2014 | 120 min Presented in partnership with Cinema Akil Trip Along Exodus is a feature-length documentary exploring the last 70 years of Palestinian politics seen through the prism of the life of Dr Elias Shoufani, a leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, an academic writer and leftist intellectual who worked with Fateh (but was one of the leaders of the opposition to Arafat) for 20 years. He is also the father of the filmmaker and writer, Hind. The film recreates Palestinian history using archive, family photos/8mm films, macro footage, glitter, interviews and multi media formats in a video-art style documentary, which serves overall as visual poems in a book.
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La Terre Parle Arabe
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