Falastin Film Festival: Time-Space - A Collection of Short Films
This is a collection of short films exploring themes and experiences of time and space. All films are subtitled in English.
About Falastin Film Festival: Time-Space - A Collection of Short Films
Silent Protest المظاهرة الصامتة (PG) by Mahasen Nasser-Eldin
On 26 October 1929, Palestinian women launched their women’s movement in Jerusalem. Approximately 300 women converged into the city from all over Palestine. They held a silent demonstration through a car convoy across the city in protest at the British High Commissioner’s bias against Arabs in the Buraq uprising. This is their story on that day.
Genre: Documentary, Historical, Archives | Year of Release: 2019 | Original Language: Arabic | Subtitles: English
Nation Estate (12A) by Larissa Sansour
In this sci-fi short, one colossal high-rise houses the entire Palestinian population – now finally living the high life. With a glossy mixture of computer-generated imagery, live actors and an arabesque electronic soundtrack, Nation Estate explores a vertical solution to Palestinian statehood where each city has its own floor and intercity trips previously marred by checkpoints are now made by elevator.
Genre: Short, Science-Fiction, Dystopian | Year of Release: 2013 | Original Languages: Arabic, English | Subtitles: English
Canada Park حديقة كندا (12A) by Razan AlSalah
I walk on snow to fall unto the desert. I find myself on unceded indigenous territory in so called Canada, an exile unable to return to Palestine. I trespass the colonial border as a digital spectre floating through Ayalon-Canada Park, transplanted over three Palestinian villages razed by the Israeli Occupation Forces in 1967. Canada Park is an experimental video poem exploring the politics of dis/appearance of Palestine as narrativized, mapped and imaged in Google Streetview and early 20th century colonial landscape photography of the ‘Holy Land’.
Genre: Short, Experimental, Poem | Year of Release: 2020 | Original Languages: Arabic, English | Subtitles: English
Falastin Film Festival (FFF) is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit collective of Palestinians and allies dedicated to bringing Palestinian art to Edinburgh and Highland audiences. Palestinians are often summed up as an ‘occupied people,’ and spoken for, though they have their own stories to tell. Using cinema as a tool of resistance the festival strives to decolonize the narrative and equip audiences with historical context. There is a desire to build community while celebrating Palestinian art and culture through cinema, music, cuisine, and other storytelling mediums. Scotland’s exposure to Palestinian society, art, culture, and humanity altogether remains rather limited. FFF hopes to fill this gap, using both classical and contemporary cinema primarily but not exclusively. They strive to highlight Palestinian steadfast resistance, cultural preservation, stories of love, and in the words of poet Rafeef Ziadah, teachings of life. In so doing, they offer a refreshing portrayal that encompasses the geographic, linguistic, and experiential diversity of the Palestinian people globally.
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