SOME STRINGS: found image & sound, 1901–2024 "the cinema of solidarity"
Sarah Wood, VB/Francija, 2024, 5’
How to think of cinema when the physical spaces of cinemas are being used as bomb shelters.
Ma'loul Celebrates its Destruction
Michel Khleifi, Palestina/Belgija, 1985, 32’
Like countless Palestinian villages since 1948, Ma’loul has been erased from the map. Every year on Israel's ‘independence day’ (the only day that no permits are needed to move around that area freely), Ma'loul's expelled indigenous Palestinian inhabitants go back to their village to show their children where they are from and to re-conjure the houses, the school, and the bakery.
Your Father Was Born 100 Years Old, and So Was the Nakba / Abuki khuli'a 'umruhu 100 sana, zay al-Nakba
Razan Al Salah, ZDA/Libanon/Palestina, 2017, 7’
Attempt to "Return" through Google Street View—the director puts herself in the place of her grandmother, searching in vain for traces of her past on the map.
Ours Is a Country of Words
Mathijs Poppe, Belgija, 2017, 42’
Filmed in Shatila Refugee Camp in Lebanon, the story begins at an undetermined moment in the future, when the dream of the Palestinian refugees to go back to Palestine becomes reality.