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4 September 2019Film Screening: Eden 2014
Time and Location: at A.M. Qattan Foundation in Al-Tira, Ramallah, at 6:00 p.m.
131 mins. | 18+ | France | French with Arabic subtitles
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Set in 1990s France, a young literature student begins working as a disc jockey and bears witness to the rise of electronic dance music, and of course, the rave scene. With beautifully filmed party and club sequences filled with glowing splashes of colour, Eden dreamily traces the student’s musical journey over time. The music throughout almost becomes its own character, growing and changing as the story progresses.
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11 September 2019
Film Screening: Poisonous Roses 2018
Time and Location: at A.M. Qattan Foundation in Al-Tira, Ramallah, at 6:00 p.m.
70 mins. | 16+ | Egypt/France/Qatar/United Arab Emirates | Arabic with English subtitles
Director: A. Fawzi Saleh
Saqr is desperate to flee the Egyptian tanners’ district, but his sister, Taheya, wants to prevent this at all costs. She goes to extraordinary lengths to sabotage his romantic and professional aspirations, her actions resulting in a near mimicry of the claustrophobic alleyways she floats through on a daily basis, like a ghost—slowly closing in on her brother and his dreams of another life.
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14 September 2019
Lecture: The Tyranny of Choice - Renata Salecl
Time and Location: at A.M. Qattan Foundation in Al-Tira, Ramallah, at 11:00 a.m.
Today we are encouraged to view our lives as full of choice. Like products on a supermarket shelf, our identities seem to be there for the choosing. But paradoxically this freedom can create anxiety and feelings of guilt and inadequacy. In The Tyranny of Choice, acclaimed philosopher and sociologist Renata Salecl explores how late capitalism's shrill exhortations to 'be yourself' are leading to ever-greater disquiet—and how its insistence on choice being a purely individual matter can prevent social change.
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18 September 2019
Film Screening: The Breadwinner 2017
Time and Location: at A.M. Qattan Foundation in Al-Tira, Ramallah, at 6:00 p.m.
94 mins. | 13+ | Canada/Ireland/Luxembourg | English with Arabic Subtitles
Director: Nora Twomey
The animated feature The Breadwinner tells the story of 11-year-old Parvana, who gives up her identity to provide for her family and save her father's life. Parvana's father had told imaginative stories to her while she helped him work in the Kabul market.
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21 September 2019
Lecture Performance: Godefroid, the Bastard son of Antara Bin-Shaddad 2019 - Samah Hijawy
Time and Location: at A.M. Qattan Foundation in Al-Tira, Ramallah, at 6:00 p.m.
70 mins. | Performed in Arabic
A story that jumps through time and across geographies brings the artist and her grandmother to Palestine, together with two well-known European personalities: Godefroy de Bouillon, known as the first king of Jerusalem, and the 16th-century Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Hijawi moves from the present through the centuries from Jerusalem to Brussels to London and then back to Jerusalem
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25 September 2019
Film Screening: Samir in the Dust 2015
Time and Location: at A.M. Qattan Foundation in Al-Tira, Ramallah, at 6:00 p.m.
59 mins. | 15+ | Algeria/France/Qatar | French and Arabic with English subtitles
Director: Mohamed Ouzine
This small cemetery, bordering the valley that separates Algeria from Morocco, is called the Cemetery of Sidi Amar because it is where the marabout has been laid to rest, in some miserable barrack-turned-mausoleum. It is here that he perished at the beginning of the 20th century. He has become the confidant of an entire territory as families visit the cemetery to ask him to intercede in their favour.