This week, 6 Palestinian films will be screened as part of the “Palestine Cinema Week” program, organized by the National Cinema Center in Egypt. The performances, which opened yesterday, December 3, will be held with the movie “From Under the Ruins,” and will continue until the eighth of the same month in the Hanager Theater at the Cairo Opera House.
Documentation of occupation massacres
The film “From Under the Ruins” by director Anne Tsoulis documents, in 85 minutes, the Israeli occupation’s massacre against the “Al-Samuni” family during the aggression on Gaza in December 2008, known as the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood massacre. The operation was carried out against the Al-Salmouni family on January 4. /January 2009, and it was described at the time as a mass execution.
The narration of events in the documentary was similar to the events taking place in Palestine since the seventh of last October.
Another crime is presented in the 60-minute documentary “Sherine Abu Aqleh” by director Maan Samara, which was shown today (December 4th), as it monitors the assassination of Palestinian journalist Sherine Abu Aqleh through live testimonies of witnesses to the incident.
Another documentary film, shown within the Palestinian Cinema Week, is the film “Racism” by director Fayek Jarada, which expresses with the camera the daily provocations to which the Palestinian people are exposed, mixed with a group of interviews with university professors who provide a political and historical analysis of the aspects of Israeli racism and its manifestations towards the Palestinian people.
In “Karim Free” by director Gibran Khalil Hamadeh, over the course of nearly an hour, the director documents the life of the freedom fighter Karim Younes, who gained his freedom after nearly 40 years of detention, and his return to his family and homeland once again.
Gaza Monamor
In addition to the documentaries, the feature film “Gaza Monamor” is also screened within the program.
The film is written and directed by Arab Nasser and stars Salim Daou, Hiam Abbas, and Maysaa Abdel Hadi. The film is humane about how citizens live under the pressure of occupation, through an old fisherman over 60 who falls in love with a seamstress who works in the market, and through the love story that arose between them, we see the non-human life under The brunt of the occupation, and the suffering they are subjected to in the simplest basics of life, such as water, electricity, and other basic daily matters.
Palestine Cinema Week concludes with the animated film “The Tower” by Norwegian director Mats Grøreid, who spent a period of time in Burj al-Barajneh camp in Lebanon, which later prompted him to present an animated film that sheds light on the lives of Palestinian refugees through different age generations, starting with displacement. Forced forced labor of the Palestinian people and the establishment of Israel in 1948, and even the fourth generation of Nakba refugees of 1948.
During the events, the child, “Warda,” represents the fourth generation, as her grandfather hands her the key to his house in Palestine in the hope of returning to her homeland again.
