Thursday, December 5 · 7pm EST. Doors at 6:40pm - in person at List Art Building: Room 120, 64 College St Providence, RI
IFF x Magic Lantern Present: Screening of THE PALESTINE EXCEPTION
Ages 17+
By Ivy Film Festival
Join us for a screening of The Palestine Exception and a following panel discussion with the directors, Jan Haaken and Marlene Eid, as well as student and faculty organizers at Brown University.
After years of right-wing assaults on higher education, attacks took a new form in 2023 and 2024 that has been described as the new McCarthyism. As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel–the “Palestine exception”–are shattered. This film features professors and students as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the police and politicians. Scholars from diverse disciplines explain what is at stake in these protests and why so many young people identify with the Palestinian cause. The documentary unfolds as a story of college campuses as sites of both rebellion and repression, places where personal and collective histories converge in unexpected ways.
TRAILER // https://fb.watch/w6eaE5gA9d/
This event is FREE. Seating is first come first served.
Bag and Food Policy: Bags, food, and unsealed drinks are not permitted in the auditorium. Please plan accordingly.
Disclaimer: Given that this is a free event we release more tickets than capacity with the expectation that individuals will not show up. The best way to guarantee admission is to show up before 6:30pm. Standby line is admitted around 6:50 pm.