SUNDAYS, APRIL 7, 14, 21, 28, 4-6 PM
LATCHIS THEATER, BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT
Admission by donation - APRIL 21 – THEME: LIFE IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE
My Neighborhood (2012), 25 min.
Filmmaker and creative director of Just Vision: Julia Bacha; director/producer/editor: Rebekah Wingert-Jabi
Mohammed El Kurd, an 11-year old boy living in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, comes home from school to find half of his home taken over by Israeli settlers. Forced to live under the same roof, he develops deep feelings of animosity toward them. When Israeli activists join Palestinian residents in protesting the takeovers, Mohammed is surprised and asks himself, “These are Jews?" Together they struggle to stop the evictions.
Rafeef Ziadah: "We Teach Life" (2011), 5 min.
Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian-Canadian poet and human rights activist.
Mohammed El-Kurd: "Dispossession, Resistance, Human Rights" (2023), 22 min.
The talk was recorded by the Media Education Fund.
A dozen years after starring in My Neighborhood, Mohammed El-Kurd, now an award-winning writer, poet and correspondent for The Nation magazine and culture editor of Mondoweiss, gave a talk entitled "Understanding Israel/Palestine: Dispossession, Resistance, & Human Rights" at UMass, Amherst, on Nov. 13, 2023, hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine.
Rafeef Ziadah: "Shades of Anger" (2011), 4 min.
The Present (2020), 23 min.
Director, executive producer & co-writer: Farah Nabulsi; producer: Ossama Bawardi; co-writer: Hind Shoufani
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his daughter set out to buy a gift for his wife. With soldiers at checkpoints and segregated roads in the West Bank, how easy is it to go shopping? An Academy Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film, starring acclaimed Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri. According to the director, "At its essence, this is a story about human dignity."
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