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Film of the Week - A film every Wednesday at 5pm Jerusalem Time

Last week, the Palestine Film Platform launched the fifth edition of its Film of the Week series, streaming Palestinian feature films for free. Every Wednesday at 5pm Jerusalem time (10am EST), PFP will be making a new film available on their website.

The series kicks off with three weeks of films underlining the ties that bind Syria and Palestine. The first film of the series, streaming until this Wednesday, is Ayouni (2020).

Ayouni follows Noura and Machi search for answers about their loved ones – Palestinian Syrian Bassel Safadi and Italian Paolo Dall’Oglio, who were among over 130,000 forcibly disappeared in Syria. Faced with the limbo of an overwhelming absence of information, hope is the only thing their families have to hold on to. ‘Ayouni’ is a deeply resonant Arabic term of endearment - meaning ‘my eyes’ and understood as ‘my love’. Filmed over 6 years and across multiple countries in search of answers, Ayouni is an attempt to give numbers faces, to give silence a voice, and to make the invisible undeniably visible.

To watch Ayouni and all upcoming films in the series, visit their website. A new film becomes available starting at 5pm Jerusalem (10am est) time every week.

(note: Ayouni became available last Wednesday and a new film will be showcased this coming week. This film can still be watched free through Wednesday at 10am)