Saturday, March 08, 2025 at 5:30pm - 8:30pm (EST) - in person at The People's Forum, 320 W 37th St, New York, NY
Third World Women Resist: NYC Leila and the Wolves Screening and Discussion
In solidarity with the national call by Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC), CODEPINK, and International Women's Association: CODEPINK NYC, PFC NYC, and AF3IRM NYC are screening the film Leila and the Wolves (Leila wa za'ib) followed by a discussion and Q&A on the often-neglected role of women in resistance/liberation movements.
Heiny Srour's film follows Leila, a young Lebanese woman in London, who time-travels through twentieth-century Lebanon and Palestine and focuses on the central, militant role women played in Palestinian and Lebanese resistance movements. Srour combines archival footage, dramatic reenactments, fantastical imagery, and Arab mythology to retell the modern, anti-colonial history of the Levant from a feminist point of view.
Masks are encouraged