Date: September 19, 2025, Time: Doors open at 7pm, screening starts at 8:30pm - Address: Brooklyn Commons Park, 5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY
Ticket Price: Free with RSVP
Outdoor Film Screening - In collaboration with Rooftop Films
Film Program:
There Was, There Was Not, Emily Mkrtichian, 2024, Armenia, US, 94 mins.
Armenian, with English subtitles
There Was, There Was Not follows four women living in the Republic of Artsakh, an unrecognized country reckoning with the aftermath of one war while on the precipice of another. In the midst of this uncertainty, four women build a life with the hope of making their home a better place. When war breaks out again, what began as an observational meditation on women’s roles after conflict becomes an urgent and intimate record of their lives interrupted once again by war.
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing, Theo Panagopoulos, 2024, UK, 17 mins.
Silent
When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender essay film questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and land.