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The second day continues with Geographies of Resistance, a program tracing histories of occupation, settler colonialism, and resistance across Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria. Through archival and revolutionary cinema, the films revisit colonial archives, document life under occupation, bear witness to destruction and displacement, and reflect on the enduring relation between land, memory, and resistance.

We conclude the evening with Perpetual Recurrences by Reem Shilleh, followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.

Chapter Two
Geographies of Resistance

17:45 - 19:15 Film Screening from Subversive Film Archives:
Palestine, the Road to Tragedy by Don Catchlove
Scenes from Occupation: Qazfrom by Moustafa Abuali
Kuneitra. Death of a City by G. Yacoub
Kufr Shuba by  Samir Nimr

19:15 - 20:00  Dinner with Het Rode Keukentje

20:00 - 21:00 Film Screening
Perpetual Recurrences by Reem Shilleh
21:00 - 21:45 Discussion with a filmmaker

21:40 - 22:30 Wrap up with music and drinks

Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.

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Palestine, the Road to Tragedy
dir. Don Catchlove (From the Subversive Film Archive) / 1970 / UK / 21’ / Arabic w/ EN subs

Commissioned by the Arab League, the director Don Catchlove repurposes the colonial British archives to explore the Palestinian question, starting from the British Mandate and followed by the Palestinian uprising against the mandate and the creeping Zionist settlement project. Although made by a British director, the film is considered one of the early attempts to decolonise the archives in relation to Palestine, presenting a narrative of resistance that comes from within the archive itself, countering the Western narrative about the events that led to the colonisation of Palestine.


Scenes from the Occupation in Gaza
dir. Moustafa Abuali (From the Subversive Film Archive) / 1973 / LB / 13’ /  Arabic w/ EN subs

A rare film by the legendary filmmaker Mustafa Abu Ali, one of the founders of the Palestine Film Unit, the first cinematic arm of the Palestinian revolution. Abu Ali edited this footage, originally shot by a French news crew, creating one of the earliest films about the occupied territories in the Gaza Strip. Scenes from the Occupation in Gaza uses experimental montage techniques to produce a film that is both cinematically and politically agitational. It was the only film produced by the Palestinian Cinema Group, which later became known as the Palestinian Cinema Institution in 1974.

Kuneitra: Death of a City
dir. G. Yacoub (From the Subversive Film Archive) / 1974 / UK / 26’ / Arabic w/ EN subs

Kuneitra: Death of a City was made by the American Peace Committee to document the UN-commissioned forensic investigation of the atrocities committed by the Israeli army in the town of Kuneitra in the occupied Golan Heights. Shots of the remnants of destruction of religious sites, graveyards and homes interlace interviews that were made with the town residents with their recollections of what had happened.

Kufr Shuba
dir. Samir Nimr (From the Subversive Film Archive) / 1975 / UK / 35’ / Arabic w/ EN subs

An iconic work produced by the Palestinian Cinema Institution in Beirut, directed by Iraqi filmmaker Samir Nimr. The film is named after the small village of Kfar Shouba in southern Lebanon, which became a site of solidarity between the Lebanese people and the Palestinian resistance after a battle that devastated the village. The film stands as an epic testimony to people’s love for their land, their steadfastness, and their struggle for liberation.

Perpetual Reacurrences 
dir. Reem Shilleh / 2016 / PS / 60’ / Arabic w/ EN subs

Four decades of filmmaking in and about Palestine come together in this montage by Reem Shilleh. The film tracks repetition in films by militant filmmakers from the Palestinian revolutionary period 1968–82 and in more contemporary films.