Ciné Résistance - The Palestinian Cause: «Little Palestine – Diary of a Siege» (2022) by Abdallah Al-Khatib
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Ciné Résistance at soso: The Palestinian Cause
Little Palestine – Diary of a Siege, Abdallah Al-Khatib, 84min, 2022
The district of Yarmouk (Damascus, Syria) sheltered the biggest Palestinian refugee camp in the world from 1957 to 2018. When the Syrian revolution broke out, the regime of Bashar Al-Assad saw Yarmouk as a refuge of rebels and resistance and set up a siege from 2013 on. Gradually deprived of food, medicine and electricity, Yarmouk was cut off from the rest of the world.
Abdallah Al-Khatib was born in Yarmouk and lived there until his expulsion by Daesh in 2015. Between 2011 and 2015, he and his friends documented the daily life of the besieged inhabitants, who decided to face bombing, displacement and hunger with rallying, study, music, love and joy.Hundreds of lives were irredeemably transformed by war and siege – from Abdallah’s mother, who turned into a nurse taking care of the elderly at the camp, to the fiercest activists whose passion for Palestine got gradually undermined by hunger.
https://lightdox.com/little-palestine-diary-of-a-siege/
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Q&A and discussion
The documentary will be introduced by M., currently living in Switzerland, himself born and raised in the Syrian district of Yarmouk, home to millions of Palestinian refugees. Through his own life experience and friendships to people shown in the documentary, M. intimately knows about the events that have taken place in Yarmouk and will share his thoughts on why those events are exemplary for the situation of many Palestinian (refugees) everywhere in the world.
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soso.space launches a new format: Ciné Résistance.
On Tuesday evenings, soso.space will be screening motion pictures and documentaries viewing global history, issues and causes from the perspective of the oppressed, starting on 30 January with a film series about Palestine and the Palestinian cause.
The movies and documentaries shown will all be selected and – if possible - presented by people affected by the cause. We hope to create a space, where people affected, their allies and people interested to understand history and context of ongoing issues can meet. The bar will stay open after the movie screenings and offer space for discussions for everyone who wants to stay for a drink.
These movie screenings are Soli-events. Every contribution to run the event is voluntary. The collected funds at the door will be going to an organization related to the cause shown in the screening in full. The bar revenue will be used to pay for the expenses of the event.
Ciné Résistance wants to provide a safer space for people to come together, talk, share thoughts or just watch a movie and get inspired. We certainly encourage SWANA-people to join.
Ciné Résistance is preparing a list of links and information about Palestine/Gaza and the ongoing genocide in order to give people the possibility to educate themselves if required. Until further notice, the evenings on the topic of Palestine are taking place on a weekly basis.
soso.space will provide a bar at low cost, tea and snacks for free. Before and after the screening, curated music will be played, selected by artists close to the cause.
ıllıllı PROGRAM ıllıllı
◉ 30.01.2024: "Farha" von Darin J. Sallam | Zoom Livecall w. Amal (Sanad Palestine)
◉ 06.02.2024: "Born in Gaza" (Hernán Zin) | The Present (Farah Nabulsi) | Intro: Rana Bassil
◉ 13.02.2024: "A World Not Ours" by Mahdi Fleifel + Q&A w. Ahmed AlRokh | Intro: Ahmed AlRokh
◉ 20.02.2024 «Salt of This Sea» by Annemarie Jacir | Intro: B.
◉ 27.02.2024: «Checkpoint» by Yoav Shamir | Intro: A.
◉ 05.03.2024: Mo Amer: Mohammed In Texas & The Vagabond | Intro: M.
◉ 13.03.2024: (WED instead of TUE) "Life Is Beautiful - Al Haya Helwa" by and with Mohamed Jabaly @ Reitschulkino in collab with Cine Liminal
◉ 19.03.2024: "Tantura" by Alon Schwarz | Intro: Sami Daher
◉ 26.03.2024: "Skies above Hebron" (2020) by Esther Hertog & Paul King
◉ 02.04.2024: "Khiam 2000 - 2007" (2008) by Joana Hadjithomas & Khali Joreige
◉ 16.04.2024: «Arna’s Children» (2003) by Juliano Mer Khamis | Intro: Ahmed Al Rokh
◉ 23.04.2024: «Naila and the Uprising» (2017) by Julia Bacha | Intro: Rima
◉ 30.04.2024: «Israelism» (2023) by Erin Axelman & Sam Eilertsen
◉ 07.05.2024: «Budrus» (2009) by Julia Bacha | Intro: Burhan
◉ 14.05.2024 @ Unibern Occupied
◉ 21.05.2024 «Everything Must Fall» (2018) by Rehad Desai | Talk: Eduardo Kapapelo + O
◉ 28.05.2024: «Little Palestine – Diary of a Siege» (2022) by Abdallah Al-Khatib | Intro: M
◉ 04.06.2024: Radical Mapping - Unmasking complicity, visibilizing resistance
◉ 11.06.2024: «Where Olive Trees Weep» (2024) by Zaya & Maurizia Benazzio
The collected funds will go to Sanad initiative for Palestine.
IG: @sanad_palestine / More info about Sanad.
◉ Every Tuesday at soso.space
◉ Movie screening, Bar, Food & Music
◉ 18.30 Doors, Bar, Music / 19.30 Movie Screening
◉ All movie screenings with English subtitles
◉ There will be chairs for the screening
◉ Please contact us if you are using a wheelchair
◉ Music curated by Juan Awile aka Phrex
Contact: office@sososo.space