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• Visualizing Palestine
• carte Skalpel Catachrèse

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• Photo and video credit
• On the whole site Alexandra Dols
• Page Film : tee shirt : Mohammed Abedallah
• Contributor Page :
  check point ©B’teselem
  Christian cross : ©Activestills
  child on grave : ©Eman Mohammed
  children in the tree: ©Hamde Abu Rahme
• Music
• DLF soundtrack, Baraka and Belaïc Roubin

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A contributor to French website Le cinéma est politique [Movies are politics], she has also been teaching visual literacy in a self-defense perspective in working-class neighborhoods since 2009.

Issues of power and image are a core component of her transdisciplinary work.

In 2017, she co-published Dr. Samah Jabr’s first book, with French publishing house PMN Editions.

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

Day-to-day colonization does not only involve occupying land, homes, the sky or water. It does not seek to impose its rule through weapons only. It molds the minds as well, beyond the frontlines.
Our movie deals with the invisible aspects of colonization, i.e. intimate occupation, occupation of the mental space. Within this context, mental balance, self-esteem, state of mind, the soul: all these become spaces and issues of resistance.
The audience is made to understand and feel oppression and suffocation, just as much as the vital breath and sumood of Palestinians. Excerpts from columns, interviews and didactic elements mix with artistic experiments.
Editing follows and shapes the two distinct yet intertwined paces of both longstanding transgenerational traumas and sporadic shocks occurring in times of crisis.
Our movie is thick with information and emotions. By distancing itself from the immediacy, and sometimes spectacularisation, of the news, it asserts modesty as a form of aesthetics.
Modesty is necessary to approach and convey pain, hurt bodies and wounded souls. Such modesty enables to film dignity.
I did not want to present one single portrait, but rather suggest plurality through the representation of individuals whose diverse identities, religions, sexual orientations, political cultures, social backgrounds and geographical origins, all come together in their struggle against occupation. This new approach has been recognized by the audience as being intersectional feminism.
Based on the Palestinian case, this documentary is a reflection about mechanisms of domination, alienation and conditions of emancipation. Let us hope that the interviewees’ testimonies will resonate and inspire others well above their own realities.

FILMOGRAPHY

• MINIMUM SYNDICAL fearuring queer members of French labour union “Solidaires” – 26min – 2019
• BEYOND THE FRONTLINES: TALES OF RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCEIN PALESTINE On the psychological consequences of the Israeli occupation and the Palestinians’ resistance and resilience – 113 min – 2017
• WOMEN IN PALESTINE with Dr. Samah Jabr – 11 min – 2015
• QUI SEME LA HAGRA They who Sow the Hagra – 15 min – 2014
• MOUDJAHIDATE women activism for the Algerian independence within the National Liberation Front – 75 min – 2008
  
• LA TETE DE MA MERE – Work of fiction – 10 min – 2002

PRODUCTION NOTE

Palestine is facing a critical moment in its history. This is a time when, more than ever, cinema must play its role, i.e. gather people around a filmic experience so they can share, learn, feel and finally find the means to act.

This necessity coincides with our desire to begin and broadcast our film, and the Palestinian perspective it embraces, internationally. This would be an opportunity to make the work and thought of Dr. Samah Jabr better known. The main character of our movie, this Palestinian psychiatrist and writer is an heiress to Dr. Frantz Fanon. She seeks to decolonize the minds and the field of psychiatry at the same time.

After a successful release in French movie theaters, and winning the Sunbird Award for Best Documentary Film at the “Days of Cinema” Film Festival in Palestine, we are currently looking for distributors, networks and overall support for international broadcasting.

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AWARD

• Sunbird award Best documentary – Festival “Days of Cinema” Palestine (oct 2017)

OFFICIAL SELECTION

2019

• Good Morning Festival
  (Lyon – FRANCE)
• Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival
  (Tunis – TUNISIA)
• AL ARD Film Festival
  (Cagliari – ITALY)
• Houston Palestine Film Festival
  (Houston – USA)
• Encounters South African International Documentary Festival (Cape-Town, Johannesbourg – SOUTH AFRICA)
• Festival Résistances (Foix – FRANCE)
• Leeds Palestinian Film Festival (Leeds – ENGLAND)

2018

• Screening Rights – Festival of Social Justice Film
  (Birmingham – ENGLAND) 
• SOAS University – UK Palestine Mental Health Network
  (London – ENGLAND)
• Festival des Libertés
  (Bruxelles – BELGIUM)
• Chouftouhonna
  Festival international d’art féministe – 4ème édition (Tunis – TUNISIA)
• XII Festival de Cine de los Derechos Humanos 
  (Valparaiso – CHILI)
• XIV Festival Internacional de Cine de los Derechos Humanos
  (Sucre – BOLIVIE)
• Festival ICE
  «International Contemporary Ensemble» (Saint Jean du Doigt – FRANCE)
• San Mauro Film festival
  (ITALIE)

2017

• Days of Cinema (Palestine)
  Sunbird Award for Best Documentary Film
• Douarnenez Film Festival
  Official selection (France)
• Stockholm Independent Film Festival
  Official selection (Sweden)
• French Institute in Tunis
  Carte blanche to writer Youssef Seddik (Tunis – TUNISIA)
• Middle East Studies Association FilmFest
  Private screening for MESA members (Washington, USA)
• Palestine en Vue
  Official selection (France)
• Panorama des cinémas du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient
  Official selection (France)
• Festival Filmer c’est exister
  (Genève, SUISSE)
• Festival Ciné Palestine
  (Liège -BELGIQUE)
• Festival cinéma engagé
  (Rennes -FRANCE)
• Lakecity Film Festival
  (NIGERIA)

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