Kino Palestine in Bratislava: Presentation & curated screening of short films

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🍉Efforts to preserve and reclaim Palestinian visual archives confront erasure, decades of dispossession, and limited accessibility. Beginning with a screening of rare, restored films from the Palestinian archive, the presentation will examine how these films, more than historical records, serve as a testament to Palestinian efforts to establish a counter-narrative through the moving image and to preserve cultural heritage during this period. We will also address current initiatives to reclaim visual archives that Palestinians are systematically denied.

📍18.00 screening

🔗Ma’loul Celebrates Its Destruction (Michel Khleifi, 1985, 32min)
Like countless Palestinian villages since 1948, Ma’loul has been erased from the map. Every year on Israel’s ‘independence day’ (the only day that no permits are needed to move around that area freely) Ma’loul’s expelled indigenous Palestinian inhabitants go back to their village, to show their children where they are from, to re-conjure the houses, the school, the bakery.

🔗The Urgent Call (Ismail Shammout, 1973, 6min)
During his time as the director of the Cultural Arts Section of the PLO, the Palestinian painter Ismail Shammout also actively engaged with the film unit of the organisation. In this short film, we see the Palestinian singer Zeinab Shaath performing her song The Urgent Call of Palestine. This song became an important solidarity ballad, urging the world to hear the Palestinian call. When the ballad is swiftly interrupted by Kamal Nasser, we hear him say: “We want the world to know that we have a cause”.

🔗The Game (Shirak, 1973, 16min)
“The game they play is the game of war itself”, writes filmmaker and scholar Qais Zubeidi. In 1973, Shirak directed this short film in which the games of Palestinian children increasingly merge with warfare. Remnants of combat, such as bullets and tanks, are the toys of a group of young boys.

🔗Palestine and Japan (T. Maki, 1979, 20min)
The film bridges the distance between Japan and Palestine and foregrounds the political links between the two countries. Made following the opening of the Palestine Liberation Organisation office in Tokyo, we are informed of the different solidarity networks in Japan.

🔗Beirut 1982 (Ryūichi Hirokawa, 1982, 18min)
Beirut 1982 was filmed by Ryūichi Hirokawa together with Tetsuro Nunokawa, a central figure in the Japan Documentarist Union. The former narrates his personal
account of the lives of Palestinians and their resistance in Beirut following the massacre of Sabra and Shatila in 1982.

📍 after the screening/ 19:35 presentation by Kino Palestine + Q&A


🍉KINO PALESTINE🍉 is a series of screenings featuring Palestinian films and discussions with Palestinian filmmakers within Prague’s cultural scene, on-going since December 2023. These screenings aim to provide a platform to amplify Palestinian voices, bring their narrative to the city and solidify solidarity from the art and cultural scene with Palestinians and Palestinian artists.

🍉Zaher Jureidini is a Lebanese cinematographer based in Prague, where he earned a master’s degree in Cinematography at FAMU. His work spans narrative and non-narrative visual projects, including short films and video works. Notable projects include Sea Salt (2023), a Czech-Lebanese short film that premiered at the 80th Venice Film Festival. In 2024, he was a cinematography fellow at the Busan Asian Film Academy. Zaher also engages in curatorial work and film research, exploring how moving images shape political and historical narratives. He is the co-founder of Kino Palestine, a series of screenings of Palestinian films in Prague, ongoing since December 2023.

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🍉 Kino Palestine je séria premietaní palestínskych filmov a diskusií s palestínskym autorstvom, ktoré prebiehajú v Prahe od decembra 2023. Cieľom týchto premietaní je poskytnúť platformu na zosilnenie palestínskych hlasov, priniesť palestínske rozprávanie do mesta a upevniť solidaritu umeleckej a kultúrnej scény s Palestínčanmi*kami a palestínskymi umelcami a umelkyňami. Projekciu uvedie prezentáciou Zaher Jureidini, kameraman pôvodom z Libanonu, ktorý sa venuje aj kurátorskej práci, filmovej teórii a výskumu. Je členom kolektívu Kino Palestine.
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