Palestine Cinema Days: A State of Passion

Réžia Carol Mansour, Muna Khalidi, 2024. 90 min, arabic/english + english sub

Keďže medzinárodné spravodajské agentúry, svetoví lídri a platformy sociálnych sietí naďalej cenzurujú a skresľujú naratív a zároveň živia dehumanizáciu Palestínčanov*iek a ich pretrvávajúce utrpenie, využívame naše kanály na podporu násilne zrušeného festivalu Dni palestínskeho filmu.

2. novembra, na výročie Balfourovej deklarácie, organizujeme viac ako 500 premietaní palestínskych filmov po celom svete. Toto globálne úsilie je prejavom solidarity s Palestínou, aktom zosilnenia cenzurovaných palestínskych hlasov a snahou o posun skresleného naratívu.

O filme
Britsko-palestínsky chirurg Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah strávil 43 dní v bombardovanej Gaze a bezodkladne ošetroval zranených*é. Jeho práca sa stala symbolom odporu tvárou v tvár hrozným zraneniam, útokom na nemocnice a osirelým deťom. Tento film skúma jeho šiestu a najtrýznivejšiu vojnu v Gaze, obavy jeho rodiny a spoločný záujem o Palestínu, ktorá poháňa jeho neúnavnú humanitárnu misiu napriek nebezpečenstvu.

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A feature-length documentary film by Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi. After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant
bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, emerged to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance. With news footage of him pale and shell-shocked reverberating around the world, he spoke of a catalogue of horrors from lacerated bodies, to
amputations without anesthetics, orphaned children with no surviving family, and the deliberate targeting of medics and hospital facilities. This was Ghassan’s sixth and most horrific Gaza “war”. Why does he do
it? Where does he find the strength to face it again and again? How does it impact his family? How do they process the risks he takes? The answer lies simply in their shared passion: Palestine, a passion they articulate through their support of his perilous humanitarian work.Filmmakers Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi, close friends of the Abu
Sittahs, share that same passion. They were waiting anxiously for Ghassan to emerge from Gaza, following a long and terrifying journey
through the night, to meet him in Amman. Determined to capture his raw emotions they began filming him the moment he arrived through the door. Following him to Beirut, Amman, London, Kuwait and Dubai, they and he explore their common State of Passion.

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