chicago palestine film festival

Looking inward at the Chicago Palestine Film Festival

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 17:02
This year’s festival featured work by filmmakers asking questions for their own community.

Honoring Palestinian history: filmmaker Annemarie Jacir on "When I Saw You"

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 18:13
Annemarie Jacir on honoring the fedayeen who believed return to Palestine was a possibility.

Palestine film festivals to open in Chicago and London, plus other cinema news

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 04/19/2013 - 18:45
Paradise Now director Hany Abu-Assad’s new film selected for the Cannes Film Festival.

Film review: Palestinians in Israel honored in debut comedy feature

Maureen Clare Murphy
10 May 2012
The under-recognized steadfastness of Palestinians who clung onto their land in the areas of Palestine upon which the State of Israel was declared is lovingly praised in Sameh Zoabi’s lighthearted debut feature Man Without a Cell Phone.

Around the world, film festivals put focus on Palestine

20 May 2011
As Palestinians across the world commemorated the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba — the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland in 1947-48 — activists in North America and the UK launched another season of local film festivals that illustrate and emphasize the Palestinian experience.

London Palestine Film Festival opens tomorrow!

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 23:08

The 2011 London Palestine Flim Festival will open tomorrow, Friday, 29 April and will run through 11 May.

The opening night will feature Zindeeq to be followed by a q & a with director Michel Khleifi and producer Omar Al-Qattan, chaired by Karma Nabulsi.

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