Join us for an evening of film, food, and collective discussion as part of Palestine Cinema Days, organised by Filmlab Palestine.

We'll be screening two films:

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing (2024), by Greek-Lebanese-Palestinian filmmaker Theo Panagopoulos, reclaims archival footage of Palestinian wildflowers filmed by a Scottish missionary in the 1930s and 1940s. Revisiting these images, the film questions the colonial gaze, the erasure of Palestinian presence and the relationship between land and memory.

The Dream (Al-Manam) (1987), by Syrian filmmaker Mohamad Malas, was filmed in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon in 1980. Inviting people to recount their dreams, the film moves between memory, lived experience and imagination, offering a different encounter with lives so often represented through displacement and suffering.

At a time when Palestinian life is relentlessly documented through images of violence and destruction, we want to think about what cinema can make possible beyond witnessing.

How might film help us imagine otherwise, not as a distraction from political reality, but as part of the work of transforming it? How might reclaiming the past and imagining different futures inform the struggle for a liberated Palestine?

Following the screenings, we'll bring the two films into conversation with one another, opening up a collective discussion shaped by what we've watched and the thoughts and questions we each bring.

Monday 2 November, 7-9:30pm

Free entry, but RSVP is essential. Spaces are limited and no tickets will be available on the door.

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