DC Palestinian Film + Arts Festival
OCTOBER 1 - 4, 2015 | WASHINGTON, DC
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October 1
7:30 - 8:40 PM
The Wanted 18
The Wanted 18 is a unique production that combines stop-motion animation, interviews, original drawings, and archival footage to bring to life one of the strangest chapters in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
8:40 - 9:15 PM
Q&A with Amer Shomali
Co-Director of The Wanted 18; Amer Shomali, will be present for the Q&A following the film screening.
9:15 - 10:30 PM
Opening Reception
Join us for our free opening reception. Get some food and drinks and talk to members of the DCPFAF.
October 2
6:00 - 7:45 PM
Book Talk with Suad Amiry
Featuring: Sharon and my Mother-In-Law, Golda Sleeps Here. Suad Amiry is an author and also an architect living in the West Bank city of Ramallah. She studied architecture at the American University of Beirut, the University of Michigan, and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
8:00 -9:30 PM
Giraffada
Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He lives alone with his 10-year old son, Ziad. The kid has a special bond with the two giraffes in the zoo. He seems to be the only one to communicate with them. After an air raid in the region the male giraffe dies. His mate, Rita, won’t survive unless the veterinarian finds her a new companion. The only zoo that might provide this animal is located in Tel Aviv.
October 3
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Nun wa Zaytun
While listening to the stories of the people Murad meets with his Mobile Cinema, trekking from one venue to another, Nūn wa Zaytun transports us to another Palestine. We encounter a simple rural life, far from the cultural and social stereotypes of modern, urban Ramallah or Tel Aviv, only kilometers away.
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Living of the Pigeons
Its 1:30 after midnight, the cold is sneaking. The streets leading to the checkpoint named ‘300’ which allocated to cross from Bethlehem to Jerusalem are empty and silent. The apartheid wall touches the checkpoint; the coffee man is preparing his stuff, while close to him, his father who passed over his 50s already started displaying their wares on wooden planks to be seen. All awaits the arrival of hundreds of workers shortly after, and what will happen next is something that eyes don't often see.
12:00 - 12:30 PM
Q&A with DCPFAF Panel
Led by Suad Amiry and Noura Erakat. A discussion will be held to talk about the DCPFAF and what it stands for, and share some of the plans to take place in the near future.
12:45 - 2:00 PM
Photojournalism in Gaza by Eman Mohammed
Moderated by Laila al-Haddad. Eman Mohammed, 27, Palestinian refugee was born in Saudi Arabia and educated in Gaza City, Palestine, where she started her photojournalism career at the age of 19 in 2006. Eman’s work focuses on documenting the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, including invasions and wars that frequently occur in the area and the formation of armed militant groups in the strip.
2:15 - 3:30 PM
Roshmia
An elderly couple in a final stand-off with the local authorities to maintain their natural lifestyle in Roshmia; the last natural valley in Haifa. Yousef and Amna have lived in a shack all alone in their eighties since 1965 in what seems to be a life of serenity; far away from the loudness of novelty. Life remains peaceful in Roshmia until the local authorities endorse a new road project and orders to confiscate the land, demolish the shack and throw out its inhabitants.
3:45 - 5:00 PM
The Wanted 18
The Wanted 18 is a unique production that combines stop-motion animation, interviews, original drawings, and archival footage to bring to life one of the strangest chapters in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
October 4
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Hamule
In audio tapes and home films from the 70s, CHILEAN-PALESTINIAN FILMMAKER, Mauricio Misle, found impactful memories from his family in Palestine that portray a brutal episode of Israel’s colonization.
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Pioneer High
In January of 1969, seventeen-year-old Hala emigrates with her family from Palestine to Michigan and attends a public high school with a dress code wherein girls cannot wear pants. With her limited grasp of the English language, Hala repeatedly disobeys the rules, wearing pants day after day. Ultimately she unknowingly, or knowingly, starts a revolution in her new school.
12:00 - 12:25 PM
Q&A with Filmmakers
Directors of Hamule and Pioneer High; Mauricio Misle & Suha Araj, will be present for the Q&A following the films screening. Misle will be joining us all the way from Chile!
12:30 - 1:45 PM
My Love Awaits Me By the Sea
My Love Awaits Me by the Sea' is a poetic documentary narrating the story of the director who takes a first time journey back to her homeland, Palestine.
2:00 - 3:15 PM
Arabic Literary Program with Ibtisam Azem
Ibtisam Azem talks about her second published novel, Sifr al-Ikhtifaa, (The Book of disappearance), followed by Book Signing.
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Villa Touma
Three unmarried and aristocratic Christian sisters in Ramallah shut themselves in their villa to cling to their former glory until their orphan niece turns their lives upside down.
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Mars at Sunrise
Mars at Sunrise tells the story of a war waged on imagination. The film abstractly portrays the conflict between artists on either side of Israel’s militarized borders, and explores how a powerful creative mind survives, and even thrives, under pressure.
7:30 - 10:00 PM
Closing Reception
Join us for our free closing reception. Get some food and drinks and talk to members of the DCPFAF.
