On Gaza عن غزة // post-screening conversation with director Mary Jirmanus Saba

A tribute to a Gaza that no longer exists, these films urge us to ask ourselves, what is our responsibility to Gaza?

Mahdi Amel in Gaza: On the Colonial Mode of Production مهدي عامل في غزة

dir. Tareq Rantisi & Mary Jirmanus Saba
2024
Original Language: Arabic, English (English subtitles)
Genre: Documentary, Short

Assassinated Lebanese intellectual Mahdi Amel — often dubbed “the Arab Gramsci” — famously said: “He who resists is never defeated.” What use is his thought to us today, and what is our responsibility as image makers to Gaza?

Content notes: Themes of colonialism, genocide and occupation. Descriptions of death.

Life Is Beautiful: A Letter to Gaza الحياة حلوة

dir. Mohamed Jabaly
2023
Original Language: Arabic, Norwegian, English (English subtitles)
Genre: Documentary

The young Palestinian director Mohamed Jabaly is visiting a film festival in Tromsø in 2014, when the borders to Gaza close. He finds himself stuck in the arctic winter. Little does he know that it will be seven years before he can see his family again.

Content notes: Themes of racism, islamophobia, state violence, migration and exile. Depictions of bombing, loud noises and colonial violence. Mentions of death, depression, incarceration and birth complications.