The London Palestine Film Festival
Organisation: Barbican
Time: 30 April 2010 7:45pm - 14 May 2010 9:00pm
Place: Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
The Barbican presents:
The London Palestine Film Festival
The London Palestine Film Festival returns with another selection of vital documentary, fiction, art, and animation work by, about and from Palestinians and their country.
This year, as always, the Festival presents new as well as rarely seen archive films from across the world, and a rich series of panel discussions and Q&As on the cultures, film industries and critical politics of Palestine and the Middle East.
The Festival opens with director Elia Suleiman’s latest feature The Time That Remains, followed by a ScreenTalk with a director.
Further highlights will include the first Palestinian animation (Ahmad Habash’s Fatenah), the UK premiere of Eyal Sivan’s groundbreaking documentary Jaffa: The Orange’s Clockwork, as well as the UK premiere of Kamal Al-Jafari’s astonishing Port of Memory.
A session dedicated to militant cinemas of anti-imperial resistance will bring together rarely screened work from Palestine, Japan, Lebanon, and Vietnam; further thematic sessions will highlight new video art, profile iconoclastic Palestinian women now and in history, and examine the aftermath of last year’s war on the Gaza Strip. The festival will be complemented by a photo exhibition by Palestinian artists Noel Jabbour and Taysir Batniji, curated by the PFF and ArtSchool Palestine and on view in the Barbican Foyers.
Following the week of screenings at the Barbican, the Festival continues for an additional week at SOAS, University of London. See www.palestinefilm.org for more details.
Click here to download the full festival programme.
Friday, 30th April to Friday 14th May 2010
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
For further information or to book tickets please contact The Barbican on:
T: 020 7638 4141
E: tickets@barbican.org.uk
W: www.barbican.org.uk/film