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2011
University Film Programs
Week of November 7 and November 14
All screenings are
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The BPFF co-presents these films with the Students
for Justice in Palestine at Boston University, University of
Massachusetts, Boston, Northeastern University,
Harvard Kennedy School Palestine Caucus,
Palestine@MIT
and Clark University Students for Palestinian Rights (CUSPR)
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ROADMAP TO
APARTHEID
PREVIEW
SCREENING
By Ana Nogueira
and Eron Davidson
2011 |
Documentary | 95 mins
There are
many lessons to draw from the South African experience of
Apartheid relevant to conflicts all over the world. Roadmap
to Apartheid explores in detail the apartheid comparison as
it is used in the enduring Israel-Palestine conflict. As
much an historical document of the rise and fall of
apartheid, the film shows us why many Palestinians feel they
are living in an apartheid system today, and why an
increasing number of people around the world agree with
them.
Featuring
interviews with South Africans, Israelis and Palestinians,
Roadmap to Apartheid winds its way through the West Bank,
Gaza Strip, and inside Israel moving from town to town and
issue to issue to show why the apartheid analogy is being
used with increasing potency. It analyzes the similar
historical narratives of the Jewish people and the Afrikaaners to the tight relationship the two governments
shared during the apartheid years, and everything in
between. The effectiveness of the Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions movement that helped end apartheid in South Africa
is also compared to its effectiveness in the Israeli context
to end the occupation, and bring justice and dignity to all.
Trailer
here:
http://roadmaptoapartheid.org/
SCREENING AT:
Boston
University - Students for Justice in Palestine
Tuesday
November 8th, 7:00 pm
Sargent, Room 102 (635 Commonwealth Ave., Boston)
University of
Massachusetts, Boston - Students of Justice in Palestine
Thursday November 17,
5:00 pm
Campus Center
Room 2540 (second floor)
Harvard
University - Harvard Kennedy School Palestine Caucus
November 29,
6:00pm [International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian
People]
TAUBMAN, T-275
Northeastern
University - Students for Justice in Palestine
Tuesday November 15,
7:00pm
109 Robinson
Hall
Clark
University - Clark University Students for Palestinian Rights
Wednesday
November 16, 7:00pm
Sackler 122 |
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EL MURO
By Greg
Rainoff
2010 | Documentary | 85 mins US -
Mexico
Q/A with Gabriel Camacho American
Service Committee (AFSC) follows screenings.
"The governments of Israel and USA are
working together to build walls of Apartheid, walls of
division, walls of death ..." quote from the film.
"Besides the superficial similarities
between Palestine and Mexico, we need to uncover the
structural patterns of oppression that are common in every
struggle for self-determination and national liberation
movement against colonization and occupation." Two Walls One Struggle - Gabriel
Camacho American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
El Muro
shows the human and environmental consequences of
the border fence between Tijuana and San Diego. Along the
way it visits the reasons for the fence with local and
global perspectives on its effectiveness. Migrants,
deportees, minutemen, coyotes, environmentalists, writers,
and academics all lend their experience and perspective in
terms of human rights, democracy, NAFTA, globalization, and
the destruction of the Tijuana estuary, the last standing
unobstructed estuarine wetland left in Southern California.
SCREENING AT:
Harvard
University - Harvard Kennedy School Palestine Caucus
Thursday
November 17, 7:00 pm
LITTAUER L332
Coming soon
to:
MIT -
Palestine@MIT
Brandeis
University - Students for Justice in Palestine |
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UM KAMEL'S TENT
By Bashar Hamdan
2010 |
Documentary | 50 mins
Stories
from
El Jarrah
neighborhood in East Jerusalem, focusing on house evictions
and illegal seizures of Palestinian homes. One story
is that of Hajjeh Um Kamel Al-Kurd, who erected a tent near
her seized home of over 50 years in protest,
her story became a symbol of many Palestinian families
threatened with eviction in Jerusalem.
SCREENING AT:
Clark University
- Clark University Students for Palestinian Rights
Thursday
Novermber 17, 7:00 pm
Sackler 122 |
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JORDAN VALLEY
BLUES preceded by FILLING POINT
JORDAN VALLEY
BLUES
By
Lifesource.ps
2011 |
Documentary | 43 mins
Meet Palestinian farmers living in the Jordan Valley, who
are forced to abandon their land due to lack of water and
harassment from the Israeli military. One tests his
entrepreneurship in his home village; the other accepts work
in an illegal Israeli colony, sacrificing his rights as a
worker and so much more.
FILLING POINT
By
Pietro Bellorini
2010 | Documentary | 15 mins
After years of negotiations, As-Samu’a was permitted to
access some limited additional quantities of water, but on
the condition that this water not be distributed to
residents through their existing water network. 30
rainwater-harvesting cisterns have been isolated from
Imneizel village by the Segregation Wall. Israeli violations
of Palestinians’ human right to water are making it
increasingly difficult for Palestinians to access the basic
necessities for life and to stay on their land.
SCREENING AT:
Clark University
- Clark University Students for Palestinian Rights
Tuesday November
15, 7:00 pm
Sackler 122
Coming soon
to:
Brandeis
University - Students for Justice in Palestine |
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ISRAEL VS ISRAEL
By Terje
Carlsson
2010 |
Documentary | 58 mins
Director present
One
grandmother, one rabbi, one anarchist and one ex-soldier –
four Israelis trying to put an end to the Israeli occupation
of the Palestinian Territories.
The
documentary Israel vs Israel is a film about Israeli peace
activists who in both words and actions take a stand again
40 years of occupation and illegal settlements.
This fight for peace divides Israel in Terje Carlssons new
documentary.
Trailer
here:
http://www.israelvsisrael.com/
SCREENING AT:
Boston
University - Students for Justice in Palestine
Tuesday,
November 15th, 5:00 pm
College of Arts and Sciences, Room B36 (725 Commonwealth
Ave., Boston)
Brandeis
University - Students for Justice in Palestine
Monday, November
14th, 8:00 pm
Hassenfeld Feldberg Lounge
(Upper Sherman) |
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GAZASTROPHE -
THE DAY AFTER
By Samir
Abdalla and Kheredine Mabrouk
2009 |
Documentary | 95 MIN.
When a ceasefire
was declared after Israel’s recent war on Gaza (Operation Cast Lead,
December 2008-January 2009), the directors entered the Gaza Strip
immediately and documented, together with the Palestinian Human Rights
Centre, the extent of the "Gaza-strophe."
SCREENING AT:
Boston
University - Students for Justice in Palestine
Wednesday,
November 9th, 7:00 pm
Kenmore Classroom Building, Room 106 (565 Commonwealth Ave.,
Boston)
Northeastern
University - Students for Justice in Palestine
November 16,
7:00 pm
109 Robinson
Hall |
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DEGREES OF
INCARCERATION
2009 |
Documentary | 59 mins
By Amahl
Bishara and Nidal Al-Azraq
Directors
present
Since 1967, in the occupied territories alone, Israel has
detained or imprisoned over 700,000
Palestinians—approximately 20% of the total Palestinian
population in these areas. The majority of those detained
are male, meaning that the number constitutes approximately
40% of the total male Palestinian population in the
territories. Today, between 8,000 and 10,000 Palestinians
are serving sentences for political charges. Hundreds of
Palestinian prisoners have served more than 15 years in
prison and dozens have served more than 20 years.
This documentary explores the toll that the high rate of
imprisonment takes on a West Bank Palestinian refugee camp,
a family, and individual lives. It also covers some of the
innovative methods Palestinians have used to help youth
prepare and cope with this universal aspect of coming of age
under military occupation. As such, the film sheds light on
an issue of enormous importance to Palestinian society that
is little known or understood.
SCREENING AT:
Boston
University - Students for Justice in Palestine
Thursday,
November 10th, 7:00 pm
College of Arts and Sciences, Room 211 (725 Commonwealth
Ave., Boston) |
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FULL COURT
PRESS: Israel, Berkeley, and the Divestment Resolution
By
Anne Paxton
2011 | Documentary | 25 mins
In 2010, UC Berkeley saw the nation's first extended, public
debates over a resolution advocating divestment from
companies militarily supporting Israel's occupation of
Palestine and the blockade of Gaza. This film explores the
controversy as a re-enactment of the international
anti-apartheid movement that transformed South Africa.
SCREENING AT:
Coming soon to:
Clark University
- Clark University Students for Palestinian Rights |
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HIP HOP IS
BIGGER THAN THE OCCUPATION
By
Existence is Resistance and Nana Dankwa
2010 |
Documentary | 90 mins
The film
documents a 10-day musical tour through Palestine to teach
resistance through the arts. Staying in the heart of Balata
Refugee
Camp at the Yafa Cultural Center in Nablus, the group
witnessed and
experienced the day-to-day struggle of Palestinian life.
Trailer
here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUOQMDXjnhM
SCREENING AT:
MIT -
Palestine @MIT
Sunday November
13, 3:00 pm
Building 4-231,
MIT, Cambridge
directions:
http://web.mit.edu/mitdlbc/www/directions/4.html
Discussion
with Shadia Mansour and members of
Existence is Resistance follows screening.
Also see details
for
show featuring artists in the film same day @ 8:00 pm |
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Slingshot Hip
Hop
By Jackie
Salloum
2008 |
Documentary | 82 mins
Slingshot
Hip Hop weaves together the stories of young Palestinians
living in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank as they use hip
hop to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty.
Salloum follows these young artists as they grapple with the
day-to-day physical boundaries imposed by the occupation,
not to mention the more subtle forms of division that
conspire to restrict their lives. From internal checkpoints
and the Separation Wall to gender norms and generational
differences, this is the story of young people crossing the
borders that separate them. Sling Shot is a rousing film not
to be missed. Critic Justin Chang states “Salloum…pounds
home the point that art is more constructive than violence”
(Variety). An official selection at the 2008 Sundance Film
Festival.
SCREENING AT:
University of
Massachusetts, Boston - Students of Justice in Palestine
Wedneday
November 9, 5:00 pm
Campus Center
Room # 2540 (second floor) |
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HARD BALL
By Suha Arraf
2006 |
Documentary | 52 mins
Sakhnin is a
small Arab town inside Israel where life is far from normal.
Despite hardships, Sakhnin, like the rest of the world, is
mad about football and has produced an edgy, hungry football
team that managed, against all odds, to win Israel's
national cup in 2004. As the drama of the new football
season unfolds, Hardball reveals why the underdog team has
attracted such a devoted and fervent following among
thousands of Arab fans across the country.
SCREENING AT:
Northeastern
University - Students for Justice in Palestine
November 17,
7:00 pm
320 Curry
Student Center |
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