Picture Palestine: Ruptured Chronologies
Combined programme
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IFFR 2017
A filmic political timeline that intersects with the tumultuous developments from the First Intifada and the Oslo Accords to the uncertain present and a speculative future.
In this combined programme
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Introduction to the End of an Argument
Snippets from Western films, documentaries and news coverage are woven together to expose their racial bias when depicting the Middle East, Arab cultu -
20 Handshakes for Peace
The Oslo Accords handshake between Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Bill Clinton repeated 20 times; tainted by countless shattered hopes. -
Like Twenty Impossibles
A Palestinian film crew is stopped at a checkpoint. A visual poem and a narrative about the fragmentation of a people that also questions the… -
And Yet My Mask Is Powerful
A richly layered film in which 3D-printed Neolithic masks worn in destroyed Palestinian villages in Israel become a counterpoint to the dominant image