Naser Khweis in conversation with Australian broadcasters on the film, Palestinian cinema, and Cultural Media’s mission to bring Arab stories to Australian audiences.
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Audio Interview
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Annemarie Jacir is one of Palestine's most acclaimed filmmakers. Across more than sixteen films, her work has premiered at Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, Rotterdam and Toronto, and all three of her features have been Palestine's official Academy Award submission.
Her 2003 short Like Twenty Impossible was the first Arab short film selected at Cannes and went on to become an Academy Award finalist. In 2007 she directed Salt of This Sea, the first feature by a Palestinian woman director, which won the FIPRESCI Critics Award and fourteen further international prizes. When I Saw You took Best Asian Film at the Berlinale, and Wajib (2017) won 36 awards worldwide.
Founder of Philistine Films, Jacir works as a director, screenwriter, editor and producer, and has sat on juries at Cannes, Sundance and Berlin. She is a member of AMPAS, BAFTA and the Asia Pacific Screen Academy. Palestine 36 is her fourth feature and her most ambitious to date.
Palestine 36 is now screening at the @theatreroyalcastlemaine and @statecinemahobart
EXTRA SESSION ADDED @dendy_newtown
Followed by an in-person conversation with former Australian Foreign Minister and former Premier of NSW Bob Carr and local academics.
TONIGHT ONLY
September 9 @ 6:15pm
Don`t miss our special screening @dendy_newtown tonight
Wednesday, September 9 @ 6:15pm
Followed by an in-person conversation with former Australian Foreign Minister and former Premier of NSW Bob Carr and local academics
`From the land, we grew.
Our river birthed creeds and bloodlines
Our rhythm has always been
die standing
In spite of wretched planes
and all that life fractures,
we remain.
Even if skies crush our land
our song sings on`
- Saleem Al-Naffar
Palestine 36 is in cinemas now.
Bob Carr and historian Dr Stephen Pascoe, in conversation after Palestine 36.
Annemarie Jacir`s film returns to 1936, when Palestinians launched the longest anti-colonial uprising in the history of the British Empire. Carr and Pascoe stay on afterwards to talk about the revolt Britain crushed, and the century that followed.
Wed 9 Sept, film starts 6:15pm
Dendy Newtown, tickets limited
Link in bio
#Palestine36 #AnnemarieJacir #PalestinianCinema #Newtown #SydneyEvents
Saturday 5th September @ 3:30pm
@dendy_newtown
Q&A with Writer/Director @annamariajacir
In conversation with @jan__fran
Don`t miss this special screening.
Tix in bio.
When Yasmine Al Massri first read the script for Palestine 36, she asked Annemarie Jacir about her own character.
Did we have women like this?
Kholoud, the journalist she plays, is drawn from real Palestinian women. Educated, political, writing against British rule in 1936. Al Massri had never been taught they existed.
That is the thing the film is arguing about. Not just what happened in 1936, but who was allowed to know it happened.
The British filmed everything in Palestine.
Jacir fought her producers to colourise that newsreel footage and put it in the film, at a cost the production could barely carry. "Those are our people that we`re seeing on the screen."
The film has since been banned from screening in Jerusalem. It is set before 1948. There are no Israelis in it.
"Our voices are still threatening. Our story is threatening."
Palestine 36 is in cinemas now. Find a session near you at palestine36.au
Interview by Nadine Whitney for The Curb. Link in first comment.
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The haunting score of PALESTINE 36 comes from Australian-born composer Ben Frost @ethermachines
Best heard in the cinema, at full volume.
Palestine 36 is in cinemas now for a limited time only so save your seat now, tickets and screenings via link in bio.
