Sheffield Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid is pleased to have the opportunity to welcome Palestine Film Institute (PFI) delegation of film makers who will be show casing their work at Sheffield DocFest on Saturday 13th June.
Screening: Life Support
We will have another opportunity to hear Saeed Taji Farouky who spoke so powerfully in Sheffield last year, he will be joined by film directors Safaa Khatib , Gaia Caramassa and Marta Miskaryan together with film producers May Jabreen , Maria Eugenia Lombardi, Sanjana Selva and Alice Hughes.
The PFI Showcase is collaboration with Sheffield DocFest and supported by the British Council. Times of the Showcasing and times of screening of films about Palestine are below.
Please come and meet the delegation at the train station rally Friday 12th June at 5pm
Their show case will take place:
Saturday, June 13, 10:00 – 11:00, The Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield City Centre
- Different Colors of Sabir
Synopsis: As the filmmaker’s father – a prominent Palestinian political
leader from the Galilee – is convicted of “incitement to violence and
terrorism”, his daughter begins filming, capturing family life and
resistance before the Israeli state possibly returns him to prison.
(Director: Safaa Khatib, Producers: May Jabareen & María Eugenia
Lombardi – Countries: Palestine, Italy)
- The Story We Broke
Palestinian journalist at Columbia University must navigate the
tension between objectivity and identity as she documents a student
movement that mirrors her own struggle for truth and belonging.
(Directors: Gaia Caramazza & Jude Taha ,Producers: Kira Boden-
Gologorsky, Kitty Hu, Sanjna Selva – Countries: USA, Jordan)
- Unboxing Gaza
Synopsis: A Palestinian artist discovers his grandfather’s forgotten photo
archive from 1940s Gaza. What begins as a family heirloom becomes a fight
to preserve the memory of a place on the brink of erasure.
(Director: Marta Miskaryan , Producer: Alice Hughes , Country: UK)
Screenings of Palestinian films
Life Support: A film about a group of international doctors breach the blockade of Gaza. What they find is the calculated dismantling of life itself.
(Director: Daniele Rugo, Countries: United Kingdom, Palestine, Qatar)
- Saturday, 13 June: World Premiere 17:45 – 19:53 at Showroom Cinema (Screen 4). Followed by conversation with director Daniele Rugo and protagonists Prof. Nick Maynard and Dr. Ana Jeelani. Moderated by Asif Kapadia.
- Sunday, 14 June: 13:15 – 15:08 at Curzon (Screen 2). Includes a Q&A session with director Daniele Rugo
American Doctor: Three American doctors volunteer in Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals. The humanitarian catastrophe they witness compels them to carry their fight far beyond the wards and back to Washington.
(Director: Poh Si Teng, Countries: USA, Palestine, Qatar, Malaysia)
- Thursday, June 11 at 12:45 PM: Showroom Cinema – Screen 2. Followed by a Q&A
- Friday, June 12 at 3:45 PM: Curzon Sheffield – Screen 1. Followed by a Q&A
- Sunday, June 14 at 8:45 PM: Curzon Sheffield – Screen 3. Followed by a Q&A
Landscapes of Memory: An American filmmaker travels to Berlin to confront her family’s Holocaust history, only to be detained at a pro-Palestinian demonstration and charged with antisemitism.
(Director: Leah Galant, Countries: USA, Germany)
- International Premiere: Thu, Jun 11th, 6:00 PM @ Showroom – Screen 1
- Sat, Jun 13th, 8:45 PM @ Curzon – Screen 3
