Monthly Archives: August 2011

Dates: August 8-12, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: 5.30pm
Entrance: Free

Presented by the Kenya Palestine Solidarity Committee in partnership with Alliance Francaise, Fahamu (Networks for Social Justice), Pambazuka (Pan-African Voices for Freedom and Justice), the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Kenya and Solidarity Network Kenya.

Main feature: PLO – History of a Revolution by Aljazeera
Time: 6pm and from 5.30 – 6pm, a six part series

Date: Aug. 8, 2011
WALLS OF SHAME by Thierry Denis & Guy Ratovondrahona (52min)
The fall of the Berlin Wall gave us hope for the end of divisions. However, 20 years later, many walls be it of concrete, metal or wire have been erected throughout the world.
In the USA, in Israel, in Europe, and in many other parts of the world. In our so called global world, these walls are for us the evidence of a global crisis.

Date: Aug. 9 2011
LIFE IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE: Eyewitness stories & photos (59 min)
The film provides an excellent introduction to the occupation in Palestine and the non-violent movement for freedom and equality in the Holy Land.

Date: Aug. 10, 2011
LEMON TREE 106min, with English subtitles
The director tackles the bitter Israel-Palestinian conflict by focusing on how it impinges on one Arab widow (the wonderful Hiam Abbass) who tries to scrape a living from her grove of lemon trees. Her new neighbour, who unfortunately for her is the Israeli defence minister and his wife, is advised by his security goons that the next door lemon grove constitutes a security risk, and an order is given for its chopping down. The widow decides against all odds to fight the decision, eventually taking it all the way to the Supreme Court.

Date: Aug. 11 2011
THE SYRIAN BRIDE 1h37, with English subtitles
In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married to Tallel, a television comedian who works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home.

Date: Aug. 12, 2011
GAZA HOSPITAL 1h24, with English subtitles
The Gaza Hospital in Beirut is adjacent to the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila; it used to be a vanguard health center run by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. The Hospital witnessed and endured the Israeli invasion in 1982 and the War of the Camps. This documentary switches between past and present as it traces the history of this building and the stories of the people who live or have worked therein.

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