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(photo: Anthology Film Archives, New York using a still from Land Day by Ghaleb Shaath)

Curation
13.-19.6.2025 at the Anthology Film Archives New York (USA)
Politics of the Image: Collaborations Between the Palestinian Liberation Movement and the Two Germanies
This series sheds light on the little known and rarely explored cooperation in film and TV between the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the two Germanies during the last decades of the Cold War. In the 1970s and 80s, the film groups and cultural organizations of the PLO worked closely with film institutions in the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) and with filmmakers from the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). These collaborations continue to have an impact today, continue


Film Talk
Tuesday, 29.4.2025 at 7.45pm at Lichtblick Kino Berlin
Introduction and conversation FROM GROUND ZERO by 22 directors from Gaza. An event organized by Lichtblick and Exberliner. In English Language.


Panel
25.4.2025 um 13.30 bei European Media Art Festival Osnabrück (Germany)
As part of the Talks program: I could swear my face was touching stone - Technologies
Since the first generation of Palestinian filmmakers started working prior to the Nkaba in 1948, the images they made were subjet to systematic destruction and looting. Yet this has not been the only reason for continue
In conversation: Anais Farine and Irit Neidhardt, moderated by Florian Wüst


Film talk
March 26, 2025 at Cine Arab Freiburg
On the short film compilation From Ground Zero (Palestine 2024, 112 min, Arabic with German subtitles).


(photo: Nueremberg Human Rights Film Festival)

Moderation
on February 20, 2025, at 6:00 PM at the Filmhaus Nürnberg
Film screening of From Ground Zero: The Untold Stories from Gaza, followed by a discussion with Rashid Mashrawi, the initiator of the film compilation. Moderation: Irit Neidhardt


(photo: Freunde der Arabischen Kunst und Kultur e.V.)

Film talk
Thursday, January 30th, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. at the Film Days of the Mediterranean in the Karlstorkino Heidelberg
Film discussion about From Ground Zero. The untold Stories from Gaza (Palestine 2024), in collaboration with the Friends of Arab Art and Culture e.V., moderated by Nadja Moudarres-Madani and Alina Papagiannaki-Sönmez


Film talk
On January 18th, 2025 at 7 p.m. in the Lister Turm
Screening of the short film compilation From Ground Zero (Palestine 2024) by the Palestine Initiative Hannover with introduction and discussion.