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Aking Senakulo dir. Jela Dela Peña

Screened in March as part of Monday Night Tales: Women & Queer Stories pt I

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A magical Substance Flows into me dir. Jumana Manna

Screened in Feb 2024 as part of Monday Night Tales: Palestinian Narratives II

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Strawberry dir. Aida Ka’adan screened as part of Monday Night Tales: Palestinian Narratives pt. II

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Your father was born 100 years old and so was the Nakba dir. Razan Alsalah

Screened in Jan 2024 as part of Monday Night Tales: Palestinian Narratives I

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Neo Nahda dir. May Ziadé

Screened as part of Monday Night Tales : Women & Queer Stories pt I May 2024

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Aking Senakulo Dir. Jela Dela Peña

In a church, the golden light hits a figure’s wing scars. Their rosary sways from one hand, as sounds of leather against skin rings throughout the air. As they reach the altar on their knees, their hands come together in lieu of prayer. They find themselves transported to a place where they share food offerings and intimate touches with another being.

Aking Senakulo  explores themes of queerness, isolation, belonging, and indigenous Filipino ancestry.

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hôtel monterey (chantal akerman, 1973)

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Anonymous. Still Life of Textiles, Fans and Wood Carved Frame, c. 1915.

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A study of a red double–flowered poppy, India, Mughal, Deccan or possibly Kishangarh, 17th century. Gouache on paper.

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Palestinian Narratives II Monday Feb 19 2024, Poster

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Playing Feb 19th As part of Monday Night Tales: Global Narratives through Cinema

new-to-me #990 - Strawberry (2017)

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Strawberry, 2017 (dir. Aida Ka’adan)

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As a Palestinian in the Diaspora, I have watched and experienced the perpetual destruction of the Gaza Strip throughout the course of my life—as it has throughout my parents’ lives and my grandparents’ lives. With the privilege of distance coupled with the privilege of having access to visiting throughout my childhood into adulthood, I had the distinct feeling that it was regarded as a territory disconnected from the rest of the world. A place we get to watch on the news but most are not allowed into. After a 10 year absence from visiting, I returned in 2012, and was shocked by how degraded it had become and even more by how much people had adapted to such inhumane living conditions. Life had clearly become only about survival, people were moving on and had given up on humanity to rescue them. I felt distinctly, that civilization had failed in Gaza.  

My visit in 2012 also coincided with a war—the least damaging of the three wars in the last 10 years—and I saw first hand how quickly people adapted to war, and then post-war. I saw how necessary it was to forget, in order to survive. I felt quite devastated by this experience and with the realization that it might be time to say goodbye to a kind of hope I had held on to for my entire life, that the place and it’s people would ever be free. I was also angry that the destruction of Gaza was seen as disconnected from the rest of the world. To imagine that civilization in Europe or America were somehow not tied to the erasure of the Palestinians.

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I have always been curious about the subjective experience of political landscapes does to our understanding of ourselves as individuals, as collectives, and our understanding of history. With Ouroboros, I was interested in weaving together disparate landscapes and peoples and histories, and to ask us to see them as part of an endless cycle of destruction and renewal, doomed to repeat itself as the process of forgetting seemed to be the only way forward.

Basma Alsharif on the inspiration behind her film Ouroboros

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Monday Night Tales : Global Narratives through Cinema

Monthly screenings at Sala fenix Barcelona

Welcome / Bienvenidxs a Monday Night Tales: Narrativas Globales through cinema

Un ciclo de cine de co-creación con @revive_socialartproducer

🎞️ Un programa filmico que profundiza en diversos temas, géneros, países y voces. Centrado en el cine de la diáspora, independiente, experimental, documental, videoarte, pero también en las historias que nos rodean. Cada sesión contará con un invitadx, cineasta/crew o miembrx de la comunidad para compartir processes después de la proyección.

📽️ Nuestros dos primeros eventos vienen con el apoyo de @anothergazejournal mientras sumergimos en las narrativas Palestinas con Razan Alsalah, Basma Alsharif, Jumana Manna, Oraib Toukan, Aida Ka'adan y Muhammad Nour ElKhairy….

Con la solidaridad en el corazón, pasamos la tarde del lunes escuchando, mirando y compartiendo 🍉🍉

Para preparar esta iniciativa, aceptamos todos los donativos, con una entrada de 5 euros para garantizar la accesibilidad de todxs y, para mostrar nuestra solidaridad, dedicamos un parte de la recaudado a e-SIMS for GAZA. *La compra de eSims permite a la población de Gaza conectarse con el mundo exterior, comunicarse con sus familias y también mostrar lo que ocurre dentro de Gaza.

🖤Estamos muy contentos de proyectarlo y compartirlo en la Sala Fenix @salafenix Lunes 22 de enero, 19.00 horas Entradas: 5 €